Playboy cover from April '55

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

January 07, 2024, 12:03 PM

airsoft guy

January 86 is a pretty boring cover, the Playmate of the Month is cute though, Sherry Arnett, she looks like January of 1986.

January 07, 2024, 01:45 PM

wishfull thinker

I confess. I never read a Playboy magazine in my whole life.

January 07, 2024, 01:57 PM

Lunasee

quote:
Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
I confess. I never read a Playboy magazine in my whole life.

I have never read one either. I have skimmed through a few hundred though.

January 07, 2024, 02:12 PM

YooperSigs

I was a subscriber for many years. PB often had interviews, investigative journalism, art (Vargas and Neiman) which I liked as much as nekkid ladies.
As time went on, it seemed to lose a lot of the more positive aspects in an effort to compete with Hustler and Penthouse. Have not even looked at an issue in years now. Some recent documentaries on the dark side of PB and Hefner make me glad I no longer subscribe.

January 07, 2024, 03:19 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:

I was a subscriber for many years. PB often had interviews, investigative journalism, . . .

Yeah, I knew a lot of guys who bought the magazine just to read the articles.

January 07, 2024, 03:27 PM

goose5

One of the best comedy/fiction stories I ever read was out of that magazine. I guy goes through how he developed a computerized golf ball with liquid fuel center. He used the Spalding Dot and turned it into the Spalding Exhaust Pipe, and rode that all the way to the final round of the US Open at Pebble Beach. Paired with Lee Trevino when he was discovered and had to play the 18th par five with regular golf balls. And, hilarity ensued.

But, of course, other considerations were inspected before the reading.

January 07, 2024, 06:59 PM

arfmel

A picture is worth a thousand words.

January 07, 2024, 07:03 PM

OneWheelDrive

Best thing about being in the Boy Scouts was the paper drives. There were always a few Playboys in with the newspapers.

January 08, 2024, 10:15 AM

golddot

Coincidentally I started re watching that series on Amazon this weekend, if you have not watched it I highly recommend it it's very informative. I also did some research recently about trying to purchase the entire collection from people most of those collections that people have beginning from day one to the last issue can range anywhere between 1500 and $3000. To be able to sit down when I retired start with the first addition and go all the way to the last and read them for cover to cover I can only imagine what a time capsule that would be right now

January 08, 2024, 02:33 PM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I was a subscriber for many years. PB often had interviews, investigative journalism, art (Vargas and Neiman) which I liked as much as nekkid ladies.
As time went on, it seemed to lose a lot of the more positive aspects in an effort to compete with Hustler and Penthouse. Have not even looked at an issue in years now. Some recent documentaries on the dark side of PB and Hefner make me glad I no longer subscribe.

as was I, wife actually bought the subscription for me,

I think I still have every issue from 1980 to 2000, and maybe a few others,

meanwhile,

sept 63

https://www.iplayboy.com/issue/19630901