Playboy (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Playboy Enterprises International Inc
List Price: $72.88
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Rating:  67 reviews
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B000HWY1PG
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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Editorial Reviews Who Reads Playboy?
Provocative and informative, Playboy is America's best-selling men's magazine. Playboy is read by more than 10.3 million people in the U.S. - of which two million are women. The magazine is primarily aimed at men in their twenties and thirties, but is read by men and women of all ages.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Whatever goes on between a man's ears is a convenient way to sum up the content of Playboy. Prominent among its features are the pictorials, which showcase women ranging from the girl next door to world-famous celebrities, but also includes sports, entertainment, politics, social trends, developments in the areas of sex and romance, short fiction and compelling articles on behalf of a wide variety of subjects. - Pictorials: Featuring the world's most beautiful women, as captured by some of the world's most talented photographers.
- ManTrack: New cars, sporting equipment, technology, furniture, travel destinations and other consumer goods.
- After Hours: A bemused tour d'horizon of current culture.
- Forum: Opinion and argument about political and social developments, often focusing on issues of personal freedom and expression.
- The Playboy Advisor: A column in which readers' questions about modern living, including love, sex, fashion, technology, etiquette and other topics are answered.
In each issue, Playboy features an in-depth interview with an important figure (recent subjects include Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Mathew McConaughey, Steve Nash, Mark Cuban, Tina Fey, Kanye West, Jay Z, Matt Groening, Gov. Bill Richardson, Arianna Huffington, Bill O'Reilly, and Thomas L. Friedman); and a shorter, lighter interview called 20Q (recent subjects include Danica Patrick, Charles Barkley, Jack Black, Fergie, Paul Rudd and Rachel Bilson). Playboy delivers news-making and substantive journalism like "Death and Dishonor," the story of the brutal home-front murder of an Iraq War veteran that was the basis for the movie "In the Valley of Elah," and "Gunning for the Big Guy," an exclusive look into the story of BALCO and the illegal use of steroids in baseball. Other recent features include a joint profile of comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman; a feature article about Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange; a profile of LAPD chief Bill Bratton; and an article about sexual repression in fundamentalist Iran. Each issue also includes a piece of fiction, spotlighting the best of established and emerging talents. Past Issues: Contributors: Playboy's roster of contributors over the course of its history is second to none. It includes Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hunter S. Thompson, William F. Buckley Jr., Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Cheever, Arthur C. Clarke, George Plimpton, Ray Bradbury and Shel Silverstein. Active contributors include Gore Vidal, Stephen King, John Updike, T.C. Boyle, Jonathan Safran Foer, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Dawkins, Jeff Greenfield, Denis Johnson, Jimmy Breslin, Christopher Buckley, Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover, Jim Harrison and Nadine Gordimer. Magazine Layout The magazine offers a pleasing balance of attractive photography, lively illustration, and well-designed text. Comparisons to Similar Magazines: Playboy informs its entire editorial product (articles, photographs, and illustrations) with intelligence, wit, and sophistication. They provide readers with a unique editorial mix, including lifestyle service information, entertainment, interviews, politics, advice, women, sports, news features, and short fiction. Playboy is an American icon. Smart, edgy and a bit provocative, Playboy has been the leading men's magazine for nearly the entirety of its 55 year existence, surpassing and outlasting all competitors and imitators. Awards Playboy has long been recognized for its design, art and writing, receiving more than 1,600 awards. Most recently, Playboy won eight design awards from Creativity, encompassing illustration, design and editorial photography. In 2007, Playboy was also nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction.
Product Description
For men's entertainment. Contains humor, cartoons and party jokes. Revealing interviews with celebrated personalities, special insights into the world of sports, politics, business, and the arts, tips on fashion, lifestyle, movies, books and music and photos of beautiful women.
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Articles and reviews for men about contemporary life.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 62 more reviews...
 Playboy: The Title is Misleading December 26, 2002
Martin Asiner (jersey city, nj United States)
80 out of 137 found this review helpful
For more than 40 years,Hugh Hefner has marketed his men's magazine to appeal to the libidinous side of men. Based on the financial success of his magazine driven empire, he has been hugely successful. Yes, PLAYBOY, with its glossy photos of beautiful nude and flawless women does do exactly that, but early on, Hef must have realized that if all he had to differentiate his magazine from the other similar pulps of the day was naked ladies, then he knew that his tenure as a pipe-smoking lord of his boudoir would be temporary. What he did was to insert a philosophy of life that would appeal subliminally to his male readers that would do far more than just present a one-diminensional object of masturbatory fantasies. Instead, Hef went to the literary and social route that addressed a wide range of pressing issues, not all of which dealt with sex. Over the years, PLAYBOY has been the leader in championing the very issues that perplexed the Founding Fathers: the freedom to read what we want, worship how we please, and decide for ourselves the legality of what went on between consenting adults behind closed doors. Further, Hef did not ignore less serious, but equally absorbing issues like sports, literature, and fashion. Yes, the very nature of PLAYBOY has, over the decades, made it an easy target for cheap shots by various elements of the lunatic fringe that on the one hand trumpet the virtues of their own cloistered life style but seek to deny Hef a platform to trumpet his. In the final analysis, PLAYBOY has come to be the very essence, if not a sanitized version, of the American Dream that still draws millions of immigrants to seek out our shores. Who would have thought that sexy pictures of naked ladies could accomplish what legions of high school English teachers have failed to do over the decades: to draw the American male into the far more interesting world of the mind?
I love this magazine! February 8, 2002
63 out of 75 found this review helpful
If there is one magazine you should put on your "must read" list, it's PLAYBOY. I'm proud to bring it into my home each and every month. PLAYBOY opens my eyes to fascinating new stuff that's fun to read. It helps me escape and frees my mind from terrorists, the economy, war, crime and all the other ills of the world. The cartoons, women, articles, nights out with Hef, nude celebrities, advice on sex, interviews, points-of-view, are pure enjoyment. There has never been a magazine as cool as PLAYBOY - and never will be. Maxim and FHM can't touch it! The women are hotter in PLAYBOY, the writing is better, everything about it outclasses the competition. It's the original and only men's magazine. You knew what you were doing from the beginning Hef, and you know what you're doing now. Everything a man has ever wanted in a magazine is inside PLAYBOY. I LOVE THIS MAGAZINE!
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Unhappy Customer (Florida)
48 out of 66 found this review helpful
If you order this item expect many postcards to your home offering you pornographic DVD's.
The postcards are not discreet & your personal information not as safe as i for one hoped.
THE ARTICLES ARE GOOD-THE PICS ARE BETTER June 18, 2002
35 out of 57 found this review helpful
For those who actually buy the magazine to "read the articles"; you're lying. The women in this magazine are beautiful, sexy and smooth!!!
I admit I find myself reading some of the articles (which is not very often) but only when they attract my attention away from the sexy red head, sultry brunette or the devine blond.
The articles are in depth and well though out. The lay outs of the women are always tastefully done and with a lot of respect to the women. Unlike Hustler, Playboy does not make the women look like trash. The women of Playboy are clean and beautiful. The kind of women you can bring home to mom; and then run away to Australia or the Bahamas.
The magazine is enjoyable for both genders (I have heard even straight women read it-probably to see what their boyfriends/husbands are looking at).
For me being a man, who enjoys beauty in all of its forms, and being a photographer; I can appreciate the tasteful art work done in the pictorials.
Keep up the beautiful work Playboy.
Five stars, of course! What else? November 17, 2001
34 out of 52 found this review helpful
Playboy is the best. Men either read it or wish that they did. Best erotic pictorials of women anywhere. Incredibly sexy, high class photography, what we really like, basic needs stuff. One issue is usually enough to make a man a life-time reader. But nothing hurtful or degrading. Each issue features a Playmate of the Month (always very memorable) plus two additional pictorials. No one really buys it for the articles, but good engaging writing, too: reviews, current events, interviews. Go ahead. You've wanted to for a long time. One click will do it. Subscribe. You won't be sorry.
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