Secrets of Playboy

Contestants share what the 2002 reality show was truly like, how the experience changed them, and how being associated with Playboy fulfilled dreams and also caused heartache.

After a divorce in the late 90s, Hugh Hefner became a bachelor again, and the era of the seven girlfriends emerged.

In 1977 Playboy introduced pictorials featuring often barely-legal college women.

Sondra Theodore and her daughter explore their dramatically different versions of life at the Playboy Mansion as they work to heal the trauma in their complicated relationship.

Posing for Playboy seems like a dream come true for many young women, but the allure of fame and fortune comes with a steep price.

The sports world is often criticized for not only underpaying and undervaluing female athletes, but these women are also notoriously sexualized.

Playboy has long been known for its pictorials of working women. Perhaps none of these features were more tantalizing to their readers than those of women in uniform.

While Playboy usually featured a specific standard of beauty in its magazine, it occasionally disrupted that norm by showcasing models not typically seen within its pages.