playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois bởi Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into playboy Enterprises, Inc., reaching into every form of media. playboy is one of the world's best known brands. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of playboy are published worldwide.

The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various các bài viết on fashion, sports, consumer goods, and public figures. It also has short fiction bởi hàng đầu, đầu trang literary writers, such as Arthur C. Clarke,...

Playboy's original tiêu đề was to be nai Party, but an unrelated outdoor magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him that they would legally protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner and co-founder and executive vice president Eldon Sellers met to discuss the problem and to seek a new name. Sellers' mother suggested the name "The gentlemen's club", but it was Alexx Mills, who had worked for the short-lived playboy Automobile Company, in Chicago, who suggested the name "Playboy".

The first issue, published in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was...