History Trivia / Playboy

* ItsNotPornItsArt: A common justification... including during the early days, with several lawsuits trying to ban the magazine as obscene content. (and considering how raunchy equivalents such as ''Penthouse'' and ''Hustler'' get, the magazine got a pass with this trope)

* ContentLeak: Along with how in the 2000s the pictures would spread across the internet as soon as some subscribers digitized their issues, at least once it happened prior, as one employee of the Brazilian printer decided he had to forward the main pictorial to a friend. (he was understandably fired)

* MundaneUtility: That sample image test known as Lena originated from a centerfold.

* FountainOfExpies: As probably the most famous men's magazine of all time, there have been innumerable expies (with titles like "Playpen") throughout almost all media. Likewise, whenever the publisher of such a magazine is depicted, it will almost always be a pajama-wearing, martini-drinking knockoff of Hef.

* ContentLeak: Along with how in the 2000s the pictures would spread across the internet as soon as some subscribers
digitized their issues, at least once it happened prior, as one employee of the Brazilian printer decided he had to forward the main pictorial to a friend. (he was understandably fired)

* ItsNotPornItsArt: A common justification... including during the early days, with several lawsuits trying to ban the magazine as obscene content. (and considering how raunchy equivalents such as ''Penthouse'' and ''Hustler'' get, the magazine got a pass with this trope).

* Some people really do [[IReadItForTheArticles read it for the articles]]: Playboy is actually one of the magazines that The Library of Congress funds having printed in Braille. In 1985 it was dropped from the list. In 1986 the funding was restored when it was argued in court that blind readers who use the Braille edition really ''do'' get it for the articles since the Braille edition contains no ads or pictures.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The naked ladies are what the magazine is best known for.

* ItsNotPornItsArt: A common justification... including during the early days, with several lawsuits trying to ban the magazine as obscene content. (and considering how raunchy equivalents such as ''Penthouse'' and ''Hustler'' get, Hefner & co. can get a pass with this trope)

* Some people really do [[IReadItForTheArticles read it for the articles:]] Playboy is actually one of the magazines that The Library of Congress funds having printed in Braille. In 1985 it was dropped from the list. In 1986 the funding was restored when it was argued in court that blind readers who use the Braille edition really ''do'' get it for the articles since the Braille edition contains no ads or pictures.
* [[TheSimpsons Marge Simpson's]] November 2009 appearance on the cover makes her the first animated character to do so.

* From 1999 onwards, Playboy usually featured a WWE Diva posing topless. If she posed for the magazine it become tradition for her to have a match at [=WrestleMania=]. Upon WWE going PG in 2008, this was dropped. Divas who posed were:

** Wrestling/AshleyMassaro in 2007. She had previously posed twice in 2003 and 2004 under the pseudonym "Ryan McKenzie".

** Wrestling/AshleyMassaro in 2007.

** {{Wrestling/Sable}} was the first to do so in 1999.

** Wrestling/CandiceMichelle in 2006.

** {{Wrestling/Chyna}} in 2000.

** Wrestling/StacyCarter (The Kat) claims that she and Chyna were supposed to pose together in 2001 but the deal was cancelled.

* MundaneUtility: That sample image test known as Lena originated from a centerfold.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: 2009 Playmate of the Year Sarah Underwood can currently be found on G4's ''Series/AttackOfTheShow''.

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* IdiosyncraticCoverArt \ EasterEgg: A bunny is hidden somewhere on every cover.

* A bunny is hidden somewhere on every cover.
* That sample image test known as Lena.

* HeyItsThatGuy: 2009 Playmate of the Year Sarah Underwood can currently be found on G4's ''AttackOfTheShow''.