Magazine created in the late 1950s, promoting a sophisticated urban bachelor lifestyle.

Others suggested that its then near-nude centerfold endorsed prurient sensibilities that downgraded women. In the 1960s, Playboy clubs emerged, with waitresses clad in revealing bunny costumes; while feminist Gloria Steinem chronicled her life as a bunny some bunnies themselves argued that the job provided money and opportunities before the clubs languished in the 1980s. Playboy’s editor, Hugh Hefner, has attempted to personify the magazine’s ideals as an outspoken philosopher endorsing both pleasure and consumerism, while Playboy interviews with major figures have produced political news, justifying many a man who claimed to read Playboy “only for the articles.”