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

The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various 기사 on fashion, sports, consumer goods, and public figures. It also has short fiction 의해 상단, 맨 위로 literary writers, such as Arthur C. Clarke,...

Playboy's original 제목 was to be 수사슴, 사슴 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 플레이보이 Automobile Company, in Chicago, who suggested the name "Playboy".

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