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* [[Eighties Hair]]: In that decade, models liked their hair as poofy as possible when they did shoots (see the cover pictured).
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: About 99% of jokes about ''Playboy'' involve either the phrase "pages stuck together" or the word "laminated".
* [[Follow The Leader]]: ''[[Penthouse]]'' and ''[[Hustler]]'' are two of the most successful copycat magazines to ride Playboy's coattails. Both pushed the envelope way harder than even ''Playboy'' did when it was the only game in town, causing the magazine to follow suit in order to keep up with its rivals. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_Wars The Other Wiki's article] about (ahem) the Pubic Wars.
** During the 1990s, both ''Penthouse'' and ''Hustler'' started showing explicit sexual activity in their pictorials, something that ''Playboy'' has never yet done, so this trope has been inverted in that regard.
* [[Gender Flip]]: ''Playgirl'', even though it's more popular among gay men than straight women. The magazine recently went under and is now solely a subscription website.
* [[Gosh Dang It To Heck]]: The magazine is ''ridiculously'' mild by today's standards.
* [[I Read It for the Articles]]: [http://coldcrashpictures.blogspot.com/2010/11/playboy-has-words-in-it-too.html Some people really do.] See also [[Periphery Demographic]].
** In [[The Eighties]], the U.S. government attempted to slash funding to have ''Playboy'' published in braille, effectively getting rid of the one segment of the population that ''really did'' read it for the articles.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: As noted below, ''Playboy'' has long been a favorite target for both fundamentalists and feminists. The magazine has returned the favor by sniping at them in its articles and editorials over the decades. (In one early 1980s issue, Playboy ran a rather [[Anvilicious]] parody of itself as it might look under fundamentalist editorship.)
* [[Nudity Tropes]]: Basically most of them.
* [[Over The Shoulder Pose]]: In many spreads and covers.
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: The [[Trope Maker]]. And [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: A common part of one, especially in the days before video. Finding your dad's or older brother's old ''Playboy''s is a common [[Stealth Pun|coming]] of age trope in its own right.
* [[Pretty In Mink]]: A few models and playmates wear a fur in their pictures.
** [[Naked In Mink]]: Usually just the covers (like the one pictured), since within the magazine it's not to cover up.
* [[The Rule Of First Adopters]: One of the pictures widely used for early image compression algorithms was the centerfold from the November 1972 issue, Lena Söderberg.
* [[Sensual Slavs]]: [http://s11.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/e/a/ealewknspxqbkwsa.jpg The "Women of Russia" issue.]
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Fundamentalists and feminists hate the magazine, for entirely different reasons. Fundamentalists hate it because they think it's obscene and ungodly, while feminists hate it due to what they feel is the exploitation of women, and the way the clubs would treat the women working in them. This alliance of convenience also extends to pornography in general.
** Funnily enough, back in the 1970s when feminists were hating on it most was also when it was most classy.
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