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The Playboy magazine's first issue was published in December 1953.

The magazine combined some nude and semi-nude photographs of young women with articles written by highly respected writers, leading some men to joke "I only subscribe for the articles".[1][2]

While the magazine usually contained other nude or semi-nude photographs, every month a photospread of several pages was devoted to the "Playmate of the month". While the young women chosen were often unknown people, the playmate in the very first issue was Marilyn Monroe.

Highly respected authors who were published by Playboy include: Arthur C. Clarke,[3] Ian Fleming,[3] Vladimir Nabokov,[4] Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse,[3] Roald Dahl,[5] Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood.[3]

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1. ↑ Barrie Hardymon. [https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2010/07/20/128648906/playboy-with-an-emphasis-on-the-articles Playboy, With An Emphasis On The Articles JULY 20, 20103:50 PM ET Barrie Hardymon, photographed for NPR, 27 July 2019, in .], National Public Radio, 2010-07-10. Retrieved on 2024-02-16. “It's a long running joke about one of the oldest nudie magazines in America: "Oh, this Playboy? I only read it for the articles." And man, what articles!”
2. ↑ I Read It for the Articles, TV Tropes. Retrieved on 2024-02-16. “The trope name comes from a common justification for reading Playboy magazine - it quickly became a joke that a man caught reading Playboy would insist he was only reading it for the articles.”
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Steven Watts (August 24, 2009). Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Wiley, 80, 91,111,144,152,190. ISBN 978-0-470-52167-0.
4. ↑ Samuel Schuman (1979). Vladimir Nabokov, A Reference Guide. ISBN 9780816181346.
5. ↑ 11 great authors who wrote for Hugh Hefner's Playboy, BBC, September 28, 2017.