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Through the decades. The dog days of summer are here, and at Playboy, that means we’re bringing the heat. Summer is still in full swing, and we’re celebrating the warmer months with a dozen scantily-clad ladies, our beautiful cover stars through the decades. August covers are heavy on the surf and sand, on little bikinis and beach babes. The perfect way to kick off the month.

Playboy's Kelly Oxford lays out the rules. Sex • Getty Images My friend Lex calls from Rome asking if she should fuck her fling’s friend, and I stop her at the second part. The chef is not a fling. A fling doesn’t leave bite bruises up the inside of both thighs so consistently that a woman spends a calendar year in pants and maxi skirts. Lex owns mini-dresses, but Rome never saw them. The not-exclusive part is real. Lex has other lovers, all year.

Playboy talks to the New Orleans rapper about the rebirth of his city. Getty Images By the time I sat down with Rob49, his flight had been delayed nearly a day, and I overheard the rapper had only slept two hours since landing back in his hometown of New Orleans. Our interview was squeezed in just three hours before his sold-out Vulture Island Experience, a star-studded celebration of music and culture.

Ahead of "I Want Your Sex," the filmmaker sits down and goes deep with Playboy. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Gregg Araki knows sex. Since the late 1980s, when he was coming to prominence in the company of his fellow New Queer Cinema practitioners, the director has made matters of the body a central facet of his work.

The latest incel insult focuses on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Sex • Welcome to Fair Play, a column exploring the shifting dynamics of sex, dating and culture by Playboy Senior Editor Magdalene Taylor. Introduce the topic of “hip dips” in most company and the vast majority of people will have no clue what you’re talking about.

Come inside "self-pleasure Sunday" with Will Blunderfield, where nobody comes at all. Sex • Courtesy of Will Blunderfield “Hello, my friends,” a bald, bearded man named Will Blunderfield tells his four students, plus me, over Zoom on a recent afternoon. “Welcome to our self-pleasure Sundays.” Our leader is topless, sitting cross-legged on the floor with his hands pressed together at his chest in a prayer position in his Vancouver apartment.

He was a broke actor from Waco—and now he's the most powerful man in television. This story appears in our Summer 2026 issue, on newsstands July 28. Want us to come to your place? Become a member to get digital access to the issue and early access to paywalled content.

From snot fetishes to "clam ham." Sex • Photo by Kelia Anne By day, Gabe Trew is the owner of POP, a marketplace for locally-made goods in Canberra, Australia. But off the clock, he runs Confession Daddy, an Instagram page divulging some of the juiciest secrets ever to grace Mark Zuckerberg’s internet. The page emerged just last week, but it’s taken the algorithm by storm thanks to anonymous admissions like a snot fetish, a midwife hookup, and a food kink you’ll have to read to believe.

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The world isn't as it seems. Illustration by ENIGMATRIZ This story appears in our Summer 2026 issue, on newsstands July 28. Want us to come to your place? Become a member to get digital access to the issue and early access to paywalled content. They spent the afternoon planting wheat.