These vintage G-rated Playboy covers are surprisingly endearing
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Today's Playboy magazine covers do technically leave something to the imagination. But it's not like you could flip through a gallery of recent Playboy covers at your open-office desk without receiving a reprimanding email from your HR department.
But that wasn't the case 60 years ago. Picking up a Playboy from the 1950s, you'd be forgiven for mistaking the racy mag for a quirky comic book about a smartly dressed anthropomorphic rabbit who liked to keep tabs on his fully clothed female friends:
The covers from the first two decades of Playboy were more endearing innuendo than bra-busting cleavage. It's sweet, really. If fully clothed ladies and rabbits that can really pull off a suit are your thing, click here to see more G-rated vintage Playboy covers.
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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.
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