Playboy Magazine made the centrefold an art and is now the subject of a Dublin exhibition.
The Playboy bunny costume represents fun or female oppression depending on your point of view.
RTÉ News speaks to exhibition manager Edmund Ping about the background to Playboy and the exhibition at Harvey Nichols in the Dundrum Town Centre.
The first Playboy centrefold was a naked picture of Marilyn Monroe in 1953, which launched the magazine as a multi-national media success story. Edmund Ping sees the magazine launch as representing a change in attitude in post-war America.
Alongside the revealing pictures, the magazine also showcased cutting edge journalism.
An RTÉ News report by Aine Gallagher broadcast on 7 February 2006.
