Decades of Playboy Covers: Unlike Real Life Sexual Mores, Not Much Has Changed

Writing about a young Madonna, featured in the September 1985 Playboy, and now on exhibit in London just now, I paused to think about Playboy then and now.  On the outside, not all that much has changed, which may explain why the brand has struggled so in the high-competitive, erotically-charged, anything-goes, modern media world.

The covers do represent an interesting, centralized survey of sexy women over the years. A