Secrets of Playboy - Season 2

Secrets of Playboy - Season 2

Season 2

Over the course of eight hours, season 2 expands the series' focus and examines the ripple effect of being involved with Playboy, exposing the blast zone, and showing how the Playboy experience continued to affect women's lives long after they finished posing for the magazine. Featuring new never-before-seen interviews with former Playmates and Playboy models, girlfriends of Hefner's, and three episodes hosted by investigative journalist and former Playboy cover model Lisa Guerrero, the series broadens its lens and examines how the Playboy's promise of sexual freedom posed a more complex reality in the outside world for the women who represented it.

Network
Episodes8
DatesJul 10, 2023 - Aug 14, 2023
Previous Season

Episodes

Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold
Season 2Episode 160 min

Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold

Thousands of women across the nation vied for the chance to become a Playmate, but only 12 were chosen for the reality competition.

Jul 10, 2023
The Era of the Seven
Season 2Episode 260 min

The Era of the Seven

After a divorce in the late 90s, Hugh Hefner became a bachelor again, and the era of the seven girlfriends emerged. For some, being one of the seven girlfriends was a highly coveted position that was as much a job as it was a relationship. Hef's girlfriends were not only supported by him, but they were used to publicly promote the Playboy brand during lavish events and club outings. But being a girlfriend was not all glitz and glam.

Jul 17, 2023
Playboy on Campus
Season 2Episode 360 min

Playboy on Campus

In 1977 Playboy introduced pictorials featuring often barely-legal college women. Playboy went to university campuses across the country and hosted auditions for female students to pose and represent their school. While some of these women jumped at the chance to audition, others protested the magazine's presence on campus. For those that were selected, the choice to pose for Playboy sometimes resulted in unanticipated, far reaching consequences, in their personal lives and their careers.

Jul 24, 2023
The Truth Hurts
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Truth Hurts

Sondra Theodore and her daughter Katie explore their dramatically different versions of life at the Playboy Mansion as they work to heal the trauma in their complicated relationship.

Jul 31, 2023
My Body My Choice
Season 2Episode 560 min

My Body My Choice

Posing for Playboy seems like a dream come true for many young women, but the allure of fame and fortune comes with a steep price: their bodies become commodities, their choices are restricted by a company that seeks to profit from their sexuality, and sometimes instead of opening doors for the women, it closes them.

Aug 7, 2023
Athletes Exposed
Season 2Episode 660 min

Athletes Exposed

The sports world is often criticized for not only underpaying and undervaluing female athletes, but these women are also notoriously sexualized. It is something investigative journalist and former Playboy cover model, Lisa Guerrero has personally experienced during her time as an NFL cheerleader and sports reporter. Lisa talks with three athletes who made the controversial decision to pose for Playboy, and the backlash they received from appearing in with the magazine.

Aug 7, 2023
Women in Uniform
Season 2Episode 760 min

Women in Uniform

Playboy has long been known for its pictorials of working women. Perhaps none of these features were more tantalizing to their readers than those of women in uniform. Playboy cover model and investigative journalist Lisa Guerrero sits down with a former NYPD officer and a former US Air Force Training Instructor to discuss the highs, and lows, of their fateful decision to pose.

Aug 14, 2023
Standards of Beauty
Season 2Episode 860 min

Standards of Beauty

While Playboy usually featured a specific standard of beauty in its magazine, it occasionally disrupted that norm by showcasing models not typically seen within its pages. Those decisions often created controversy. Investigative journalist and former Playboy cover model Lisa Guerrero talks with three Playboy models who were not the traditional women readers were accustomed to.

Aug 14, 2023

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