Playmate of the Month
Karen Price photographed by Ken Marcus.

Interview
John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff.

Personality
"Prime of Coach Bum Phillips" by Roy Blount Jr.

Features
"The Astonishing Wrongs of the New Moral Right" by Johnny Greene
"Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King
"Sexual Office Politics: A Guide for the Eighties" by Michael Korda
"Stocks, Bonds, Rock 'N' Roll" by Peter S. Greenberg.

Honky-Tonk Angels
Tracy Vaccaro, Pamela Hoff, Katie Chase, Roxanna Davis, Mary Whalen, Pam Stevens, Judi Andersen, Laurie Williams, Vicky Beasley, Patty Davis,, Susan Hannon, Pamela Geise, Nancy Jo Whittingslow, Deborah Ferguson, Teresa Stephens, Paula Kay Dinges, Christi Jost, Julie Burrows, Rahnee Reiland Teri Serrell, Jewel Robin, Jennifer Babtist, Kathy Dee Granholm, Loretta Barket, Jil Offenstine and Amy Crawford.

Playboy's Playmate Review
Henriette Allais, Terri Welles, Teri Peterson, Lisa Welch, Ola Ray, Mardi Jacquet, Jeana Tomasino, Martha Thomsen, Victoria Cooke, Liz Glazowski, Gig Gangel and Sandy Cagle.

Interview
Tom Snyder by Nicholas Yanni.

Personality
"Deep in With David Carradine" by Laurence Gonzales.

Features
"The Technology War: Behind Japanese Lines" by Peter Ross Range
"Life Inside the Carter State Department" by Hodding Carter III
"The Sky's the Limit!" by Danny Goodman.

Playmate Roomates
Terry Welles, Candy Loving and Sandra Theodore (cover) photographed by Mario Casilli.

Interview
James Garner by Lawrence Linderman.

20 Questions
Lauren Hutton by David Rensin.

Features
"Thirty-Six Hours at Santa Fe" by Roger Morris
"How to Buy Life Insurance and Get Out of it Alive" by John Dorfman
"Hot Shots" by Robert Byrne.

My Sister, My Self (Twins)
Piper and Tara Perry, Cybil and Tricia Barnstable (cover, photographed by Tom Staebler), Sheila and Moira Stone and Lynette and Leigh Harris photographed by Arny Freytag.

Interview
Ed Asner by Sam Merrill.

Features
"Why Do Men Rape?" by Richard Rhodes
"How to Outgun the IRS" by Paul Strassels.

"The Liberation of a Congressional Wife" by Rita Jenrette with Kathleen Maxa, pictorial of Rita Jenretta photographed by Pompeo Posar.

Girls of Kokomo (Indiana)
Diana Kesterson, Cindy McAninch, Robin Maddox, Marianne Jackson, Karen Woods, Dianna Main, Polly Lybrook, Kimberly Sunde, Cheryl Morgan, Sara Depew, Stacey Lyon, Toni Mohr, Chiffone (Miss Nude Indianapolis), Robin Levy and Jodi Pearce photographed by David Chan.

Interview
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross by Marcia Seligson.

20 Questions
John De Lorean by Warren Kalbacker.

Features
"A Guerrilla Guide to the Computer Revolution" by Robert E. Carr
"Dorothy Stratten: Her Story" by Richard Rhodes
"Playboy's GT Weekend Boat" by Brock Yates.

Playmate of the Month
Cathy Larmouth photographed by Ken Marcus.

Interview
Steve Garvey by Samantha Stevenson.

20 Questions
Jack Lemmon by Nancy Collins.

Features
"When Business Becomes Blood Sport" by Michael Korda
"What You're Not Supposed to Know About the Arms Race" by Asa Baber.

Interview
Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood by Winston Groom.

Features
"Beyond the Pill" by David Black
"Pitchers' Duel" by Pat Jordan
"Undercover Angel" by Lawrence Linderman.

Tender Cousins (film)
Anja Shute and many other young women in the film photographed by David Hamilton.

Interview
George Gildner by Michael Laurence.

20 Question
Joan Rivers by Robert Crane.

Features
"Inside the New Right War Machine" by Peter Ross Range
"Freedom Fighters" by Edward Roeder
"Roll Over, Beethoven" by Norman Eisenberg
"Playboy's Pro Football Preview" by Anson Mount
"The Vanishing-Suitcase Caper" by Peter S. Greenberg
"The Bombayment Method" by Reg Potterton.

Interview
James Michener by Lawrence Grobel.

Features
"Ruthless Mothers: Money, Values and the Gimme Decade" by Donald R. Katz
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" by Cameron Crow
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount.

Girls of the Southeastern Conference
Tawanna Sharp, Kimberly Lasseter, Casey Sweet, Gigi Aldridge, Debra Gregory, Syerelyn Jackson, Joan Villarosa, Lyndi Young, Juliana van Mierop, JoAnne Riggs, Marlene Hall, Eve Vaupel, Donna Crouch, Gina Todd, Jamie Kapeghian, Becky Lewis, Jena Clayton, JoAnne Henderson, Carol Darsey, Mary Landreth and Karen Paige photographed by David Chan and Arny Freytag.

Interview
Donald Sutherland by Claudia Dreifus.

Features
"Welcome to the Postliberation World" by Laurence Shames
"Musings of a Not-So-Angry Woman" by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Death as a Way of Life" by Christopher Dickey
"The Kindest Cuts of All" by Henry Post
"The World's Most Daring Sportsmen" by Geoffrey Tabin.

Girls of the Southeastern Conference, Part II
Suzanne Shaheen, Devin De Vasquez, Tricia Doyle, Chole Vilas, Holly Kelley, Carolyn Arnold, Sheri Proffett, Julia Gillis, Tish O'Connor,Crystal McTaggart, Marcia Levy, Shari Helton, Anne Jones, Deanna Rankin, Sallie Crutcher, Pamela Skaggs, Julie Gayle, Debra Kittle, Kathy Murphy, Candy Howell, Claire Peterson and Punnie Brittain photographed by David Chan and Arny Freytag.

Interview
Oriana Fallaci by Robert Scheer.

Personality
"The Problem With Crystal (Gayle)" by Chet Flippo.

Features
"Tuning in to Channel Sex" by David Rensin
"The Stakes of the Game" by David Halberstam
"Playboy's Audio Update" by Norman Eisenberg.

Playboy's Roving Eye --- New York Nude
Rara Shannon, Alan Bresler, Pamela Peters, Lynde Johnson, Gary and Sherry Mickelson, Rollerena, Virginia and Lillian Peralta, Michael C. Riter (with wife and mother-in-law), Ron Galella, The Contessa Jeritza-DeNova Scone and daughter Gina Cleo Bloome photographed by Charles R. Collum.

Interview
Henry Fonda by Lawrence Grobel.

20 Questions
John Kenneth Galbraith by Warren Kalbacker.

Features
"Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen" by James Baldwin
"The Buddy System" by Geoffrey Norman
"Anatomy of a corporate Take-Over" by Richard Phalon
"Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy" by Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson with Walter Lowe Jr.
"Playboy's College Basketball Preview" by Anson Mount
"American Beauties" by Laurence Shames.

And the Playmates Sing
Heidi Sorenson, Sondra Theodore, Michele Drake, Kelly Tough, Anne Randall, Nicki Thomas and George Burns (not nude).

Sex Stars of 1981
Christopher Reeve, Bo Derek, Brooke Shields, Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Bruce Dern, Angie Dickinson, James Caan, Valerie Perrine, Maud Adams, Margot Kidder, Nastassia Kinski, Barbara Bach, Elisabeth Brooks, Kathleen Turner, Barbara Carrera, Sandahl Bergman, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Tome Selleck, Andrew Stevens, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Evans, Victoria Principal, Charlene Tilton, Jane Seymore, Susan Sarandon, William Hurt, Jessica Lange, Jack Thompson, Isabelle Huppert, Sonia Braga, Isabelle Adjani, Yank Sydne Rome, Sylvia Kristel, Kim Basinger, Robbin Young, Terri Welles and Miles O'Keeffe (not all previously named are nude).