Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics

Playboy was not just a magazine, but also came to embody a new lifestyle that took place in spaces such as the Playboy mansion and the Playboy clubs. Pornotopia traces relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through various sites — bachelor pads, multimedia rotating beds, and others — related to the production and consumption of pornography. Preciado is a professor at the University of Paris VIII.