1969/12 -- Vol. 16 No. 12. 352 pages.

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Joe Namath
  • The Flashlight -- fiction by Eldridge Cleaver
  • Genius -- article by Robert Graves
  • Homage to Toulouse-Lautrec -- pictorial credited to Ronald Searle
  • Two Paths to the Top -- article by J. Paul Getty
  • The Girls of Hair -- pictorial
  • Crook's Tour -- fiction by Graham Greene
  • Hunger in America -- article by U.S. Senator Jacob Javits
  • Playboy's Christmas Cards -- Verse by Judith Wax
  • Cross the Border, Close the Gap -- Opinion by Leslie A. Fiedler
  • The Min-Gala -- food by Thomas Mario
  • Soft-Core Pornography Made Easy -- humor
  • Cordle to Onion to Carror -- fiction by Robert Sheckley
  • Santa Claus Confidential -- humor by William Iversen
  • Carnival in Rio -- travel
  • Snow White? -- humor by Woody Allen
  • Revolutionary Discovery -- Playboy's Playmate of the Month Gloria Root
  • Playboy's Party Jokes -- humor
  • Love, Dad -- fiction by Joseph Heller
  • A New Approach to Christmas Giving -- gifts
  • The Great Crooners -- nostalgia by Tiny Tim
  • Choice Cartoons from Yuletides Past -- humor
  • Sugar and Clay -- article by Sugar Ray Robinson
  • Sex Stars of 1969 -- article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Episode and Postscript -- memoir by Timothy Leary with mushroom bordered pop-up featuring illustrated image of Leary
  • Murder in the Kitchen -- article by Alan Watts
  • Epigrams from the Greek Anthology -- ribald classic
  • The Harold Robbins Co. -- article/pictorial by John Skow
  • The Pervert -- satire by Jules Feiffer
  • On the Scene -- personalities
  • Little Annie Fanny -- satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder