Welded steel rods curved and shaped into the Playboy logo. This piece explores sexuality and its relationship to material: steel. With the first issue of the now iconic magazine in 1953, Playboy Enterprises began to define and reflect American masculinity. Through strength and sleekness, steel encapsulates the qualities advertised in Playboy of an ideal 1950s bachelor. Just as steel lasts, so too does this identity. The bunny traced through a framework of metal, left empty to imply a precarious masculine facade, or the vapidness of mid-century gender roles.