 | Playmate of the Month: Star Stowe, photographed by Pompeo Posar Star-Struck | February’s Star Stowe is full of surprises, all of them pleasant |
| Dear Playboy | |
| Playboy After Hours | |
| Selected Short: The Doomsday Army, by Michael Ledeen | |
| Selected Short: What, Me Cry?, by Brian Vachon | |
| The Playboy Advisor | |
| Playboy Sex Poll | An informal survey of current sexual attitudes, behavior and insights, by Howard Smith and Brian van der Horst | |
| The Playboy Forum | |
 | Playboy Interview: Keith Stroup | A candid conversation about pot smoking, drugs and legal hassles with the young director of NORML, who is spearheading the reform of marijuana laws |
 | Personality: The Postcelluloid Tristesse of Raquel Welch | Don’t you think a sex goddess has feelings, too?, by O’Connell Driscoll, illustrated by Dennis Magdich |
 | Fiction: The Trolls of God | O great head coach in the sky, help us go out and win one for St. Clochard, by James Powell, illustrated by John O’Leary |
 | Pictorial: The Love Feast | Wherein a man and a maid satisfy their hunger, photographed by Jeff Dunas |
 | Article: Crazy Joe Must Die! | The exclusive story of how Joe Luparelli, a jack of all underworld trades now living under federal protection, arranged the execution of Joey Gallo, by Paul S. Meskil, illustrated by Vincent Topazio |
 | Grooming: Hair Today | How to cut it, how to cultivate it and how to keep it (if you can), by Charles Hix, photographed by Paul Gremmler |
 | Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes |
 | Article: A Very Quiet Horror | Chile’s exiled foreign minister, assassinated on Washington’s embassy row, told Playboy before his death about torture and forced labor in the Siberia of the south, by Tad Szulc, illustrated by Jacob Knight |
 | Attire: Adventures in the Skin Trade | Suede and leather speak softly but carry a big kick, by David Platt, photographed by Peter Gert |
 | Fiction: Garp’s Night Out | There were some things he just couldn’t tell his wife — like what didn’t happen on Mrs. Ralph’s water bed, by John Irving |
 | Modern Living: Black is the Color… | …of the new look in a wide range of objects that are practical and pleasurable |
 | The Motel Tapes | More carryings-on behind those closed doors, by Mike McGrady, illustrated by Robert Goldstrom (part two of a new book) |
 | Pictorial: Playboy’s Playmate Preview | A super abundance of candidates to grace our gatefold in the months ahead (Virve Reid, Nicki Thomas, Debra Jo Fondren, Kristine Winder and Lisa Sohm) |
 | Humor: The Book of Coasts | A biblical retelling of the great schism between east and west, between skyscrapers and pink stucco, by Marshall Brickman, illustrated by Kunio Hagio |
 | Ribald Classic: English Music-Hall Ballads | From the Sixpenny Songbooks, illustrated by Brad Holland |
 | Pictorial: The Year in Sex | A slightly irreverent look at the advances — and setbacks — of the sexual revolution in ’76 |
 | Humor: Kaplan’s Phallusies | Another batch of singularly constructed little guys, by Ervin L. Kaplan |
 | Playboy Potpourri | People, places, objects and events of interest or amusement |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Habitat | Return of the cave man, photographed by Bill Maris |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Making Out | Or, what are friends for?, by James R. Petersen, illustrated by Robert Goldstrom |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Gadgets, photographed by Richard Izur |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Grapevine (Sylvester Stallone, Marthe Keller, Walter Parks and Keith Critchlow, Curtis Mayfield, John Travolta) |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Travel | Rent-a-dream, by David Standish |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Behavior | Look, ma, no hands, by Dennis Troute |
 | Playboy on the Scene: Sexcetera |
 Alden Erikson |  Buck Brown |  Doug Sneyd |  Eldon Dedini |
 Michael Ffolkes |  Phil Interlandi |  Rowland Wilson |  Roy Raymonde |
 Francis Wilford Smith |
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