Published for the first time in 1953?? Playboy became not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America?? but also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle that took place in a series of utopian multimedia spaces?? from the fictional Playboy's Penthouse of 1956 to the Playboy Mansion of 1959 and the Playboy Clubs of the 1960s. At the same time?? the invention of the contraceptive pill offered access to a biochemical technique able to separate (hetero)sexuality and reproduction?? troubling the traditional relationships between gender?? sexuality?? power?? and space.

In Pornotopia?? Beatriz Preciado examines popular culture and pornographic spaces as sites of architectural production. Combining historical perspectives with ins