Figure 3: Designs for the Playboy Bed: The Playboy Bed, November 1959; The Playboy Bed, April 1965.

The removal of domestic culinary space is further emphasized by the centralization of the bachelor pad around the bedroom.  Playboy transforms the sleeping space into a technological and sexual hub where the bachelor exhibits dominance over his abode and his late-night companions.  Two designs for a bed are filled with gadgets and control panels allowing the playboy to flick, touch, rub, throw, or push his way to satisfaction: sound and lighting systems are easily reached, food storage and serving areas are copiously built in, and the round bed even rotates to match the playboy’s preferred view.  The highly-engineered qualities of the beds realize the fantasies of the male agoraphobe and reduce the spatial requirements of feminized programs down to toys that can be played with.