For the magazine's December 1974 issue, PLAYBOY commissioned surrealist artist Salvador Dali to compose images from the erotic world of his mind. Staff photographer and fellow Mediterranean Pompeo Posar was sent to Dali's villa in the small seaside town of Cadaques to photograph these "surrealities" —bizarre but intricate montages of nude women, snakes, a camel, a giant egg and Greco-Roman statuary.

Pompeo spent the better part of two weeks there. Working from the preliminary conceptual sketches he had made, Dali set up each shot, issuing commands to the models and crew. When PLAYBOY asked Dali what these images meant, the artist responded with no apparent irony, "The meaning of my work is the motivation that is of the purest — money. What I did for PLAYBOY is very good and your payment is equal to the task."