“Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.” MenWholeFemaleConnectionsMalesNotionMagazinesBeerBondingPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.” IfsBookHelpingLightTurnsSexDarkExpressionHealthyConversationEverydayMagazinesTurn-onUnhealthy Author:Hugh Hefner
“If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.” IfsLongI CanHappensLosesAliveGenerationsPromiseDeserveBallsMagazinesVigorousEditorialsPlayboyI'm Alive Author:Hugh Hefner
“Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?” KnowsMindHas BeensBeautifulGirlPartyImagineChangedKeysPressesClubsMagazinesChainsSymbolsThank GodDid You KnowBeautiful GirlStagsAntlers Author:Hugh Hefner
“As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls.” PeopleLongSaidGirlTalkingLong TimeForestsMagazinesRaysFascinatedLong Time AgoPlayboyContributorsBradbury Author:Hugh Hefner
“For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.” HeartHalfMagazinesLive LifeOther Half Author:Hugh Hefner
“I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.” ThinkingFormStrongMediaTheoryMagazinesJournalismVery StrongPublishingOld FriendsMagazine Publishing Author:Hugh Hefner
“I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.” ThinkingKindArtMadeRunningViewsPoint Of ViewNakedRationalMagazinesPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.” MenWayDreamSexMagazinesTeenagerPublishingSophisticatedFulfillingNurturingGetting LaidMagazine Publishing Author:Hugh Hefner
“I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.” ImportantSexLifestyleMagazinesIngredientsPlayboyPlayboy Magazine Author:Hugh Hefner
