“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
“It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.” MenWellsHas BeensWomenViewsConceptsFemaleOppositesMalesTeethFeminineCompetingCounterpartsFeminine BeautyWell RoundedVoluptuous Author:Hugh Hefner
“Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.” MenTwoValuesEnjoyWomenSidesNaturalSinStepsRolesSourceSexualityTemptationCoinsMen WomenTwo SidesPedestalPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.” PeopleMenAmericaPleasureResultsMoralityCodeSuspectsPuritanWhirlwind Author:Hugh Hefner
“The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.” MenIdeasNotionObscureSingle LifeBachelorsSingle ManSeparate Lives Author:Hugh Hefner
“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.” MenTermDifferencesViewsStyleTasteInternational 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 guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.” KnowsMenWorldSuccessfulTradeSuccessful Man Author:Hugh Hefner
