I Have Very Strong Theories About Magazine

Being Attacked By Right-wing Christians Did Not Bother Me. Being Attacked By Liberal Feminists Did.

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.

People Project Their Own Dreams, Fantasies, And Prejudices Onto My Life. So People Are Either Fans, Or Jealous, Or Disagree. Everybody Marches To A Different Drummer.

I Can Remember In My Adolescence Feeling That Many Of The Things That Were Hurtful And Hypocritical In Society Were Things Related To Sex. They Included The Kind Of Censorship Laws That Existed In The Movies And Books When I Was Young.

I Was Raised In A Typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist Home And There Was A Lot Of Hurt And Hypocrisy In Those Times. And I Think That Whatever Part Playboy Played And That I Managed To Play In Terms Of The Sexual Revolution Came Out Of What I Saw In The Negative Part Of That Life And Tried To Change Things In Some Positive Way So That People Could Choose Alternate Personal Ways Of Living Their Lives.