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I Was Raised In A Truly Typical Midwestern Home With A Lot Of Repression. My Life, And The Creation Of Playboy, Were A Response To That Repression.

I Suggested That Sex Was Not The Enemy, That Violence Was The Enemy, That Nice Girls Like Sex.

I'm Very Comfortable With The Nature Of Life And Death, And That We Come To An End. What's Most Difficult To Imagine Is That Those Dreams And Early Yearnings And Desires Of Childhood And Adolescence Will Also Disappear. But Who Knows? Maybe You Become Part Of The Eternal Whatever.

It Is The Beauty Of Women, And The Fact That They Are The Focus, That They Are Sex Objects In A Positive Sense, Is The Reason We Have Civilization.

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.