Publishing A Sophisticated Men's Magazine Seemed To

I Guess I'm The Most Successful Man I Know. I Wouldn't Trade Places With Anybody In The World.

I Looked Back On The Roaring Twenties, With Its Jazz, 'great Gatsby' And The Pre-code Films As A Party I Had Somehow Managed To Miss.

The Notion That Playboy Turns Women Into Sex Objects Is Ridiculous. Women Are Sex Objects. If Women Weren't Sex Objects, There Wouldn't Be Another Generation. It's The Attraction Between The Sexes That Makes The World Go 'round. That's Why Women Wear Lipstick And Short Skirts.

I Was A Very Idealistic, Very Romantic Kid In A Very Typically Midwestern Methodist Repressed Home. There Was No Show Of Affection Of Any Kind, And I Escaped To Dreams And Fantasies Produced, By And Large, By The Music And The Movies Of The '30s.

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.