Zitat des Tages von Hugh Hefner:
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.
I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.
The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women.
Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.
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.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I had a photographer shoot a 3D feature for the first issue and learned it would cost too much money. When the 3D thing turned out to be too expensive, at that same moment I came across the photos of Marilyn Monroe.
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.
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.
I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.
I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the male bonding that came out of a war... And what I tried to create was a magazine for the indoor guy, but focused specifically on the single life: in other words, the period of bachelorhood before you settle down.
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. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.
The business end of business has never interested me.
