The Playboy Philosophy
July, 1963
Mark Twain expressed himself on America's oft seemingly schizophrenic sexual attitudes in his Letters from the Earth, long suppressed by his family and just recently published for the first time: A fallen angel visits earth and describes, with some incredulity, what he finds there to archangels St. Michael and St. Gabriel. "There is nothing about man that is not strange to an immortal. His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a...
