The Playboy Philosophy

February, 1964

During The Dark Ages, the medieval Church dominated almost every level of European society. Many of the Church leaders were negatively obsessed with sex, to a degree unknown in early Christianity, and this antisexuality was perpetuated by both ecclesiastical and Church-influenced secular law.It might be expected that the Reformation would have produced a freer society – one less inclined to sexual suppression and less controlled by an alliance between church and state – but as we have indicated...