The Playboy Philosophy
November, 1965
The Playboy Philosophy is sometimes referred to by its critics as little more than a rationalization, apology or promotion for this publication. But the basic beliefs about our society that we have been expounding in this series of editorials were well established long before we published the first issue of Playboy.Early in 1948, as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, we made what proved to be a prophetic comment in a campus magazine that we edited, entitled Shaft. We wrote:"The...
