The Playboy Philosophy

May, 1966

In A Recent Article about us published in Life magazine, the feminist researcher-writer stated:"Hugh Hefner, in his magazine and in his philosophy, has set himself up as an oracle of all that is fine and good and clean in man's relationship with woman. And, he insists, unmarried sex is one of the finest, cleanest, best parts of it—as long as it is by mutual desire and consent and nobody gets hurt."That last is where the rub comes. Hefner talks a great deal about equality for everybody,...