The Playboy Advisor

April, 1975

I am a single young man. Recently, bachelors have been getting a lot of bad press. Apparently, we are a menace to society. We commit 90 percent of all major, violent crimes, we are 22 times more likely to be committed to asylums than married men, we earn about half of what family breadwinners do and we have double the mortality rate of husbands. And, according to George Gilder's Naked Nomads, we have more than a fair share of "mild neurosis, depression, addiction, venereal disease, chronic...