The Playboy Forum

August, 1981

Consenting CapitalistsWhen reading both Playboy and these letters to the editor, I find an amazing double standard. How is it that one can claim freedom for oneself in the bedroom and, at the same time, deny freedom for others in the market place? One would expect Playboy and its readers to be the champions of both the ethics and the economics of laissez faire, not defenders of one and antagonists of the other.In any case, the all-important ethical question remains: Are capitalist acts between c...