My Life Is An Open

Life And Values Do Run In Cycles.

If You Don't Encourage Healthy Sexual Expression In Public, You Get Unhealthy Sexual Expression In Private. If You Attempt To Suppress Sex In Books, Magazines, Movies And Even Everyday Conversation, You Aren't Helping To Make Sex More Private, Just More Hidden. You're Keeping Sex In The Dark. What We've Tried To Do Is Turn On The Lights.

Playboy, Very Clearly, From The Outset, Has Fought Against The Historical Repression Of Women. The Notion That We Were Anywhere Else Simply Defies The Reality.

The Puritans Thought They Could Simply Repress Man's Sexual Nature, And They Reaped A Whirlwind As A Result. Their Code Of Sexual Morality - Which Became America's - Was Nothing More Than A Set Of Rules Laid Down By People Who Believed That All Pleasure Was Suspect.

I Didn't Want To Repeat My Parents Life. I Saw In Their Lives A Routine And A Lack Of Dreaming, A Lack Of The Possibilities, A Lack Of Passion. And I Didn't Want To Live Without Passion.