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Hugh Hefner Biography

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American businessman, magazine publisher and playboy. He was the founder of Playboy and editor-in-chief of the magazine, which he founded in 1953. He was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, which is the publishing group that operates the magazine. An advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist and philanthropist in several other causes and public issues.

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It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

Anymore, Censor, Difficult

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.

Book, Books, Dark, Everyday, Sex, Suppress

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Affects, Different, Information, Littles, People, Way

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

Anderson, Differences, Early, Marilyn, Monroe, Pamela

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

Change, Life, Managed, Social, Thinking, Values

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Films, Missing, Party, Twenties

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

Generations, Notion, Objects, Sex, Skirts, World

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Keeps, Surrounding, Young

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

Years, Years Ago, Way, Younger, Ways

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

Beautiful, Bizarre, Notion, Photograph, Showed

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Age, Depression, Magic, Mind, Raised, Timer

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

Boy, Boys, Dream, Dreams, Optimistic, Stay

Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.

Dream, Fulfilling, Magazine, Possible, Sex, Teenager

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Changing, Fun, Significant, Social, Values

It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.

Concept, Experience, Feminine Beauty, Men, Views, Women

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

Impact, Remembered, Sociosexual, Thinking, Values

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

Cooking, Farm, Folks, Home, Like, People

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Differences, Essentially, Marilyn, Men, Styles, Views

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Ifs, Let, Peers, Playboy, Society

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Actually, Guy, Moral

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