Behind Quote by Hugh Hefner

'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to…

— Hugh Hefner

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the…

— Hugh Hefner

I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was…

— Hugh Hefner

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic…

— Hugh Hefner

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…

— Hugh Hefner

I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.

— Christie Hefner

Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's what it…

— Greg Gutfeld

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the…

— Hugh Hefner

You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the…

— Wesley Morris

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that…

— Wesley Morris

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of…

— Hugh Hefner

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

— Christie Hefner