I keep turning a thought over and over in my head: What would we think of Hugh Hefner if he was 27 years old today and just founding Playboy? The concept would be utterly ridiculous – more so than it was in 1953. Back then, you could pretend that a respectable man would be interested in stories by Vladimir Nabokov and also ogling pictures of naked women.
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