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For a girl in her line of business, it’s a built-in perk that her favorite thing is to be nude—which sometimes gets her in trouble.

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These looked like women who knew what they wanted. Women who weren’t ashamed of their sexuality. And I wanted to be one of them.

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To the girl who changed me, I thank you. For if it wasn’t for you, I’ll still be out there collecting broken hearts like a tax collector.

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“The ol’ fashioned way—I walked in on my parents.”

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1. The longest pubic hair in history was 28 inches.

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Holly estimates that “the majority” of playmates have had sex with Hef.

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“The white man gave you the vote. He Christianized you and taught you how to speak English. If it weren’t for him, you’d still be living in a hut.”

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I run through the list of possible alternatives: I can feel your moods? foods? cubes? nudes? glutes? The latter might make sense, but only if we were in the reverse cowgirl position. We aren’t.

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It is no secret that our society seeks immediate gratification, but it was not necessarily his recognition of an immoral action that stuck with me, rather the shame he expressed so profoundly.

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‘Playboy’ had the added benefit of explicitly and more or less effortlessly linking high culture — wine, food, jazz — with the very epitome of masculinity, virility.