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.

There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls.

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.