The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

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

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

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