Excerpts from Hugh M. Hefner's
The
Playboy Philosophy
A Matter of Sex
(1) “At the heart of most of the criticism of Playboys contents
we find that of devil sex. … We must confess at the outset that
we do not consider sex either sacred
or profane. And as a normal and not
uninteresting aspect of the urban scene, we think it
perfectly permissible to treat the subject either seriously or with
satire and good humor as suits the particular situation.
For some it is the pictures that offend—the
full-color full-bosomed Playmates and their photographic
sisters who apparently show off too much bare skin to please
a part of the public. That another sizable portion
of the citizenry, numbering in the several million, is obviously
pleased as punch by this display of photogenic pulchritude
is—for the moment—besides the point. We'd like to make our
case on merits other than mathematical ones.
It was disconcerting when we first discovered that many of those who
consider nudity and obscenity nearly synonymous often drag God's
name into the act—this struck us and strikes us still
as a particularly blatant bit of blasphemy.
The logic
that permits a person to call down God's wrath
on anyone for displaying a bit of God's own handiwork
does we must admit escape us. If the human body—
far and away the most remarkable, the most complicated,
the most perfect, and the most beautiful
creation on this earth—can become objectionable,
obscene or abhorrent when purposely
posed and photographed to
capture that remarkable perfection and beauty,
then the world is a far more cockeyed place
than we are willing to admit .”
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