Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefneris an American adult magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. Hefner is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a former journalist for Esquire. Hefner is also a World War II veteran. He is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made multi-millionaire, he is now worth over $43 million, because of his success for creating the Playboy magazine. Hefner is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 April 1926
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
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.
For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.