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I've spent years looking at what was actually in Playboy, and it wasn't just objectification of women

  • Written by Carrie Pitzulo, Adjunct Instructor of History, Colorado State University

Over the nearly 70 years since Hugh Hefner, who died recently at the age of 91, laid out the first issue of Playboy on his kitchen table, the magazine and his personal lifestyle embodied the ultimate expression of heterosexual male privilege and sexual freedom.

Because he was surrounded by young, beautiful women well into old age, celebrants saw...

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