The Playboy Mystique

The Thread With OZY by OZY

Mar 19, 201830:12Society & Culture

Riding the wave of the sexual revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, Hugh Hefner created a male fantasy world in the pages of his Playboy magazine, one that would have lasting consequences for American life and culture. Behi...

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