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American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)

Also known as: Hef, Hugh M. Hefner, Hugh Marston Hefner, Хью Хефнер, هيو هيفنر, 휴 헤프너

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Thy Neighbor's Wife chronicles the American sexual revolution and Playboy-era culture in long-form journalistic prose (AI reason)
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Helen Gurley Brown1922–2012
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Breezy, frank lifestyle writing on sex and single life that mirrors Playboy's philosophy from a women's-magazine angle (AI reason)
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Alex Comfort1920–2000
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The Joy of Sex offers a candid, liberated, bedside-guide approach to sexuality (AI reason)
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His adult cartoons and travelogues for Playboy share the magazine's irreverent, ribald humor (AI reason)
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Ian Fleming1908–1964
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Bond novels embody the sophisticated bachelor fantasy of cocktails, cars and seduction central to Playboy's image (AI reason)
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Norman Mailer1923–2007
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Provocative mid-century essays on masculinity, sex and American freedom (AI reason)
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Henry Miller1891–1980
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Sexually explicit, censorship-challenging prose central to the free-expression debates Hefner championed (AI reason)
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Alfred Kinsey1894–1956
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Landmark studies of human sexual behavior that underpin the arguments of The Playboy Philosophy (AI reason)
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