Working as a copywriter for Esquire, he left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he lent his furniture for $600 and raised $8,000 from 45 investors – including $1,000 from his mother, “Not because she believed in the venture,” he told E! in 2006. “But because she believed in her son” – to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be called Stag Party. The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot.
The rest is history.
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Our buddies over at Gunaxin just published a list of twenty great quotes about beer. In the same vain, we present Banned In Hollywood’s Twenty Great Quotes About Sex.
Starting with number 20…

20. “During sex I fantasize that I’m someone else.”
–Richard Lewis

19. “Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you’re not good at them.”
–Kevin Costner

18. “I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.”
–Leslie Nielsen

17. “Sex always …