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 has consequences. When Hitler’s mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.”

–George Carlin

16. “It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.”

–Drew Carey

15. “If it wasn’t for pick-pockets and frisking at airports I’d have no sex life at all.”

–Rodney Dangerfield

14. “Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy.”

–Steve Martin

13. “Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night.”

–Woody Allen

12. “It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

–Marilyn Monroe

11. “My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.”

–Woody Allen

10. “It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.”

–Winston Churchill

9. “When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”

–Matt Groening

8. “The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.”

–Brendan Francis

7. “There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn’t get laid.”

–Denis Leary

6. “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”

–Edgar Wallace

5. “I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.”

–Woody Allen

4. “We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.”

–Robin Williams

3. “Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.”

–Steve Martin

2. “My girlfriend said to me in bed last night’ ‘you’re a pervert’ I said, ‘that’s a big word for a girl of nine’.”

–Emo Philips

1. “If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex.”

–Kate Beckinsale