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Topic: Hugh Hefner

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his fiance Crystal Harris arrives at Stansted Airport on June 2, 2011 in Stansted, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Widow says Hugh Hefner was bad at sex

Joy Saha
Ines Rau (Getty/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)

Playboy names its first trans Playmate

Rachel Leah
Hugh Hefner; Jared Leto (Star Max/Goodwin/AP/Andy Kropa)

Jared Leto to play Hefner in biopic

Gabriel Bell
Playboy Bunnies, 1966 (AP/Anthony Camerano)

The complexity of Cold War masculinity

Chelsea Barnett - The Conversation
Hugh Hefner (AP/Carlos Rene Perez)

Hefner & the art history of naked ladies

Noah Charney
(AP Photo, File)

Hugh Hefner damaged women's lives

Liz Posner - Alternet
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
(Lucy Nicholson / Reuters)

Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder, dead at 91

Jeremy Binckes
Playboy Bunnies, 1966 (AP/Anthony Camerano)

My Playboy Club education

Mary Beth Evens
(Playboy)

Playboy embarrassed by Trump

Charlie May
Bill Cosby (AP/Matt Rourke)

It's far from over for Cosby

Gabriel Bell

Asha Parker

No nipples required

Rachel Kramer Bussel
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Our Cosby delusions, undone

Sonia Saraiya
Holly Madison, left, and Hugh Hefner (Associated Press/Matt Sayles)

Jenny Kutner
A photo of the author (Rex Bonomelli)

My Playboy adventure

Amy Grace Loyd
Image courtesy Marfa Public Radio and used with permission

Lauren Klotzman - Hyperallergic
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Associated Press
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-751606p1.html'>Joe Seer</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Why is Hef getting hitched?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Lauren Kelley
(AP Photo, File)

Brilliant Careers: Hugh Hefner, the indefatigable swinger

Chris Colin
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