Opinion: New documentary about Playboy founder reveals secrets in plain sight

When Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died in 2017 aged 91, he was remembered — even celebrated by some — as a father of the sexual revolution. To many, he was the pajama-wearing, pipe-smoking king of a thousand parties — and, reportedly, a thousand partners — who, in his own words, “decontaminated the notion of premarital sex.”

When Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died in 2017 aged 91, he was remembered — even celebrated by some — as a father of the sexual revolution. To many, he was the pajama-wearing, pipe-smoking king of a thousand parties — and, reportedly, a thousand partners — who, in his own words, “decontaminated the notion of premarital sex.”