Playboy was never just about the pictures or the articles. The magazine helped create a men’s liberation movement, founded on the notion that men could have anything they wanted. From Donald Trump to Harvey Weinstein, Hugh Hefner’s concept of the “indoor man” has had a lasting influence.

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