"Knocking down the boundaries: that's what the Playboy philosophy is all about," Mr. Hefner said.

We have mastered the Playboy philosophy.

The Playboy philosophy, he said, is "quite contradictory" to what he stands for himself.

And that, if memory serves, pretty much describes Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy.

Even if no one dares tell the emperor to put his clothes on, his daughter is pulling the Playboy philosophy into the 21st century.

Most are published through licensing agreements in which foreign publishers use the Playboy brand name and agree to publish content that hews to the Playboy philosophy.

Mr. Field seems intent on making the world safe for the last stalwarts of the Playboy philosophy.

Inspired by natural speculations, Playboy philosophies - convivial, libertine, worshiping Bacchus and Venus - proliferated among the better off.

In 1962, when "Dr. No" was released, he embodied a British variant of the Playboy philosophy and offered a dashing, debonair answer to cold war anxieties.

That seems an act of apostasy for the man who propounded the "Playboy philosophy" of unfettered hedonism.