Playboy founder Hugh Hefner likes tits, old movies, and BLT’s … though not necessarily in that order. He’s?very, very?old and?and has nailed lots of women. These are a few of the spellbinding insights revealed in?a feature?article on Hef in Esquire’s April issue.
Hef estimates that he has slept with “over a thousand” ladies in his lifetime, which is impressive to say the least (unless, of course, you compare it to Wilt Chamberlain’s crotch-numbing 20,000). In the Esquire interview, Hugh claims that he was faithful during his marriages, but made up for lost time when he was single.
“There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn’t married. You have to keep your hand in.”
Let’s do the math, shall we? Hugh is currently 86 years old, just about?to turn 87. A few years ago, he told the New York Times that he lost his virginity at age 22. He has been married three times for roughly a combined twenty years. (Hef’s second marriage legally spanned twenty-one years on its own, but his wife and he?were formally separated after just ten … so for these purposes, we’ll go with the ten, which adds up to?approximately twenty years altogether.)
That leaves 44 of his 86 years during which he could have been spreading love … which equates to 22 or 23 women annually. Keep in mind that this doesn’t count for repeat performances … it’s 22 to 23 distinct women every year. For such a weird little gremlin of a man, that’s pretty inspirational.
As portrayed in the article, Hef?suffers from pretty intense control issues and structures his life around exacting routines. The most bizarre information revealed in the article is the extent of Hef’s?old-womanly obsession with scrap-booking. He holds the Guinness World Record for having the largest collection of personal scrapbooks, with over 2,600 volumes. Seriously. Weird and obsessive, but as the founder of Playboy, we can forgive him some minor eccentricities.
Basically, Hef is a pervy old dude who has led a pretty magical life … filled with?all the full-frontal nudity a person could dream of. And then some.