History: Hugh Marston Hefner (born Apr. 9, 1926) once recounted that his life as a shy introvert altered totally after he read Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male while attending the University of Illinois in Urbana. Hefner, who had a strict Methodist upbringing, suddenly saw puritanism as a farce and recognized the hypocrisy of American sexual repression. Several years later, this revelation would result in his founding America's greatest magazine-publishing success--Playboy. http://i4.tinypic.com/8e8cegn.gif