"The girls that are available to us and this industry are much prettier than they were in the past...I think they're less concerned about taking their clothes off. In the early days women were very concerned about taking their clothes off publicly. But today it seems so much more natural. Somehow there's much less resistance. A lot of the girls are more interested in doing it because they believe it can be helpful to their career in show business...there's so much benefit in controversy today where there wasn't before."

- Bob Guccione, October 1999

"Unlike most guys, when I see a pretty girl the thing that I immediately think of is not how she looks to me, but how she would look to my readership. In other words, what is her centerfold potential?"

- Bob Guccione, October 1999