What I've Learned About Being A Man

January, 1984

What I've Learned About Being a ManI should have known I was letting myself in for trouble when I agreed to do a piece for the 30th Anniversary Issue of Playboy and the editor who called me mentioned that the magazine had chosen as a subject "The Things I've Learned About Manhood That You Can Learn Only Through Experience." Manhood is a peculiar word in this day and age, objectionable to the ladies and with all sorts of dubious Hemingway overtones, and I was not sure that I wanted to d...