d sury my own conclusions, but by the fact that i came to focus on this topic. i had always been fascinate with the the 1950s, in particular, popular culture. some of my early grad school work was on film, and then i read "the hearts of men," and in that book she talks about the way masculinity was changing after world war ii, and she has a chapter on playboy. so i began to think did this sexually-explicit magazine some people consider pornography -- i don't -- but how did that become mainstream in what was supposedly a very conservative culture? and that was my initial question, and it started out as a paper in a graduate seminar. and it just grew from there because i realized there was so much research potential many this topic. >> yeah. this is probably jumping ahead a little bit but just because you