I Posed for Playboy

I was eighteen. I was a feminist. How did that even happen?

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It started with a small ad in the campus newspaper. “Models wanted.” Followed, in short order, by a big article in that same newspaper, decrying the small ad and all that it stood for.

It was UC Berkeley, after all; and even though it was the heart of the Reagan Eighties, Berkeley still held fast to its…