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1953 The first issue of Playboy hits the newsstands, with Hugh Hefner's nod to every American man's fantasy, the girl next door, posing demurely topless in a pull-out centerfold. Airbrushed and implant-free, she looks positively chaste compared to today's typical ad for vacuum cleaners or investment advice.

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1962 Timmie Jean Lindsey enters a Houston, Texas, hospital to have floral tattoos removed from her breasts and, after pioneering doctors offer augmentation surgery for free, becomes the first U.S. woman to receive silicone breast implants. It will be years before breast implants come under FDA regulation.