Here’s a follow-up to my mini-review last week of NBC’s The Playboy Club: a Daily Beast article, “My Mom’s Life as a Playboy Bunny,” by Susanna Spier. Spier interviews her mother about what things were really like. Was Hugh Hefner’s comment — that bunnies could be anything they wanted to be — accurate? Ha.

We had only a handful of options, and being a Bunny was a brand-new one. … Teacher, nurse, stewardess, secretary. Bunny increased our options by 20 percent. It didn’t mean we could be brain surgeons. Hef’s dots do not connect.

So why did she do it? Duh: for the money.

E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).