Just hours after Hugh Hefner died, the first think-pieces about his legacy and his impact on popular culture appeared. Some argued that Hefner and Playboy magazine were central to sexual liberation; others took the position that Hefner was a lecherous misogynist who exploited women to make his fortune.

I'm not going to rehash these here - you-ll have read them. What interests me is that they were so very divisive. The reason why so many people got into heated exchanges about a man most of us had never met, who started a magazine that nobody reads anymore, is because we do not live in a sexually liberated world. Whatever role Hefner may have played - for good or for bad - sexual liberation is an incomplete project.

Just because you can buy condoms and have a one-night stand if you choose doesn't mean we live in a world where sexual freedom is a given. Let's look at the evidence.