The 84-year-old Playboy founder frequently dates much younger women and though 20-year-old Cooper Hefner insists he has always been comfortable with his dad`s unusual lifestyle, he isn`t always happy about his dates.

Cooper said: "What can I say? Dad is Dad - and the Playboy Mansion is home. I`ve never known anything else, so to me it`s normal - as ridiculous as that sounds.

"Although it is a little weird now that some of Dad`s girlfriends are actually younger than me."

However, Cooper - whose three-year relationship with an English girl came to an end last year - insists he and his dad won`t compete over women because they have different tastes.

He added to Britain`s Glamour magazine: "I`m not a blondes fan usually. I`ve grown up surrounded by beautiful - or what people class as beautiful - women and this whole Playboy lifestyle, and it almost makes you look for something else. I don`t want someone who will just sit there on my arm - I want someone I can chat politics with."
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