That’s a HUGE stretch there, David…and I don’t think it’s accurate. The problem with Black fathers and families was there before Hef and was hardly exasperated by Playboy magazine’s nude pictures. I can think of a dozen more reasons that have nothing to do with Playboy.
Hef was a product of his time, and just stayed in that “neverland” of a hedonistic college fraternity kid, forever partying, forever going with younger and younger women as girlfriends as he grew old, and his magazine (for the most part) has stayed geared toward that white 20-30 year-old, WHITE demographic.
He made it “classy” (again, for the most part) to enjoy the female nude figure, took porn out of the back-room Stag parties and peep-shows, and took on the role of the Prince of Pleasure, the ultimate American-male fantasy-life made real… and he has stayed true to his “calling” all these years.
All the other crap of the 60′s and the sexual revolution would have happened just as well without Hef…he just rode the wave for all it was worth!
