Thursday, September 28, 2017
Hugh
Hefner paid his writers well. A lot them wouldn't have been able to get
by, but when they needed some money they could whump up a short story,
or do some reportage-- usually on Playboy's expense account-- and then
cash a nice check. That's important. I'm not so sure that the mid 20th
century writers he published sent Playboy their best work, but I
certainly read some pretty good stuff in it.
Culturally we have probably/mostly outgrown the Playboy Philosophy, and Hef himself turned into a lascivious cartoon, but on balance it seems to me that American attitudes about sex have evolved a great deal in the last half century, and Playboy had a lot to do with that.
Culturally we have probably/mostly outgrown the Playboy Philosophy, and Hef himself turned into a lascivious cartoon, but on balance it seems to me that American attitudes about sex have evolved a great deal in the last half century, and Playboy had a lot to do with that.
// posted by Bill @ 4:03 PM 
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