I have a good number of old 1920s/30s “Film Fun” and “Movie Humor” type magazines. No nudity. Lots of cheesecake pin-up photos, with smiling showgirls and starlets. And corny jokes. Cute, upbeat stuff.
“Playboy” on the other hand, always seemed rather pathetic, even back in its earlier days of the 1950s/60s, as it pushed that faux-stylish (but in reality, boorish and self-absorbed) ‘lifestyle’ of booze, immorality, adultery and such. It actively promoted this worldview and mindset. And it just got more putrid and more decadent as the years passed. Hefner is a true scuzz. People like him contributed mightily to making America and its culture the repellent, deranged sewer that it has now become.
“Playboy” on the other hand, always seemed rather pathetic,..........”
You are not imagining the change. Hefner had read Dr. Kinsey’s report, and believed all the lies. Hefner said I’m going to be Kinsey’s “pamphleteer”. That is what he’s done with Playboy.