But, this is a persuasion technique. Make an outrageous claim. That forces the audience to spend time justifying your very point - "Maybe not a third, I could buy a sixth...". End result? People argue about HOW right you are, rather than if you were even correct to begin with.
FWIW, I liked Playboy when I was a teenager and didn't know any better. Now, I think that Hef was a sad old man, who took advantage of his position.
I was dubious as well, but given the degree of sexual perversion in our culture...
It does sound a lot like a projection from a faulty, non-random sample. I don't doubt that it might be a nationwide epidemic but not at that level of infection.