[MadIvan]

I have a better statistic - apparently the pornographic film industry now makes more money than Hollywood.

That was simply not the case before Hefner came onto the scene.

Regards, Ivan

[MineralMan]

"I have a better statistic - apparently the pornographic film industry now makes more money than Hollywood.

That was simply not the case before Hefner came onto the scene. "

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Or it could have been television, or the Chrysler Corp's first Hemi engine. Lots of things happened in the 1950s. Hefner was the first one to put out a magazine with photos of nude women that reached the newsstands. That was about it, though. Porn existed long, long before Playboy.

[bk1000]

"...apparently the pornographic film industry now makes more money than Hollywood."

This was a result of the privacy offered by home video. Once people could view it in their homes rather than a seedy sticky theater they yielded to their curiosity. The operative word there is privacy. The bombardment of porn from the internet is intrusive.