[BatGuano]

Larry Flynt was a pig. Case closed, end of argument end of story.
He was the “dirty” Hugh Hefner.
Both of the magazines were the first “soft porn,” but not the last and neither Flynt nor Hefner were ever “revered.”
Yes, the worst kind of pervert would revere Flynt!

[SamAdams76]

Don't forget Bob Guccione, the founder of PENTHOUSE magazine. He was in the trio of 1970s pornographers including Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt.

I regret to say that as a teenager, I regularly read all three magazines, Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse.

I outgrew all three (along with MAD magazine) but out of all of these three, Penthouse was probably the classiest. I especially like the Forum section of Penthouse which was letters from readers, if I recall. Wild stuff.