“Hefner and his crew did not use government money to corrupt the culture. That was done entirely in the private sector. And that makes them worse than the public sector corrupters.”
Hefner didn’t have the force and guns of government to force his magazine, lifestyle, or anything related to his enterprise on others. The government has guns, thugs, courts to force their will on you.
Your damning indictment of Hefner, and his crasser imitators, and their customers, supports my point. Hefner et al. found a way to corrupt the culture without depending on the force of laws, and guns, and polizei. Far more destructive.
IMO.