Yes, Claud, a whole bunch of guys read Playboy. Some of them even while writing letters back home to their sweethearts.
You see, there is a reason the words "publishing empire" are often used when talking about Hugh Hefner and his magazine. It is because Playboy in it's heyday, was massively popular. It was popular because people, primarily men, most of whom were veterans, were buying the magazine.
I find it odd that we are supposed to praise the courage of the Greatest Generation while cursing the moral degenerates who read Playboy. They were the same men.
Believe me, I am starting to recognize that more and more. I'm a Gen Xer so I'm inclined to blame the Boomers for everything going wrong in the 60s, but I also know they were too young to have actually started it.
I knew there HAD to be something off about the "Greatest Generation" that caused this, and thanks to this discussion with you I am starting to see what.
I actually am in agreement with your main thesis about the War and the Sexual Revolution. Where I differ is that far from liberating us from Puritanism, I think it has destroyed our country.