He wanted to mainline porn into the bloodstream of society. He succeeded and built an empire
Then he had to watch as the Internet made ever more hard core porn ubiquitous and cheap. It destroyed his empire. I’d bet that not many millennials of the male persuasion have ever seen a Playboy centerfold
Your definition of porn vis-a-vis Playboy was already well into the mainstream long before Playboy came along. There’s no difference between the typical Playboy photo spread and what appeared in paintings by so many collected artists of the previous 500 years.
Playboy wasn’t about the ‘porn’, it was about the lifestyle that we now know to be full of irresponsibility and risk.