Thanks for the chuckle!
Yeah, he didn’t exactly set the best example for society . . . wait, what am I saying :)
There’s always mixed feelings on something like this but even without the laughing about it, the journalistic part of the magazine was interesting because you would get in-depth articles about topics that almost no other magazine at the time took seriously and they gave national exposure (no pun intended) to writers that really were worth reading.
Publishing was a weird business.
There was a time when the post office required “texts” in publications so even comic books had a couple pure text pages.
Additionally the “articles” in Playboy meant that it wasn’t “strictly” an “obscene” publication with “no redeeming content”.