[Claud]

It wasn't girly-men who read Playboy. It were men scarred by battle; the forests of the Ardennes, the beaches of Normandy, the jungles of Guadalcanal, the hills of Korea, who said, "I've seen how quickly this all can end. I'd like to see Marilyn Monroe naked."

They ALL did that? Every single GI did that? Or were there there the nerdy guys writing letters back home to their sweethearts?

So basically you are justifying this moral outlook: "life is meaningless and full of suffering, so I'll just gratify my sex drive."

If you don't see how that attitude *directly* contributed to today's girly men, well then you ain't payin attention. You give an inch on lust and it will eat you alive. Christ told us that two thousand years ago, of course, we're too smart to believe such things today.

[Drew68]

They ALL did that? Every single GI did that? Or were there there the nerdy guys writing letters back home to their sweethearts?

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.