Playboy also airbrushed their models to the point that you couldn’t tell if you were looking at a real person or not.
Decidedly un-sexy.
I think what has really killed playboy is the girls next door show. It completely tore apart the mystique and mystery of the playboy mansion and what goes on there.
When you had one of those girls actually invite her mom and dad to come visit. They are all sitting there by the pool talking and she's telling her Dad about how she's working on her pole dancing technique to please Hef more. Then Hef shows up looking like some some dirty old man in his robe and captains hat to talk to the parents. The creepy factor was off the chart.
The place is also stocked with hookers to service Hef's friends who hang around the mansion. You can see from that show how high the business overhead is for Hefs crumbling empire.
I heard a few months ago that Hef had put the property he owned next door so his playmate ex-wife could raise their two children. He listed it at a whopping 26 million in one of the worst real estate markets Beverly Hills has had in decades. I saw pictures of it. It wasn't very impressive. No way he was going to get that asking price and who would really want to pay that sum to live next to that 3 ring circus unless you were some horndog.