[Snickering Hound]

Hugh Hefner was proud of having helped destigmatize sex outside of marriage. Once that taboo was gone, the floodgates opened. The misery that followed included the deaths of millions of unborn babies from abortion. This article is appalling.

Absolutely. Before 1953 and Playboy people never had affairs outside marriage...

[utahagen]

Are you kidding? On the following point, Hugh Hefner and I were/are in agreement: American society used to uphold the ideal that sex was for marriage, that people should remain virgins until they marry. That was the IDEAL, although, of course, people often fell short of the ideal. That was still the ideal in 1950, but the Sexual Revolution changed that by, say, 1970. Factors contributing to the Sexual Revolution included the birth control pill and Playboy magazine, which paved the way for more provocative forms of pornography. Hugh Hefner takes a big share of the credit for the Sexual Revolution, credit he deserves. Your responding that I had implied nobody ever had sex outside of marriage before 1953 was inane.

[RipSawyer]

“Absolutely. Before 1953 and Playboy people never had affairs outside marriage...”

Well, I certainly never did any such thing before 1953! Of course, that may be because I was not born until 1944.