I don’t get this. We should be happy with Hefner because he didn’t go too far? Because his pornography was not the so called hard core?
It’s bizarre. Is this an example of “damning with faint praise”?
The article is confusing and confused.
But people around today probably wouldn't feel comfortable in the world of the 1940s and 1950s because we've been shaped by all the other decades, so in a sense, people like Hefner created the world that we live in, and it's a world that we can be more comfortable in because it's our world. Maybe that's it. Or maybe it's not what he meant and even more confusing than what he wrote.
The other thing is that all the people obsessed with porn now would be acting out their fantasies on real people, rather than with illustrated magazines or pixelated images, and that would be more dangerous. Also, whatever you can say about Hef he was certainly in tune with the kind of individualism and consumerism that advanced capitalist economies make possible.
Read my text again. He started this process. In the 50s, this was considered extreme.
The author of this article is a retard.