This is basically it. Playboy's writers were essentially unsupervised, which is why in its golden age it had a lot of legitimately good articles/interviews alongside the softcore porn.
Hefner was a gross sex creep but he was actually fairly progressive on LGBT stuff. He hired a lot of gay writers during a time when being openly gay got you blacklisted.
Hugh Hefner being woke? wtf
doubt heffner actually wrote this bit. he just rolled around in cash in the grotto like scrooge mcduck while the magazine ran itself
This is basically it. Playboy's writers were essentially unsupervised, which is why in its golden age it had a lot of legitimately good articles/interviews alongside the softcore porn.
The dream
Hefner was a gross sex creep but he was actually fairly progressive on LGBT stuff. He hired a lot of gay writers during a time when being openly gay got you blacklisted.
During the 80's, Hefner and Larry Flynt did more for the american left than chomsky did.