This article wasn't interesting until I came across a line which explained that its competitor Penthouse had taken the opposite route toward more crazy sex and crashed. I quote:
Penthouse, perhaps the most famous Playboy competitor, responded to the threat from digital pornography by turning even more explicit. It never recovered.
That is why Playboy is more than sex, way more. It is a brand. Sex could never stand on its own and it always had to belong to something bigger. It could and should be love but more often than not it is perverted in countless ways to such a degree that people are confused.
What Playboy had done is since the 1950s have brought sex outdoors. It was a long journey and I believe it was never Hugh Hefner's intention but there are some potential positive outcomes in future. Because sex is no longer under the sheets and unseen any perversion can now be openly discussed and fixed. Indeed it was through sin that grace is found. Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. Never mind if you think this is misplaced. My take is if you think so, you never understood in the first place. Definitely you have some hang ups as well.
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I thought ST could have used the same magazine cover as the NYT which would suggest history, cultural evolution and depth. They didn't know the lesson from Abercrombie & Fitch, Sex No Longer Sells.
The Christian Right had too little faith in the other no birth cert children of God eh? Well this is actually quite complicated.
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