Makes my skin crawl to think I used to respect him.

For a long time Hefner cultivated an air of something like innocence around the magazine. Playmates were “the girl next door”, remember.

But things started to change when the drug culture became more prevalent. When he moved to California, and “next door” was LA instead of Chicago.

Of course, it was all illusion. Hefner began reshaping his real life into his fantasies. Blatant. And as America was swinging in the other direction…..