In short, since all the prurience and debauchery was going on sub rosa, Hef and other factors liberated us all.I see the sexual revolution primarily as a byproduct of the massive, incalculable carnage and human waste of WWII, a war that Hugh Hefner was a part of. This shifting of priorities and moral values in the face of such arbitrary death and destruction paved the way for an environment conducive to Playboy magazine. Indeed, it would be battle-hardened war veterans, many still in their 20s when the first issue hit the newsstands in 1953, who would make Hef a cultural icon.
Indeed, it would be battle-hardened war veterans, many still in their 20s when the first issue hit the newsstands in 1953, who would make Hef a cultural icon. That would be these same men, right, from 1959?
This is classic theological effeminacy: an aversion to anything that diminishes pleasure. Can't even be bothered to show up to church AT EASTER.
I am not taking away what these men did at Normandy, Midway, or Guadalcanal, but too many of these "battle-hardened" vets came home and became completely effeminate with regard to their duties before God and raising their children. See that boy learning an important lesson about how important God is? Ten years later he was probably a little leftist punk writing in the mud at Woodstock.