The Playboy legacy

Now I don't usually comment on the rest of the world's opinions on porn; I try not to think about it when I'm not actively looking for it or blogging here.

But I happened across this article earlier, which, among other things, tells us:

Pornography, Hef still assures us, is an antidote to social and personal troubles rather than an obvious source of them, and his own softer brand of the stuff is in any case so innocuous as to have no harmful social consequences whatever.

Oh, right, I must be imagining it then...

(I should point out that the quote above is reporting Mr Hefner's opinion, and is in fact contrary to the tone of the article itself.)