Hefner, who founded the sexually explicit men’s lifestyle magazine in 1953, died at his home, the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, the publication announced....Explosive when it first hit the stands, the whole publishing process seems almost touchingly innocent these days in the sense that fewer and fewer people read anything (let alone a magazine) any more and everyone's pretty much on board with the idea that not only are people naked under all those clothes, but they also enjoy sexual intercourse. Oh, and by the way, babies do not come from storks.
The magazine became known for its sexually explicit content, as well as its publication of writers including Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac and Margaret Atwood. Miles Davis was the magazine’s first interview.
Is anything shocking any more? Yes, there are horrors, but "shocking" requires a shared culture and the internet has pretty much done away with that.
I toured the Hollywood mansion once, had friends who worked there. It's not as big as it looks, but can still boast having the largest redwood forest in so-cal.
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