"...What might get lost in the tornado of centerfolds, airbrushing, and pubic hair we've come to associate with the magazine is that Playboy once boasted some of the best literary and journalistic work ever committed to ink and paper.
On par with the likes of Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and The New Yorker, Hugh Hefner's men's magazine quickly established itself as an editorial powerhouse by paying its contributing writers triple that of its competitors.
This budgetary commitment to quality and the mag's ever-growing cultural clout attracted top writing talent from the worlds of literature, politics, and hard-nosed journalism. Their powerful interviews, fiction, and essays elevated Playboy beyond that of some tawdry titty mags and, in some respects, helped shape the zeitgeist...." -
thehundreds.com
Admittedly a lot of crap can be found on the forum BUT, there are MANY interesting shares from prolific pseudonyms and THAT is what makes the Purple forum worthy of reading and commenting on...and VERY addictive.
Sadly some cannot see it more than a platform for sex ONLY and a 'prostitutes' advertising platform....even me, the 'prostitute' that i am, enjoy a little more than sex sex sex.... x