(October 15, 2015 at 8:23 am)abaris Wrote:(October 14, 2015 at 11:38 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You'd be surprised. They've been doing things other than porn from the beginning. Christ, they published short stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, and P.G. Wodehouse, for crying out loud!
First, they never did porn. I'm always amazed when the word porn is used in the American sense, which covers anything between exposed nipple to gang bang.
Second, I'm well aware which authors wrote for Playboy. And still, it didn't sell for nearly a decade. So why should that suddenly change when getting rid of their USP?
Have you seen any 1970s british "porn" you see harder stuff on normal tv now.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
