Hefner was the case of a man whose emotional and sexual development was arrested at about age 14 and never progressed beyond this, other than to slide into various perversions to revive his flagging libido. He was also a liberal leftist with a social agenda to destroy American culture and American morality. He wanted to bring about an "anything goes" culture of unlimited sexual perversion and drug use, and he and his atheistic Jewish friends in the porn business succeeded in achieving their goal. They destroyed traditional American culture and traditional morality. What an achievement, right? Look what it has brought us. Perversion, degeneracy, corruption, and decay. Lucky us.

I saw Hefner has more a acolyte of Ayn Rand. He was merely following through on her theory of objectivism. He had a good life by most standards but not a life of much substance.