5. Much of National Review was a form of political pornography: if only the right could take charge we could kick commie ass.
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6. Political fantasies of Nat. Rev. not that different from Playboy's promise that with the right pad you could bag all the bunnies.
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7. Unjustly forgotten novelist D. Keith Man wrote for both Hefner & WFB, appreciated both as editors with taste for good prose.
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8. Hefner & WFB were good talent scouts & gave space to many fine writers (sometimes overlapping like Mano or Theodore Sturgeon).
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9. There's an early Woody Allen movie where National Review is kept in a plastic bag among the porn magazines.
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10. The way some National Review writers dabbled in sexually explicit writing (Mano, Sturgeon, Davenport, WFB himself) perhaps related.
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11. In WFB first novel the Yale/CIA hero shags the Queen of England -- a Tory fantasy if there ever was one.
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12. National Review editor Jeffrey Hart wrote an interesting defense of porn (ran in Partisan Review in 1980s). Worth looking up.
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13. Hart essay on porn can be found here: http://hgar-pub1.bu.edu/web/partisan-review/search-collection/detail/331538 … (h/t
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14. In letter in Peter Bagge's Hate, fan claimed his favorite magazines were Hustler, National Review & Hate. Some commonality there.
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15. Despite all this, I would still maintain that Hefner was, for all his manifold flaws, a more ethical & politically sound figure than WFB
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