Something has gone wrong with the men in our society. The problemsrange from the poignant--like the pain and bewilderment of womenapproaching their forties wondering why they can't find husbands--whilethe men in their lives are emotionally immature and phobic aboutcommitment--to the tragic, gruesome, and evil: divorce, wife battering,the feminization of poverty, and daily news reports of macabre sexcrimes involving the torture and murder of children.The statistics are almost unprecedented in history. What happened?"Soft Porn" Plays Hardball, by Judith Reisman, Ph.D., lays the blamesquarely at the feet of the so-called "Soft Porn" industry led by HughHefner and his imitators. This book, published in 1991, has been a bitof a sleeper, but its message needs to be shouted from the housetops.Her arguments are so clear, lucid, and obvious that the reader islikely to pause and wonder, "How was this allowed to happen?" "How didwe not see this before?" Hugh Hefner has enjoyed a peculiar immunity forthe last forty years.He is after all a "Playboy" --seen as a lovable rogue, and like hismagazine, a bit naughty but harmless. Reisman calls the reader to takeanother look.She chronicles how the once average-young-man Hefner was galvanizedin the early fifties by the fraudulent Kinsey Report (See Reisman'searlier work Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People,Huntington House), and proceeded to single-handedly overturn the sexualmores of his time.On page 25 Reisman quotes Hefner: "Playboy freed a generation fromguilt about sex, changed some laws and helped launch a revolution ortwo... Playboy is the magazine that changed America."Reisman's findings prove Hefner exactly right, but rather thandeserving the applause Hefner expects, the results have beencatastrophic.