My fundamental problem with pornography qua pornography is only tangentially related to the coeirciveness of some aspects of the pornography business, and is focused generally on its salient moral, social, cultural, psychological, and, subsuming all of these, spiritual effects, including its historic overarching criminal associations.
Fair enough.
Would you call Hefner's Playboy Philosophy a system of belief "underlying and informing a coherent understanding of the meaning of existence?"
I don't know Hefner's Playboy Philosophy and so I don't really know what to say about it with respect to whether it is or isn't a system of belief underlying and informing a coherent understanding of the meaning of existence. To be perfectly honest, and I mean no disrespect, I'm not sure what a system of belief underlying and informing a coherent understanding of the meaning of existence is. I'd need to have a better understanding of what it is to be a system of belief underlying and informing a coherent understanding of the meaning of existence before I could say whether his Playboy Philosophy is that or not.