[1] She is acknowledged to be a pioneer in the Italian erotic magazine publishing sector, who contributed to change the social customs Italy from the second half the 1960s.
By launching Playmen, Tattilo engaged publishers (as had Americans Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt) in an ideological battle to liberate sexual attitudes[2] and free them from bigotry and false moralisms.
[1] In 1965 Tattilio and her husband Saro Balsamo broke into publishing with a weekly magazine, Big,[3][2] for teenage boys which answered questions of curiosity about sex.
[1][2] A year later they started Men, a weekly collection of photographs of nude women purchased from Scandinavia[3] or provided by Italian modeling agents.
Tattilo made the decisions at Playmen, including cover girl choices and took risks such as publishing covert paparazzi pictures of Brigitte Bardot sunbathing topless, and of Jackie Kennedy Onassis swimming nude.