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Playboy Magazine: From Lewdness to Perversion
Townhall.com ^ | October 5, 2021 | Michael Brown

Posted on 10/05/2021 6:59:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 10/05/2021 6:59:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Keep in mind that Playboy headquarters in Chicago was not very far away from the corporate headquarters of Sears, Roebuck AND Montgomery Ward. Another 20th century icon going the way of the others.


2 posted on 10/05/2021 7:02:03 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: Kaslin

They still print Playboy?


3 posted on 10/05/2021 7:03:01 AM PDT by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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Right? I honestly didn’t think that porno rag was still around.


4 posted on 10/05/2021 7:04:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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They should just change the name to Play Boy.

More fitting.


5 posted on 10/05/2021 7:04:46 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin

Sexual perversion is sexual perversion. “Straight porn” or “light porn” is still demonic and damages the souls of anyone involved.


6 posted on 10/05/2021 7:06:10 AM PDT by JoanSmith
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To: Kaslin

Just a natural progress of what started with its first issue. When you start becoming accepting of perversion, the stone only continues to roll down the hill faster and faster. Acceptance of things like cohabitation came prior to the increased acceptance of same-sex marriage, etc. Once you start watering things down, the don’t stop.


7 posted on 10/05/2021 7:07:00 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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A little off-topic, but something occurred to me the other day ...

The sexual revolution was largely driven by The Pill. Oral contraceptives for women allowed a lot of behavior that had previously been held in check. Today we sometimes hear about oral contraceptives that men might take, in order to make them temporarily infertile.

But let’s step beyond fertility.

For how many people is sex a distraction? If teens were to focus on school or sports instead of chasing each other, would the world be better? If single people all took a pill that removed sexual desire, and then, after getting married to a suitable partner, if they stopped taking that pill, and discovered a wonderful, magical world within the confines of a committed marriage, wouldn’t that be nice?

We have birth control — so people can have more sex.
We have viagra — so people can have more sex.

Why doesn’t science ever try to make something so that people could have less sex? So that society could be less sex-obsessed? I think it’s because the global economy is largely driven by sexual unhappiness. Making desire go away, would affect a lot of bank accounts.


8 posted on 10/05/2021 7:08:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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Playboy was not abandoning nude pictorials because society had become more moral. It was abandoning these pictorials because society had become so immoral that Playboy’s relatively mild pornography was no longer a draw. Pornography of the most sordid kind was freely available everywhere, so who needed pictures of nude women in Playboy? Porn was now ubiquitous.

That may be part of it, but I think wokeness also played a part. The left does not think it is normal for a heterosexual male to ogle beautiful women. Sports Illustrated has started featuring fat women and trannies in their swimsuit issue. We're not supposed to ogle women, but we are supposed to look at a magazine cover featuring a naked and pregnant Serena Williams and call it "beautiful".

It is not moral to look at pictures of naked women, but it is normal for young heterosexual males to want to do so. The left is at war with everything that was normal. Now a gay dude dressed as a Playboy bunny is supposed to be normal, and only some sort of homophobic hater would disagree with that.

9 posted on 10/05/2021 7:10:59 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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As People reported, “Social media star Bretman Rock is no stranger to breaking barriers. “The 23-year-old influencer nabbed the cover of Playboy's digital magazine, making him the first openly gay man to don the complete bunny suit for the cover.”


Another "influencer" makes news. What is the career path to becoming a Social media star / influencer?
10 posted on 10/05/2021 7:11:09 AM PDT by Nifty
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Lewd to a prude maybe


11 posted on 10/05/2021 7:11:41 AM PDT by bigbob
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Just call it Gayboy and hail the magazine’s new wokeness. Make it the go to mag for the LGBTQ… crowd. Who would buy that crap anyway other than them? I say eff all dirty sinning, way too overrated.


12 posted on 10/05/2021 7:15:18 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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A few years back (probably when Hugh Hefner died) I saw an interview with a “Bunny” who had recently spent some time at Hefner’s Mansion

She said it interior was worn-out, was in need of repair, had frayed carpets - and smelled like urine.

I remember it because its a very fitting metaphor for what Playboy represents and what the entire movement did to America.


13 posted on 10/05/2021 7:15:28 AM PDT by PGR88
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Playboy is still in publication? I am very surprised.


14 posted on 10/05/2021 7:17:37 AM PDT by Spok (Eschew the politics of envy.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

At least they dressed him as a bunny for Halloween.


15 posted on 10/05/2021 7:18:50 AM PDT by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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We got kicked out of the Garden. That was when marriage started, because we didn’t have Nob’s complete attention and forbearance anymore. “You sinned, now you’re gonna be miserable! Get married and it won’t be quite so bad, but it’ll still be bad! Now get out of my sight!” Before that, there was no marriage or need for marriage. Life was stress-free. Reproduction was not painful or costly.

Live and learn!


16 posted on 10/05/2021 7:19:02 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (#CowboysAndMoslems2021)
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They are just doing this to some press coverage buzz and attention because the “magazine” has tanked financially. It’s a desperation move.


17 posted on 10/05/2021 7:20:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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Only in braille...


18 posted on 10/05/2021 7:20:45 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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The people behind Playboy were always perverts. They downplay to get others to go along.


19 posted on 10/05/2021 7:23:01 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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And Boeing. Boeing is there too and dying a slow death spiral.


20 posted on 10/05/2021 7:23:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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