Why Conservatives Should Celebrate Hugh Hefner

Breitbart ^ | Sep 29 2017 | by Joel B. Pollak

[drewh]

He was the kind of person American conservatism seeks to enable — the self-made man; the radical, pajama-clad individual; the author of his own destiny. And he idealized women as women, in a way the left no longer allows.

Ironically, when given the choice of going full-throttle into hard-core pornography, and creating the kind of content the market now demanded, or bowing to mainstream traditional standards that shunned nudity on supermarket shelves, Playboy made the more conservative choice. Even in the battle to survive commercially, there were lines Hugh Hefner would not cross. He thus took his place alongside the very conservatives he once mocked earlier.

That does not mean Hefner was a conservative. But Hefner personified the famous promise at the heart of the Declaration of Independence — that this Republic would be devoted to the “pursuit of Happiness.” He pursued that ideal in an age when the left insisted on grievance and misery. He lived an eccentric life. But in the end, he gave up the thrill of girlfriends for the love of one wife. He challenged social conventions, but he also, perhaps despite himself, affirmed the eternal truth that women are women, and there are moral limits.

Hefner’s victory came with a loss — namely, the institution that was Playboy itself. Our culture now rejects the ideal of feminine beauty that Playboy once promoted, regarding it as a form of oppression rather than liberation.

But that feminine ideal lives on — not in the pages of Playboy, but in the imaginations of millions of quietly dissenting adults in the world Hefner helped create. However he is judged, Hefner changed us all.

[Responsibility2nd]

Why Conservatives LIBERALTARIANS Should Celebrate Hugh Hefner

Fixed it.

[DiogenesLamp]

Pollack's defense of BunnyBoy shows the flaw. By rejecting the moral Natural Law embedded in Christianity, a people leaves itself open to totalitarianism.

Exactly. He was a termite devouring the foundation of our society. That others were worse termites does not excuse him.

[allendale]

He was America’s most innovative and preeminent pimp. Make no mistake. He was a neo pagan, epicurean hedonist who contributed mightily to the social rot of America.

[vladimir998]

“Why Conservatives Should Celebrate Hugh Hefner”

No. Just no.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hefner normalized pornography, brought it out of the shadows.

The first slip on the slippery slope.

[DiogenesLamp]

But yes the bottom line is that no one forced these women to pose nude.

But he helped to create the environment where such a thing was seen as acceptable. The Judeo-Christian society which we had prior to this was as a result damaged by encouraging sleazy behavior.

Hefner opened the door of social acceptance, and both the girls and society would have been better off if that acceptance had remained unassailed.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Toward the end of his life, Hef was just plain creepy. Popping Viagra, a new 20 year old bimbo every couple months. His life-end was cheap, pathetic and hollow.

[Snickering Hound]

We must look at the impact of Playboy in the porn industry. It legitimized porn and brought it into the mainstream of America.

There were pinups and calendars in offices, garages, and barracks long before Hefner and Playboy came along.

And yes, with racier pics than this that can't be posted here.

Pre 1953 America wasn't nearly as innocent as you believe

[right way right]

No.

[utahagen]

Hugh Hefner was proud of having helped destigmatize sex outside of marriage. Once that taboo was gone, the floodgates opened. The misery that followed included the deaths of millions of unborn babies from abortion. This article is appalling.

[Balding_Eagle]

What reasons?

I see it is a difficult assignment to read the first sentence, so I will quote them exactly:

— the self-made man; the radical, pajama-clad individual; the author of his own destiny.

Refute at least one in light of the title of the article "Why Conservatives Should Celebrate Hugh Hefner"

PS, don't allow continued hatred to blind you.

[DanielleLavender]

I wholeheartedly agree. He also debated with Buckley on Firing Line.

[DanielleLavender]

I wholeheartedly agree. He also debated with Buckley on Firing Line.

[JimSEA]

Hefner was a hedonist and a very shallow one at that in spite Playboy’s of
pretentious.

[utahagen]

It's not to their credit that Buckley and Limbaugh gave legitimacy to Hugh Hefner by publishing in Playboy. The pornography Hefner promoted may have been mild compared to the garbage Larry Flynt pedaled, yet Playboy was pornography nonetheless. We should spare a prayer for Hefner's soul, but we should not minimize the seriousness of his sins.

[beergarden]

Amen. No problem with this angle. Hefner showed hot nekkid women. Men love hot nekkid women. What’s the problem?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Has anyone heard of Marquis de Sade. 200 years before Hef. Graphic porn existed long before Hef.

[Snickering Hound]

Hugh Hefner was proud of having helped destigmatize sex outside of marriage. Once that taboo was gone, the floodgates opened. The misery that followed included the deaths of millions of unborn babies from abortion. This article is appalling.

Absolutely. Before 1953 and Playboy people never had affairs outside marriage...

[Snickering Hound]

Hefner was a hedonist and a very shallow one at that in spite Playboy’s of pretentious.

Now that I can agree with. His pretentiousness (And Playboy's) was insufferable.

[deadrock]

bfl