Everything is Hefner's fault...
No matter what ya think about this guy, I’d bet he died with a smile on his face.
Everything is Hefner's fault...
Live in a large apt complex - a couple of us old guys (60-88) sit at the pool and observe and it is confirmed by the fellas - there is no more romance, you don’t ask for her number, ask her out for cocktails or dinner, you hook up right then and there, you go back to the apt, poke, and go back to the pool 30 - 45 minutes later and she giggles with her girlfriends, and he sends out a text with 10-20 seconds he got on his I-phone.
I was a kid of the 70s and 80s had plenty of fun but nothing like this.
Fixed it...
Without the so-called "double standard", a civilization with a future is impossible.
Treating unlikes as if they were the same is no standard at all.
He’s sort of a “Godfather”, if you will, of the sexual revolution.
That’s a big legacy of his.
is it a good legacy, good for society, a positive legacy?
Was it good that, at its peak, about 7 million magazines a month were sold, in those pre-internet days? Was it good that he encouraged young men to look at women as disposable objects of desire? Was it good that he encouraged young men to look at the opposite sex as playmates and play things?
How many men tried to emulate him? Of course few could afford a mansion full of live in girlfriends, but how many took the playboy philosophy to heart, at a great cost to the women in their lives?
What positive legacy, if any, did he leave behind?
Back when I was young, most of the males wanted loose women, but nobody would marry a slut.
I never noticed how much Hef looks like Anthony Weiner....
Yep. Hefner commoditized sex.
Thank you for posting this. It looks like it could be useful in the research for my current book.
Just kindled it.
Only two? How Victorian of him. Last count there are at least 58 sexes on Facebook alone.
Perpetual adolescence isn’t healthy for an individual or society.
110M of the the 360M US citizens have a STD.
Center for Disease Control (CDC) fact. (or about 1 in 3 chance).
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/10/hidden-epidemic-110m-std-infections-in-us.html
Your state may have even more per average especially if you live in a liberal enclave (or DEM stronghold).
See here https://www.livescience.com/48100-sexually-transmitted-infections-50-states-map.html
Hefner was the main bankroller of NORML, the pothead organization.