Posted on 10/09/2014 9:42:04 AM PDT by Morgana
"First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow."
Same situation in this house. :)
Totally missed this one. Worth checking out? Or the sequel?
Hefner corrupted people, and induced them to corrupt each other. It’s far more devastating to the soul, and far more insidious, than the use of brute force.
The model is as old as Eden ... and as deadly today as it was then.
Hefner was following in the footsteps (does a Serpent have footsteps?) of his master: a murderer from the Beginning, a liar and the father thereof.
Wilson and his ilk were and are bad. Very bad.
Hefner and his ilk were and are worse.
IMO.
:)
A bit more information about him than I wanted to know, but makes sense.
Honestly, I don’t think it was specifically the imagery of nude women that was so corrupting. I believe it was the overall selling and promotion of a degenerate, self-absorbed lifestyle/worldview. Nekkid gals was mostly the come-on, the gateway.
That’s not the way some of the posts were written.
If it is a symptom, it has been prevalent throughout recorded history. It is like saying that breathing is a symptom of living; it is not going to go away regardless of the efforts. It might be controlled here and there but it isn’t going to disappear.
Symptom or cause, the primary focus still needs to be on wiping these fascists from all of politics at all levels.
“He was a pervert.”
That’s an understatement.
“A bit more information about him than I wanted to know, but makes sense.”
You know, some men might look at him and think “he lives the life of Riley” but I know he’s an empty, sad person.
“Honestly, I dont think it was specifically the imagery of nude women that was so corrupting. I believe it was the overall selling and promotion of a degenerate, self-absorbed lifestyle/worldview. Nekkid gals was mostly the come-on, the gateway.”
DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!!
“A man was trashed by an ex? Stop the presses!!”
Didn’t one of his exes say she caught him in bed with another guy? (And Hef owned up to it)
I had read that he was using homosexual porn to move forward, as it were.
watching male porn?
Put it another way, if a mere magazine with images of nude women could corrupt an entire population of people then just how moral was that population in the first place?
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I disagree Code Toad. People are wired for sex and sometimes the wiring wins. It is not that they are happy about what they are doing, it is that the visuals overwhelm. Moral people sometimes do immoral things. That is why our culture had such a cap on this sort of issue for so long. Our forefathers knew the weakness of the human mind and body.
Interesting perspective. It’s true that Hefner was promoting more than provocative images.
Below is a link to an interview of Hefner by William F. Buckley Jr. regarding the “Playboy Philosophy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHlZxL9sucg
“degenerate, self-absorbed lifestyle/worldview”
Odd you say that since he was selling the “gentleman’s club” scene versus just outright orgies like others were selling.
Nudie magazines and letters were already a thing of the day. There were even mail clubs for just that thing. I live in a State where western brothels flourished. Our founding fathers had a few that weren’t exactly chaste. We built this nation with sex as a mainstay, so something else has to be causing the moral decline.
The “Progressive Movement”, which had a major surge in 1913, including its own political party of which the likes of Roosevelt belonged, has caused the moral decline far more than nudie pictures.
Or was the culture already corrupt and thus readily accepted Hefner?
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