The Playboy philosophy at 50

TownHall.com ^ | December 17, 2003 | Cal Thomas

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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...T'was JFK's reported interest in JAMES BOND that brought Playboy the Book Installments...

...that took it to the Moon...

...before Neal Armstrong ever got there.


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[RLK]

There have been a few articles on murders surrounding Hefner and some of his ex girlfriends in psychiatric care. I don't have a list handy. I remember his girlfriend Ornstein from a documentary on Hefner a few years back.

[Finalapproach29er]

Because Hefner is pro-abortion (he would have to be, given the consequences of what he promotes).............

-Playboy funded Roe vs. Wade (no kidding)

[freebilly]

Basketball, football, skateboard helmet, new bat, a ton of books--

He'll do alright this Christmas. The six year old gets a new bike and has been asking for a Bibleman action hero since July. His favorite activity is going to church (they've got great snacks after the service).

[freebilly]

Somebody stop me! I guess I will.

LOL!

[cyborg]

You're a good dad!

[breakem]

As I recall several Bond books debuted in Playboy. Fleming was also a Book of the Month Club choice several years. I read my first Bond book in the early 60s in high school. A friend's mother was a BOMC member and he gave them to me when she was finished.

I actually bought Playboy to read the Bond books. Believe it or not.

[T Lady]

Really? Where did you find this information? I'd sure like to check it out.

-Regards, T.

[freebilly]

You're a good dad!

Thank you, I'm an okay dad who just tells his kids who their real Dad is....

[Finalapproach29er]

Hefner admitted it on some TV show in the last ten days. Can't remember which show except that he was among (liberal) friends.

[Lady Eileen]

Remember modesty? Gone with the cultural winds. Writing in the Washington Post last week, Tina Brown said that Paris Hilton's pornographic antics and fame show we live in an age "beyond embarrassment."

Here's a link to a short but excellent book on the topic of modesty from a Christian perspective.

[freebilly]

Thank you. I'll pass this on to my wife. She bought a book recently for my daughter called Secret Keepers (my daughter's 2-1/2, but my wife bought it with an eye to the future)....

[T Lady]

Thanks for the link. It looks like some valuable reading.

-Regards, T.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Can anyone name any specific examples? I've never heard anything about the lives of Playmates being ruined because of appearing in Playboy.

It sure didn't do Dorothy Stratton any good.

[ConservativeMan55]

Hear me Roar!

[Richard Kimball]

There have been several that I've heard of that have had some rough times, although I don't know how much Playboy had to do with it.

Star Stowe (1977 Playmate) was passed around by many rock musicians, and finally ended up being a street whore. She was murdered. Willey Rey (1971), who was on the cover of the Playboy stock certificates, died of a drug overdose in her parents bathroom two years later. Her parents blamed the crowd she ran with, most of whom were from Playboy. Dorothy Stratten was murdered by her husband. Her husband was furious because Hefner had pretty much taken her away from him, introduced her to Peter Bogdonavich, and they were a hot item. Her husband was a small-time pimp. Elissa Bridges (1994) died of a drug overdose last year. Of course, there have been several busted for prostitution.

Hefner, from everything I've read about him is a pretty lame piece of work. He had rules, for example, that the Playboy bunnies couldn't be picked up by their husbands or boyfriends at the club, so they had to walk several blocks by themselves at night in downtown Chicago to get a ride. Male employees were not allowed to date playmates or bunnies. They also were not allowed to talk to Hefner, and if Hefner thought they were too good looking, he'd have them fired. There were rumors that he boinked one of his daughter's friends he met at her 16th birthday party (yes, a classmate of hers), and playmates were invited to mansion parties, but couldn't bring their husbands. They were encouraged to bring female friends, but if the friends weren't attractive enough, they'd be advised not to bring them back. Most of this is in a book titled "Bunny", and although Hefner threatened to sue over it's publication, there was enough documentation that they couldn't prove anything false.

I was disappointed at how sleazy Playboy was behind the scenes, but when I was a kid, I was naive enough to believe the stuff written in there.

[RLK]

Hefner and his philosophy are a lot like Bill Clinton and they appeal to the same mentality. However, like Clinton, they leave a trail of destruction and emptyness behind the.

[T Lady]

Oh, yeah. I remember E! doing a True Hollywood Story on Stratton and her possessive boyfriend, who got her into the Porn Industry in the first place. Creep.

-Regards, T.

[isom35]

a playboy thread and no pics? sigh..........

[T Lady]

Not on this thread (at least from me anyway), you'll have to look elsewhere. Besides, as I pointed out earlier, I'm technically challenged in the area of posting pictures and putting words into italics. If you- or anyone else on this thread- is good at doing these things, please send me a private message with directions. Thanks.

-Regards, T.