Posted on 11/25/2005 10:49:47 AM PST by wagglebee
The scholar who exposed fraud and exploitation in the work of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is blowing the whistle on the E! cable channel's new "reality" show about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his three live-in girlfriends.
Judith Reisman, author of "Kinsey: Crime and Consequences" and a soon-to-be-released new title, "Kinsey's Attic: How One Man's Pathology Changed the World," says "Girls Next Door" is Hollywood's latest and boldest attempt to normalize pornography in our culture.
The author, who served as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department on obscenity issues, is angry the network is investing so much time in glamorizing a man she refers to as "a 79-year-old pornographer." The show is advertised as a reality show filmed exclusively from the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.
Reisman charges Hefner "actually drew the first 'sibling' incest cartoon for Playboy in 1954." She adds he “personally selected the thousands of child sex abuse jokes and cartoons that were a Playboy staple."
In one "Girls Next Door" episode, the three girls are shown getting ready for a nude lay-out in the famous magazine, all under the watchful eye of the magazine's patriarch. Much of the reality show centers around the famous Playboy Mansion and the "everyday lives" of these girls.
"The fact (that the network) states on its website it is owned 49.9 percent by Disney says it all," Reisman told WND. "Disney now pimps the antique, surgically enhanced Hugh Hefner playboy. Hefner's 'innocent' pornography will seduce dad. Seduce dad and you will get his kids. Seduce kids and you control; you own an entire impotent male population of users and female wannabees – forever."
Reisman sees the E! TV program, which airs Sunday nights, as another step in mainstreaming Playboy's endorsement of multi-partner sexual relationships. Hefner's live-in girls illustrate that, she says.
"Many male consumers are easily trained to believe they are being cheated if they have a love life with one woman," says Reisman. "Sex merchants intend to displace woman-wife and love. Sex merchants intend to become the consumer's substitute lover!"
Reisman is not alone in her concern about "Girls Next Door." Syndicated radio talk-show host, Paul McGuire, heard in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver and St. Louis, agrees with Reisman.
"You can package Hugh Hefner and the 'Girls Next Door' any way you want, but ultimately the show is about normalizing pornography," he says. "Hefner is a pornographer and has made his fortune exploiting women. I know women who were playmates in Hefner's Playboy-porno empire. Their lives were ruined at a young age and they continue to suffer many years later. Many of them are terrified of going public and telling what really happened to them. … This is the dark side of the Hefner and his porno empire that E! TV and Playboy don't want you to see."
And it is ruining society as a whole.
Moral absolutes ping.
""Sex merchants intend to displace woman-wife and love. "
Actually that woman-wife love is a fantasy staple as long as the husband can watch....
Seriously, the author sounds like he is just looking for something to get upset about. Playboy has been around for a long time - it's tame compared to other porn and it's natural that when Playboy does a reality show that E! would cover it.
Besides there has been Playboy TV since at least the early 80's.
Ah yes, the "exploiting women" angle. As if women werre incapable of making a decision of their own free will.
Hefner always seemed asexual to me. I watched part of a special on him the other day and he's one strange fellow.
Ditto. Supposedly, the current girlfriends that live in the mansion take turns with him.
sounds more like an advertisement than an alert :(
At once a month for this old codger their turn only comes around every 3 months, I am sure they have some young studs who fill their time and their bodies on a more regular basis.
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Contributor |
Occupation |
Date |
Amount |
Recipient |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
4/17/1998 |
$20,000 |
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
7/31/1998 |
$5,000 |
Leadership 98 |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY |
8/31/1998 |
$5,000 |
Democratic National Committee |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENT INC |
1/27/2000 |
$5,000 |
DNC Services Corp |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
8/8/2000 |
$5,000 |
Hispanic Unity USA |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
BUSINESSPERSON |
7/3/1998 |
$1,000 |
Gordon, Barry |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
ENTREPRENEUR |
7/23/1998 |
$1,000 |
Sanchez, Loretta |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
8/12/1999 |
$1,000 |
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
9/20/1999 |
$1,000 |
Sanchez, Loretta |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE |
11/2/2000 |
$1,000 |
LA PAC |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE/PUBLISHER IN CHIEF |
3/17/1999 |
$1,000 |
Gore, Al |
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Contributor |
Occupation |
Date |
Amount |
Recipient |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
5/22/1989 |
$1,000 |
Levine, Mel |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC |
5/21/1991 |
$1,000 |
Levine, Mel |
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HEFNER, HUGH M |
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE |
5/21/1992 |
$1,000 |
Clinton, Bill |
LOL!! Like Playboy is new. Well, the magazine and cable network hasn't accomplished that in the last 60 years but you know what will? A reality show on E! That'll git r done!
I have to wonder if the donations to BJ Klintoon were actually monetary or if it was for services provided.
"TV porn alert" - Thanks for the heads-up, now I'll have to watch. Nothing wrong with some more eye candy on E!
Since the high horse crowd is consistently dishonest (more so than pornographers) I wonder how reliable this statement is.
Wishful thinking?
What's Hugh gonna do? Issue a hit on them?
Personally, I, if any such persons exist, would be eager to hear their stories as would many others who don't make a habit of believing everything they see in print.
ROFLMBO!
"Somehow the thought of the wrinkled up old Hugh mounting a foolish young woman is not pornographic to me, rather the opposite."
A wrinkled old man "mounting" a foolish beautiful girl EXCITES YOU?
YUCK!
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