Posted on 11/27/2005 9:55:38 AM PST by Khankrumthebulgar
(AgapePress) - Entertainment Television's show Girls Next Door is just another example of Hollywood's attempt to normalize the porn industry in today’s culture, claims an internationally respected expert and justice consultant on the subject.
In an exclusive interview, Dr. Judith Reisman -- author of the soon-to-be-released book Kinsey's Attic: How One Man's Psychopathology Changed the World -- blasted the E! TV channel by saying, "the fact [that the network] states on its website that they are owned 49.9% by Disney says it all.“
Continuing, Reisman asserts that “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, a prolific writer who is best known for her expose on sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, recalls that Hefner "actually drew the first 'sibling' incest cartoon for Playboy in 1954." She adds that the Playboy founder "personally selected the thousands of child sex abuse jokes and cartoons that were a Playboy staple."
The author is disturbed that the network is investing so much time glamorizing the 79-year-old purveyor of porn. The show, advertised as a reality show filmed exclusively from the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, focuses on the mansion itself and the everyday lives of the three "twenty-something" live-in girlfriends of the aging publisher. In one episode, the three women are shown preparing for a nude layout in the famous magazine, all under the watchful eye of the magazine's patriarch. It is not uncommon for the Disney-owned network to fade the camera in scenes when nudity is revealed.
Reisman is disappointed that E! Television would feature a person such as Hefner whose exploits have had such a negative influence on modern culture. "What non-consumers do not know -- and what many Playboy consumers overlook," she says, "is that Playboy has always been much more than a girlie or men's magazine. It has long been the bully pulpit for a worldview that judges men according to their tally of sexual conquests. The worldwide prototype for Playboy's male design was publisher Hugh Hefner's own allegedly outrageous sexual lifestyle."
Reisman also sees the E! TV program as promoting Playboy's endorsement of multi-partner sexual relationships. Hefner's live-in girlfriends illustrate that, she says. According to the author, "many male consumers are easily trained to believe they are being cheated if they have a love life with one woman. Sex merchants intend to displace woman-wife and love. Sex merchants intend to become the consumer's substitute lover!"
Girls Next Door airs on Sunday nights on the cable network. James L. Lambert, a frequent contributor to AgapePress, is the author of Porn in America (Huntington House), which can be purchased through the American Family Association. He is a licensed real-estate mortgage loan sales agent and can be contacted through his website.
Works for me!
Trolling for Dollars in an "about the author" note. Why didn't I think of that?
While I can admit that many men think about what it would be like to be in Heffs shoes from time to time, Heff still looks like an old fool. A tired, wrinkly old man trying to be cool and young again. He just looks foolish.
Maybe he does, but the lifestyle does not. Glamorizing it in the mainstream media further legitimatizes an evil whose ill effects on our society (especially our children) is only too well known today.
Yep, the new addicts infecting the world
They usually show up on these threads to defend their addiction.
The Spice Must Flow
Initially they expect it is going to be someone else's girl or boy who will suffer because of their addiction.
It occurs to me that focusing on magazines like Playboy is a real mistake. It's not even pornographic, frankly. With the huge amount of real porn out there and available, it seems like a better target could be chosen by these folks.
The problem is complicated by the fact that a huge percentage of men in this country have read (or looked at) Playboy in their lives. Those men know it's not really pornography. These folks won't get the support of men who like Playboy. No way.
They should go after real porn.
Totally clueless. It has been NORMALIZED for years.
This clip from the article pretty well sums up the mental state of the author.
You got that right. My very first exposure to pornography was from the magazine stack of my local barber shop in 1953. Once My parents never had a problem getting me to go get a haircut after I discovered that stack.
Works for me. Governing America 'for the children' doesn't let anyone grow up.
Wow! That would make a great bumper sticker for libertarian losers.
That works, too. Win or lose, I usually down on the side of more rather than less liberty.
re: Playboy is not porn
Couldn't agree more!
I have seen porn, and I know porn when I see it. Nudity is not porn.
Did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the "heart and soul of conservatism"?
Must have been a while back. Most of the "libertarians" on this forum spend their energies promoting promiscuity, pornography and drugs.
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