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The Playboy Legacy
Opinion Journal ^ | March 31, 2006 | MATTHEW SCULLY

Posted on 03/31/2006 6:04:13 PM PST by rhema

As his 80th birthday approaches, Hugh Hefner is proud of his achievements. He shouldn't be.

Hugh Hefner turns 80 next Sunday, and The Mansion is once again the place to be. "A major pajama party" is planned, as he told Maclean's, along with other observances equal to the dignity of the occasion. But this milestone also has "Hef" in a reflective mood, wondering how he will be remembered and trying to sum up "the major message in my life."

The founder of Playboy, says a Reuters profile, has become "utterly obsessed with his own legacy" and lately has "filled some 1,500 leather-bound scrapbooks about his life and history to date." From the first issue of Playboy to appear on Chicago newsstands in 1953 right up to the latest clippings on his current reality show, "The Girls Next Door," no trace of Mr. Hefner's storied adventures will be lost to posterity.

Lest we forget that there was actually a "Playboy Philosophy" to go with the pictures, Mr. Hefner has also reissued, online, all 250,000 words of his early-1960s disquisition on the good life and the evils of sexual inhibition.

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One hesitates to speak harshly of an old man, who somewhere along the way must have done a few worthwhile things. But as to the public legacy of Hugh Hefner, he should have no illusions. All of us have our share of faults and sins to account for. But the lowest of vices and "strangest secret of hell," as G.K. Chesterton called it, is the desire to pervert others, to coax and corrupt them and drag them down with you. And any man who at the age of 80 has that to answer for is by no stretch the luckiest cat on the planet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: highclassporn; itsmoneythatmatters; nakedbabes; pajamaboy; playboy
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1 posted on 03/31/2006 6:04:13 PM PST by rhema
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To: rhema
"the major message in my life."

Guys like to look at naked women.

2 posted on 03/31/2006 6:07:41 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: rhema

Eeecchhh. I wonder who *has* to blow out his candle? :p


3 posted on 03/31/2006 6:08:14 PM PST by steveo (Father's Against Rude Television. You may already be a member.)
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To: rhema

Just stopped by for the pictures.


4 posted on 03/31/2006 6:08:57 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: rhema
There's a rumor 'Hef' is a 80 year old virgin ... any truth to it?
5 posted on 03/31/2006 6:08:59 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

Not if you count the time he was with Dennis Weaver.

"Hey, hey! Hugh, Hugh! Get offa McCloud!"


6 posted on 03/31/2006 6:10:32 PM PST by Rastus
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To: siunevada
"the evils of sexual inhibition" Not banging four or five whores at the same time who want you for your money is evil?
7 posted on 03/31/2006 6:10:38 PM PST by Disturbin
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To: rhema; PJ-Comix
Heff has alot to be proud of. Started a magazine in his tiny South Side apartment which, to this day, is the biggest selling men's magazine in the world (more than Maxim, FHM, GQ, etc.).

BTW: PJ, you may have Petra, but I will always have Roberta Vasquez.

Men have always liked looking at women in as few clothes as possible since the beginning of time. Heff was smart enough to make the photos tasteful, while including articles about stereos, cars, and music.

Believe it or not ladies, the articles ARE VERY GOOD!

8 posted on 03/31/2006 6:11:15 PM PST by Clemenza (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times)
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To: rhema

Long live King Hef and his great magazine. I myself just read the articles.


9 posted on 03/31/2006 6:11:57 PM PST by hodaka
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To: BluH2o


LOL...Ask his daughter.


10 posted on 03/31/2006 6:12:04 PM PST by jazusamo (Excuse me Helen, I'm answering your first accusation. - President Bush)
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To: rhema

I raise a glass of prune juice to Hef. I'm sending him a gift of a years supply of viagra and a portfolio of naked Osama Bin Laden pics. Happy birthday to Hugh!


11 posted on 03/31/2006 6:12:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY ((((Deport ALL illegal invaders))))
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To: jazusamo
LOL...Ask his daughter.

Virgin birth?

12 posted on 03/31/2006 6:13:47 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: neodad
Every man wants to be Hef.
13 posted on 03/31/2006 6:13:52 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe (http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: hodaka

Your nose is growing. :)


15 posted on 03/31/2006 6:14:38 PM PST by sarasota
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To: All

Hefner will be remembered as nothing more than a high-class pimp.


16 posted on 03/31/2006 6:16:26 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Hef in Bimboland.


17 posted on 03/31/2006 6:16:36 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: rhema
Why shouldn't he be proud of his achievements? I can't believe that so many people can be offended by a picture of a naked person. Alright I'll take that back a naked picture of Rosie O'Donnell could be pretty nasty.
18 posted on 03/31/2006 6:17:03 PM PST by hodaka
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To: jazusamo

Yes his daughter turned the "empire" into a feminist vision of low class stupidity. One major yawn.


19 posted on 03/31/2006 6:17:22 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: rhema

I thought the message was "a warm is sperm is a happy sperm"


20 posted on 03/31/2006 6:17:32 PM PST by woofie
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