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Posted on 04/11/2006 7:39:19 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
The founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, is worried about his legacy. In preparation for his eightieth birthday, which he celebrated yesterday, he’s been busily filling leather-bound scrapbooks—1,500 of them—about his life and work. He’s arranged to be entombed next to Marilyn Monroe, the actress who posed nude in the first edition of Playboy in 1953.
According to a Wall Street Journal article by Matthew Scully, Hefner wants to be remembered as a philanthropist, social philosopher, cultural revolutionary. In fact, Hefner wants to be remembered as anything but what he was: a smut peddler, and the exploiter of women.
As Scully puts it with biting sarcasm, “There was a dark and joyless time in America when one could actually go about daily life without ever encountering pornographic images.” And without Hefner’s pioneering vision, “American males could not avail themselves of hundreds of millions of obscene films every year—as they do now.”
The fact is Hugh Hefner did more than anyone else to turn America into a great pornographic wasteland. Kids can now download porn on cell phones and iPods. While riding in their cars, children are treated to the sight of X-rated films on the DVD screens of cars in the next lane.
There’s no longer any doubt that the pornification of America has led to a huge increase in crime against women and children, crime committed by those who consume porn that teaches that women want to be raped and degraded.
And not just women. Hugh Hefner, sitting in his mansion in his bathrobe, thinking over his life, ought to consider the effect of his life’s work on kids like Justin Berry. Berry testified before Congress last week about how he was molested by a predator he met online. Justin spent most of his teen years posing naked online for people who paid to see him perform on camera. And he is far from alone: “There are hundreds of kids in the United States who are right now wrapped up in this horror,” he told Congress.
If Hefner wants to be remembered for his good deeds, he ought to start right now funding programs to help people damaged by his twisted view of sex—programs that help men who are enslaved to sexual addiction. Instead of funding Planned Parenthood, he ought to fund crisis pregnancy centers, which help women who bought into the lie that they were “liberated” only when they became reusable sex objects. Hefner should also help women who were lured into the sex industry and exploited—including those “Playboy Bunnies” he made famous, so many of whose lives ended tragically.
And then, Hefner might fund research into cures for the dozens of sexual diseases, including AIDS, that affect millions who believed his warped worldview—that sexual repression is bad, and that sexual promiscuity is, therefore, liberation and redemption.
The picture of Hefner on his eightieth birthday sitting in his mansion in his bathrobe, in the company of “girlfriends” paid to be there, and his jars of Viagra tablets, is a pathetic, tragic one, and it exposes his true legacy. The lesson: The life lived in pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification leads to nothing less than self-destruction.
Nudity is neither bad nor shameful. It is a gift, intended to be given by one man to one woman, and vice-versa. It becomes part of the special bond they share with each other that no one else can share with them.
I like attractive women also. I like them when they're well dressed at least as much (if not more sometimes) as I like them in the trashy clothes they often wear today. For my money there's something very sexy about an elegant, modest dress that a slinky, revealing dress can not rival.
Shalom.
Are you trying to tell me that a fully clothed Jessica Alba is less inspiring than Jessica Alba in a bikini? If so I would conclude there is something wrong with you.
But, on the other hand, Jessica Alba in a bikini will cause a married man to think thoughts counter to his marriage than a fully clothed Jessica Alba will. At least for men, what crosses their vision has a great impact on their thinking.
Shalom.
That's right - Kirstie Alley.
Your tagline suggests that your worldview and reality don't match. Of course, you will believe the same thing about those like me who believe in G-d and what He says. Time will tell.
Before you enjoy your intellectual superiority, tell me about the strip clubs dogs or chimpanzees create.
Shalom.
Kimba Wood?????
Wasn't she nominated by Klinton to the Supreme COurt??
Why is the form of extremism that you are supporting better than the form of extremism you are condemning?
I will agree with you about the value of the freedom to choose evil. What I won't agree with you is the value of the choice of evil.
Evil does not make the world a better place. The abolition of man is evil. Pornography is a part of that abolition.
Shalom.
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He was smart enough to recognize that and work hard at it, resulting in success.
Bottoms up...please.
My bet is that it will be the glorification of sex for its own sake with a concomitant inability to form a true male-female bond. It will include the growth of homosexuality and polyamory and an increase in heterosexual divorce.
Oops. My bad. Already happened. Can't use that as a prediction.
I know, I know. I can't prove porn had a hand in those things. I still believe it.
Shalom.
If I gave you a bowlful of sh@# with ice cream on it, would you eat it?
We're not talking about the interviews. Hefner could have published the interviews without the nudity if he had wanted to.
He put the interviews in for the same reason the baby-killers talk about stem-cell research, to put ice cream on the sh@#.
Shalom.
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Some men don't need an excuse to whack off in public. Many works we consider masterpieces were originally considered at least titillating or shocking, if not obscene; Edouard Manet's "Olympia" was literally scandalous in 1865, and was intended to be. John Singer Sargent had to repaint a dress strap on Madame Gautrau's portrait; it had to be exhibited as "Madame X" in order not to raise a scandal about the real model. I am sure you know these paintings; they were not always seen through 21st century eyes.
Many paintings of women "en dashibille" were only exhibited in bars and men's clubs where women would not see them. I cannot swear as to what men did in front of them, but I suppose the floors were in questionable condition for numerous reasons.
I remember the early days of Playboy, when the models were somewhat orange in color, airbrushed to the point of unreality, and showed very little compared to today. What was "naughty" in the fifties and sixties is humorous today.
Hugh's series, man!
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