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Hugh Hefner’s Legacy: The Celebrity Pornographer Turns 80
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^
| 4/10/2006
| Charles Colson
Posted on 04/11/2006 7:39:19 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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To: peyton randolph; namsman
"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 are some good points in the article but the above statement is way over the top. Theoretically possible but highly unlikely.There was an article about it happening to someone here some months back in a Seattle newspaper and I have witnessed it myself on one occasion. Damn near crashed trying to match the speed of the car next to me........ ;o)
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:50:56 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(5 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, guns and ammunition.)
To: poindexter
I don't even think that you can call Playboy 'pornography'. There is really nothing vulgar or over the top about it. Its pictures of nude women. *gasp*
But you are right in the 50s that was breakthrough.
To: Mr. Silverback
We were at the LONG BEACH GRAND PRIX Sunday and Hefner was there celebrating his 80th birthday. We didn't see him. We did see Paul Newman though!
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:51:13 AM PDT
by
buffyt
(America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
To: peyton randolph
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
MY EYES
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:02 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(The coward will not fight, the fool refuses to see necessity the scoundrel puts himself ahead of all)
To: Mr. Silverback
So, Hef is responsible for all the porn, then? I don't see it. There has been pornography since there has been civilization. There was porn before Hef, too, however old he is.
Further, classifying Playboy's airbrushed naked women as pornography seems to me to trivialize true pornography, which is explicitly sexual.
Colson has gone off the deep end, here, in my opinion.
Is Hugh Hefner someone to be admired? Probably not. Is he responsible for the growth of pornography in this country? Not really. So, what is responsible for pornography? Human nature, I suppose.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:08 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: buffyt
We also saw William Shatner, Patrick Dempsey, Bo Bice, Martina Navratiola, Frankie Munoz, John Elway, etc.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:14 AM PDT
by
buffyt
(America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
To: peyton randolph
There are some good points in the article but the above statement is way over the top. Theoretically possible but highly unlikely. I remember the news article when it happened, although I don't remember any of the details.
Shalom.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:21 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: The Lumster
Back in the 1970s, Bossier City, La. had the old Don Drive In, a drive in theater that had seen better days.
The screen faced I-20 and a busy street called Airline drive.
From about 1974 on, the Don showed nothing but R and hard-R flicks with mucho sex and nudity. That part of I-20 always slowed down considerably.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:52:39 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: Mr. Silverback
Sounds like Hef and bjclinton have much in common, both are searching for a respectable legacy.
To: MineralMan
You are right. There are porn post cards that were made in France back when there were first cameras. We have some of these antique photos.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:53:01 AM PDT
by
buffyt
(America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
To: mlc9852
He supported racial integration for one.
To: Skooz
"Hef's" world. A place where men never grow up, (they never even change out of their pajamas) women have big boobs and bigger ears, and life is sex, drugs and rock and roll 24-7. GROW UP already, Hef.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:53:23 AM PDT
by
veronica
("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
To: Skooz
But, America would not be awash in porn were it not for the overwhelming demand. A very great man once said something to the effect of, "Men will sin, but woe be to the one who helps them sin."
The porn "industry" needs both suppliers and users. Both are guilty.
Shalom.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:54:13 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: MadIvan
"I have a better statistic - apparently the pornographic film industry now makes more money than Hollywood.
That was simply not the case before Hefner came onto the scene. "
Or it could have been television, or the Chrysler Corp's first Hemi engine. Lots of things happened in the 1950s. Hefner was the first one to put out a magazine with photos of nude women that reached the newsstands. That was about it, though. Porn existed long, long before Playboy.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:54:53 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: conserv13
LOL - yeah, I remember learning that in American History.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:54:57 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: conserv13
But, America would not be awash in porn were it not for the overwhelming demand. I am genuinely interested. How do you think Hefner changed the world for the better?
Shalom.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:54:57 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: MineralMan
And Rock n Roll existed before the Beatles.
And the automobile existed before the Model T.
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:55:56 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: MineralMan
I'm not denying that - I do think, however, Hefner brought it out "into the open".
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:55:59 AM PDT
by
MadIvan
(Ya hya chouhada! Dune fans, visit - http://www.thesietch.com/)
To: Mr. Silverback
If the guy did not have oodles of money made from promoting porn" how many of those "girlfriends" would be hanging onto this pervert?
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:56:12 AM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
To: mlc9852
I agree...tendonitis and tennis elbow have increased by 600% since the 1960's, so how is that an improvement?
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:56:21 AM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
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