Hugh Hefner’s Legacy: The Celebrity Pornographer Turns 80

Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | 4/10/2006 | Charles Colson

[ArGee]

Your attempt at moral equivalence of the two is as lame as any liberal attempt at moral equivalence.

I wasn't speaking about moral equivalence of religiouis institutions. Christianity allows the very freedom that you enjoy. I was reacting to your suggestion that the alternative to nudity is burkas. Perhaps you were less clear than you intended to be?

Shalom.

[Calpernia]

Sure it does. Sure it does.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

So now thinking porn is harmful and dangerous makes one an elitist? Listen, pal, I've been in the dregs where you are when I was a younger man. I know the harm it can do--I saw it ruin several of my friends. Only an idiot witnesses such things and says, "me too, please."

You and your friends were so weak you were ruined by porn? How pathetic than an inanimate object held such sway over you . . .

[Antoninus]

You and your friends were so weak you were ruined by porn? How pathetic than an inanimate object held such sway over you . . .

Did I say I was ruined? Try paying attention. I got away from it.

It's obviously ruined you already. You just don't realize it yet.

[thebaron512]

It all depends on how you handle the cards you are dealt with.

[ZULU]

Why the sarcasm?

[Revolting cat!]

Wasn't Hugh Hefner the original pajamahadeen, as a matter of fact?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

It's obviously ruined you already. You just don't realize it yet.

Dear God, please save us from those who mean to save us from ourselves.

[linda_22003]

Hard to resist, I'm afraid; your post was so vague. You knew some "feminazis" were bunnies, but you couldn't name any, and maybe one was in some movie about bunnies, but none came to mind....

People are sometimes sure of what they know until they start talking about it. Then it's apparent they don't.

[ZULU]

Sorry.

It just seems to me that there is a connection between society - or at least a significant part of the young male portion of it - viewing women purely as sex objects and sex as a recreational rather than a sacrimental and procreative intimate act between two people who really love each other - and the simultaneous or slightly later appearance of man-hating feminazis as a connection.

But I guess there are people on this post who view that degenerate old reprobate as some kind of social icon.

Sorry to offend you.

[drjimmy]

Sorry to offend you.

I wasn't offended. I learned a few things myself while doing the research to debunk your post. Whoda thunk that Bon Jovi's mom was a Playboy bunny?!?!

[go-dubya-04]

He changed America for the better?! You're kidding, right? I'll say what I want about him and it ain't that he's an American icon. He's considered an icon because of the sick, twisted media that adores him.
How did he -personnaly- change America for the better? I gotta hear this. It ought to be good.

[go-dubya-04]

Sorry, but that makes your life as pathetic as Hefner's. Is having breast-implanted nitwits pretending to fawn over you because of your money your idea of happiness? No, thanks. I only hope that I am lucky enough to have my lovely wife by my side when I'm 80. If you don't understand that, then I feel sorry for you and would wholeheartedly recommend that you should focus on finding true love. Only then will you understand the joy of companionship that is so much deeper than what Hefner has ever experienced in his life.

[Antoninus]

Dear God, please save us from those who mean to save us from ourselves.

Take care that He doesn't answer your prayer in exactly the spirit you intended it.

Have a blessed and holy Easter.

[conserv13]

Like I said elsewhere in the thread - the more tasteful photos of nude women, the better! Also while it is a cliche, the magazine is more than just pics, there are articles too. Most are liberal garbage, but many of the interviews of newsmakers of the last 4 decades are noteworthy.

[go-dubya-04]

But your post said that he was an icon who changed America for the better. How was that accomplished with interviews and "tasteful" pictures of airbrushed, naked women.

[finnigan2]

"What strikes me about this situation is how many of these women think Playboy will be their big break."

- For years I've considered Heffner's unofficial title to be, "Procurer to the Stars".
With his west coast mansion being, in his words; "Party Central", his role is to stock it with pretty young, fresh and impressionable girls to act as eye candy for his long list of Hollywood lechers who come to his regular "parties" to look over the latest additions and cull the crop for mistresses or one night stands. As host, Heff exercises his prerogative as having the right of first refusal for the crop being presented for his guests consideration.
If he was paid in cash for his services, he could more accurately described as a pimp, but since he takes his fee in the form of favors returned, everyone pretends that he's just a good time Charlie who enjoys company.

[conserv13]

Sorry, it just seems obvious to me that a world with tasteful photos of naked women is better than a world without them.

[mass55th]

"The Celebrity Pornographer Turns 80"

So is Queen Elizabeth II, but I'm not going to her birthday party either.