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Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
NY Times ^ | 30 Sep 2017 | Ross Douthat

Posted on 09/30/2017 9:11:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain’s hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies.

Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself.

The arc of his life vindicated his moral critics, conservative and feminist: What began with talk of jazz and Picasso and other signifiers of good taste ended in a sleazy decrepitude that would have been pitiable if it wasn’t still so exploitative.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: Jimmy Valentine

Comstock is dead. But these threads
are proof that Comstockery thrives.


101 posted on 10/01/2017 5:08:35 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Do you think these Hef admirers are that way because, like him, they are still emotionally pubescent boys unable to grasp the reality required of mature adults in a civilized, respectful and productive society?


102 posted on 10/01/2017 5:25:00 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Freedom56v2

A problem with people?

I find freepers who say the most vile things against fellow freepers to be human beings wanting of basic quality

A problem with them?

Hardly

Pity perhaps

I don’t think he destroyed western civilization or morality in general

I think he was a liberal libertarian who loved sex with women

I was more like him in my youth

A youth I grew up in real time in his ascendancy

After age 23 I only shared love of girls with him

He died sadly unable to hold onto that which drove him

Age is wicked even WITH sildenafil


103 posted on 10/01/2017 5:49:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: wardaddy

OH, good that you don’t have a problem with Freepers who don’t admire Hugh Hefner....when you said “Scold Republic” I thought you did...

Not sure what is vile in disagreeing with Hef having hero status...

Heard someone on Fox saying Hef was responsible for the sexual revolution...I tend to agree, and I think it has hurt our country...

I saw Playboys from Hef’s early days with “naughty” pics and saw some of the later web stuff which was bordering on porno...He “evolved” or should I say “devolved.” Was Larry Flynn a good guy too?

Sorry, I don’t think of Hef as some sort of suave hero — a “liberal libertarian who loved sex with great women...” IMHO He helped break through traditional values and taboos...he legitimized out of marriage sex (not that it did not exist, but he pushed it) and that did not help our families or our country, he was a degenerate, and he devolved into the epitome of a “dirty old man”— a pitiful old man in a dirty mansion who probs is where he belongs, and it isn’t a Playboy mansion in the sky...

If you consider me a scolder saying “the most vile things against fellow Freepers...” because I vehemently disagree with the “She’s ‘Not guilty,’ gotta post hot babe/bod pics any chance I can” faction of FR, then put me in the scold republic.


104 posted on 10/01/2017 6:53:05 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: boatbums

Do you think these Hef admirers are that way because, like him, they are still emotionally pubescent boys unable to grasp the reality required of mature adults in a civilized, respectful and productive society?


Sadly, yes...and that is a very succinct analysis—spot on.

They are likely the same bunch who post the “Not Guilty” posts when women teachers prey on boys in their classrooms, and post hot babe/bod pics on threads any chance they get.


105 posted on 10/01/2017 6:56:24 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: varyouga
Yea, submit to this religion or you’ll be burned alive for eternity. What a way to improve the human condition and win over hearts and minds...

You misunderstood, perhaps deliberately. Eternal damnation is the bad news. You skipped over the good news, but it seems you don't want to hear it.

Hefner and those who followed him have turned a lot of Americans away from Christianity, to follow their path of "sexual liberation", which is empty and void of real meaning. I too heard this siren song when I was young. But I was saved from it. I hope you are, too, before it is too late.

106 posted on 10/01/2017 8:56:29 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of the MAGA agenda. But now the Swamp is back in control.)
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To: sparklite2

Comstock and comstockery will mean nothing in the next life, which Hefner now faces.


107 posted on 10/01/2017 8:57:27 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of the MAGA agenda. But now the Swamp is back in control.)
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To: sparklite2
Scold Republic. I love it. “Leavingt no pearl unclutched.”

No pearls here; I'll say it manfully: pornography is evil, men like Hugh Hefner are evil, and unless they change their ways, those who participate with him in such a flood of dissipation will spent eternity separated from God.

And secondly, if you call this "Scold Republic", you are in conflict with the owner of this site, who proclaims it "Pro-God" and "Pro-Life".

Perhaps you'd feel more at home on the Daily Beast, Satan's own website, or Democrat Underground, home of daily filth.

108 posted on 10/01/2017 9:05:03 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of the MAGA agenda. But now the Swamp is back in control.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Thank you for your post...and I especially like this—

And secondly, if you call this “Scold Republic”, you are in conflict with the owner of this site, who proclaims it “Pro-God” and “Pro-Life”.


109 posted on 10/01/2017 10:10:50 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: Spok

And a few like both.


110 posted on 10/01/2017 10:16:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Freedom56v2; All

For all the Hefner defenders/admirers:

A thread with a different side of the suave debonair playboy...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3591145/posts?q=1&;page=1

Hefner’s former valet reflects on ‘Pig Nights’ with hookers and Hef


111 posted on 10/02/2017 8:27:53 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: backwoods-engineer

Daily Beast looks more like a news source than a forum. DU kicked me out within hours as being too conservative. Any other suggestions?


112 posted on 10/02/2017 9:16:13 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: SunkenCiv

You prove my point. Thank you Increase Mather.


113 posted on 10/04/2017 4:44:02 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: sparklite2

Regretfully true.


114 posted on 10/04/2017 4:45:38 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

The fact that you equate the unjustified deaths of innocents with criticism of Hugh Hefner just makes you beneath contempt. If that was your point, consider it proved.


115 posted on 10/04/2017 7:28:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Self righteous to a fault. You are a profoundly ignorant person.


116 posted on 10/06/2017 9:05:13 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Uh, no. You’re just a troll.


117 posted on 10/08/2017 6:31:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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