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 ...
Comstock is dead. But these threads
are proof that Comstockery thrives.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
Comstock and comstockery will mean nothing in the next life, which Hefner now faces.
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.
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”.
And a few like both.
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
Daily Beast looks more like a news source than a forum. DU kicked me out within hours as being too conservative. Any other suggestions?
You prove my point. Thank you Increase Mather.
Regretfully true.
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.
Self righteous to a fault. You are a profoundly ignorant person.
Uh, no. You’re just a troll.
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