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 ...
Wow, I didn’t realize Ross had it in him.
At his core, Hefner was a pimp.
Hef.....You magnificent bastard!
Yep! Yep! You Got It!
Being a pimp requires work. he’s lower than a pimp.
Finally a piece that tells the truth about this...um.. “gentleman”.
... well, he made a TON of money, and got more than a TON of fame ... isn’t that what the American Dream is supposed to be about?
Err.. wait a minute ... something about gaining the world while forfeiting your own soul comes to mind ...
Stupid women who fell into this trap of thinking they were made to please this disgusting old coot.
I like men, decent ones and he wasn’t that.
He figured out that men like to look at beautiful nude women. Not rocket science.
Hef was a creepy guy who had sex with so many women it must have numbed him, which could explain why he experimented with a man.
Ah, an admirer?!
Like many others, Hefner sought satisfaction in extreme promiscuity and evidently failed.
Many others of us identify with Archimedes' "Eureka!" exclamation after meeting & marrying the one love of our lives.
"Eurika, I've found (her)!"
Bingo my friend....He profited on plain human behavior...just like any successful business person or religious leader. Demand and supply...American as Apple Pie.
Interesting pic. Ignore the nice clothes and ask yourself if that’s a happy man.
I read somewhere that he got so used to women he had to watch gay porn to become aroused in his later years.
He thought it was OK to have his friends rape unconscious women and underage girls in his home. Who cares whether he read to the blind and donated to cancer the other days?
Maybe if we hate on Hef for a while,
the NFL haters will have time to cool down.
Nah. Who am I kidding? Let’s watch 1984, again.
He thought it was OK to have his friends rape unconscious women and underage girls in his home. Who cares whether he read to the blind and donated to cancer the other days?
Apparently some on this thread think he made a contribute...seem to admire the pimp...
Interesting bio mini-series.
https://solarmoviez.to/movie/american-playboy-the-hugh-hefner-story-season-1-20203.html
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