Posted on 09/29/2017 10:19:27 AM PDT by drewh
Good points.
He became rich showing naked women.Never liked the man.Who wears a nightgown all the time?
My Daughter’s girlfriend was a centerfold.Bought the issue because it had an article about Anna Nicole Smith and this was right after she died.My daughter says her girlfriend is the centerfold in that issue. She is telling me the breast size is much smaller and stuff.It was funny.Her friend was dating a football player for the Eagles of course. Girl talk.
Not to God, though.
And there were very many cracks in Cruz’s “conservative” façade, as things stood.
People were being murdered in their homes centuries before Charles Manson, so I don't understand why everyone is so critical of him.
“Absolutely. Before 1953 and Playboy people never had affairs outside marriage...”
Well, I certainly never did any such thing before 1953! Of course, that may be because I was not born until 1944.
Read my text again. He started this process. In the 50s, this was considered extreme.
Well, some claim to actually believe that, if not for the American “civil” war, there would still be black slaves picking cotton in South Carolina. I suppose they also believe that, if not for the Wright brothers, we would still have no airplanes.
He made millions off of paying women a few thousand. He used them. Of the 50 years of his smut, only a handful went on to make it big.
You think the mainstreaming of porn was inevitable? Why?
As for Thomas Edison, it is not so much the light bulb that caused major problems for society, but the film camera and projector did.
Prior to Edison, Actors were mostly low class scum only fit to associate with bums, whores, gamblers and thieves. Society held them in little regard, and considered them immoral as a class.
So long as they could only act for audiences in the hundreds or a few thousands, they were no great threat to societies balance, but once they could be recorded and thereby their audiences expanded to the millions and hundreds of millions, they captured an influence on the public they have maintained ever since. Even worse, they were now made wealthy by their "acting" and so they had real world financial power with which to push their own foolish ideas and immorality on the rest of us.
Edison kicked off the whole thing, but to be fair, someone else would have probably done it anyway if he had not.
Film and the empowerment of actors was inevitable, but it is not so clear that mainstreamed porn would have been. I blame the Roosevelt appointed Judges more than I do Hefner, but he was the guy that started mainstreaming smut.
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I wonder what % of subscribers read the articles.
I’m of the internet age myself, I’ve only seen screenshots of the magazine, certainly not the articles. ;d
The author of this article is a retard.
On the bright side, Hefner’s magazine also regularly published some the best writers of our generation. Norman Mailer, Ray Bradberry, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, Joseph Heller, Ian Fleming among others. It had articles on music, science, food, art, theater, social trends, politics, men’s fashion.
And yes there were photos of women in various stages of undress. But, the photos were of lovely women, coyly smiling, playful, appearing happy and well adjusted. Not at all like the pornographic, drugged out appearance of the women of Penthouse and other pretender magazines.
That’s why Hugh Hefner was considered a cultural icon. His was the first magazine of its kind to liberate men from societal expectations.
that was my point, I do not think what PLAYBOY showed was porn. Good dope, yep, Northern California.
Weren’t Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal repugnant people in real life, though (the former being a staunch communist and the latter being a radical homosexual agenda person, whose works generally involve a gay man raping someone)? Also Jack Kerouac, who was an alcoholic who doesn’t even think highly of his own works, including “I was young then” especially? I guess Ray Bradberry and Ian Flemming were somewhat alright. Don’t know about Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, as I’m unfamiliar with those two either in terms of overall character or in their works.
So far as him being the first magazine being the first of its kind to liberate men from societal expectations, technically, Sade also “liberated” men from similar societal expectations, yet last I checked, that was actually a very bad thing.
Lol
Hefner has sure brought out the long knives here
He’s a favorite of cat ladies and virgin men alike
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Hefner to Free Republic> George W Bush to libtards
The blame for it all
The Pill or Hefner
Which was the bigger Satan per freepers upset over ol Heffie
My comment: “On the bright side, Hefner’s magazine regularly published some the best writers of our generation.”
Interesting you focus on the writers’ life and character and not their technical skills, imagination or influence on book sales.
When a woodworker produces a fine cabinet, we don’t ask the nature of his character, we admire his skill and possibly we bring the piece into our home to appreciate its beauty.
Those authors I mentioned wrote the books we read in college, wrote the stories that became the films that were part of our generation’s coming of age. Their talent and writing styles impacted following generations of writers.
It was in the pages of Playboy that I read a small sampling of these authors which lead me to explore their work further. Playboy magazine did that.
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