Everything is Hefner's fault...
Posted on 09/30/2017 8:01:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
No matter what ya think about this guy, I’d bet he died with a smile on his face.
Everything is Hefner's fault...
Live in a large apt complex - a couple of us old guys (60-88) sit at the pool and observe and it is confirmed by the fellas - there is no more romance, you don’t ask for her number, ask her out for cocktails or dinner, you hook up right then and there, you go back to the apt, poke, and go back to the pool 30 - 45 minutes later and she giggles with her girlfriends, and he sends out a text with 10-20 seconds he got on his I-phone.
I was a kid of the 70s and 80s had plenty of fun but nothing like this.
Fixed it...
Without the so-called "double standard", a civilization with a future is impossible.
Treating unlikes as if they were the same is no standard at all.
he turned control over to his daughter who made it a feminist company. the clubs died, profits crashed, they missed the internet.
so much for girl next door helpmate.
He’s sort of a “Godfather”, if you will, of the sexual revolution.
That’s a big legacy of his.
is it a good legacy, good for society, a positive legacy?
Was it good that, at its peak, about 7 million magazines a month were sold, in those pre-internet days? Was it good that he encouraged young men to look at women as disposable objects of desire? Was it good that he encouraged young men to look at the opposite sex as playmates and play things?
How many men tried to emulate him? Of course few could afford a mansion full of live in girlfriends, but how many took the playboy philosophy to heart, at a great cost to the women in their lives?
What positive legacy, if any, did he leave behind?
Back when I was young, most of the males wanted loose women, but nobody would marry a slut.
I never noticed how much Hef looks like Anthony Weiner....
“Back when I was young, most of the males wanted loose women, but nobody would marry a slut.”
They still won’t, unless the slut has money.
Anyway, I never really got into the pornography. I found a lot of it disgusting. Some of my friends however seemed to get really obsessed over it. Even as a boy, I sensed that it was not a healthy thing.
Yep. Hefner commoditized sex.
Thank you for posting this. It looks like it could be useful in the research for my current book.
Just kindled it.
Feminism and the libertine Left have encouraged women (and men) to be sluts. I pity young people who have morals and self-respect and are looking for a mate. Must be nice knowing you are 43rd person your mate has slept with.
I’m not reading the eulogies of Hefner. Are they really crediting him with ANYTHING good?
I’d been invited to his mansion but never wanted to go for one second. It doesn’t sound like a fun place for women. Even women who love men. I spent about 3 minutes once in one of the clubs known to be a meatmarket and hated that hungry eyed look from a thousand eyes on me. How is that fun? It’s not.
And thinking about how he condoned and allowed Cosby to drug and rape women in his house, HOW MANY OTHER GUYS were helped to abuse women and underage girls? What good did he bring to this world that counteracted that?
No hookers or brothels before 1953 and Playboy...
Only two? How Victorian of him. Last count there are at least 58 sexes on Facebook alone.
And the paradox is a woman who truly loves sex makes a much bette wife
I think you are lo-balling that 43 number it’s probably double that.
Brothels were more open even in my 60s youth
I never thought playboy was porn
People who say that have a low threshold for what is porn
Hustler became porn as did Penthouse at the end
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