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How Hugh Hefner Changed The World
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10/27/09
[www.amazon.com] #hughhefner
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Now!?!? Now it smells bad?!?! Are you kidding me? I imagine that place in the 70's was a piquant bouquet of CFC's, acetone, and moustache wax. #hughhefner
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I don't mind Playboy, but what creeps me out is the number of people who claim it isn't porn because the images aren't explicit enough. It isn't full of Renaissance painting style nudity, it is meant to be arousing. If someone needs more than that to get their motor running, I think that is a bit of personal problem. #hughhefner
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But I am someone who despises preemptive strikes. #hughhefner
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I saw a couple comments about Hef's taste in women being "tasteless" and "boring" and suppose I threw this out there in hopes of keeping the comments on the topic at hand, rather than on the women of the mag. #hughhefner
10/27/09
Thats just go to show you out of touch playboy is now. #hughhefner
10/27/09
The last Playboy I picked up had an article by David Kaczynski about his relationship with his brother, and interviews with Seth MacFarlane and Alec Baldwin--all of which I found thoroughly entertaining and way more engaging than any of the Hottest Bachelor bullshit and self-hate of the ladymags we know so well.
Shel Silverstein was one of Playboy's earliest contributors. Christie Hefner, a female CEO (!) is calling the shots at Playboy Enterprises. Call me a bad feminist, but this isn't exactly an anti-woman legacy I feel like rallying against.
His personal life (taste in barely legal girlfriends specifically) is one thing. But Playboy itself, and how it has transformed the sexual landscape in popular culture? Something else entirely.
Can't we focus our vitriol energies on something that truly sucks?
10/27/09
Basically, it's a non issue for me.
10/27/09
I don't think anyone is really focusing on the vitriol on Playboy, but I don't think you can skip over the naked lady photos and go straight to the articles when discussing Playboy. Playboy has played a role in the rise in breast implants and expectations about pubic hair grooming. Pretending it is the Economist ignores the role it has played in male sexual expectations. #hughhefner
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Playboy was just one of many cultural artifacts of the sexual revolution. And fake tits in 2009 doesn't change that. #hughhefner
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You knew what Playboy was when you were in 3rd or 4th grade, right? Before you had ever picked up a men's OR woman's magazine, maybe before you even really knew what sex was. At least I did. And that's with the protective veil of Catholic schooling no less. When I talk about cultural significance, I mean the power to put a men's nudie mag on the same pop-cultural wavelength as Superman and The Muppets. That has influenced the world as we know it. I'm not saying it's done anything for MY sex life, or that someone needs to give him some kind of award, but it has influenced the culture. And that garners a couple of commemorative articles. #hughhefner
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"...Playgirl of the Month. She is never sophisticated, a girl you can really have. She is young, healthy, simple girl- the girl next door... we are not interested in the mysterious, difficult woman, the femme fatale, who wears elegant underwear, with lace, and she is sad, and somehow mentally filthy. The Playboy girl has no lace, no underwear, she is naked, well-washed with soap and water, and she is happy."
Sounds like Hef is really into women's rights and equality, right? #hughhefner
10/27/09
And boring. He forgot boring. #hughhefner
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Brah? #hughhefner
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