I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.”
Carl Jung
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:I hope this does not become a race thread.....
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:23 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:I hope this does not become a race thread.....
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:23 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:I hope this does not become a race thread.....
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:23 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:I hope this does not become a race thread.....
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Quote: (09-28-2017 03:13 PM)kaotic Wrote:
But Kona haven't you seen the lawns at the Playboy Mansion, they're so green and neatly trimmed, all the way up to the Grotto !
Quote: (09-28-2017 03:08 PM)Kona Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:19 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
I hope the forum doesn't devolve into Hef and Anti-Hef factions.
Well if it does, I'd like to lead the anti-Hef movement.
I read "Down the Rabbit Hole" by Holly Madison, and it changed my entire perspective about Hugh Hefner.
In a nut shell, Hugh Hefner and his wacky lifestyle was all orchestrated by a team of spin doctor types to sell magazines, and in the early days, get people into playboy casinos.
The way she described it, the "girlfriends" were hired by other people. Hefner actually thought they were his girlfriends. That show they made was totally scripted, but Hefner thought it was real. She also described the gay porn masturbation orgies she participated in. That was some spooky shit.
Now, I understand that she could have written the book because she felt slighted, but I believed it.
Up until I read that, I thought the guy was an icon too. I'd seen multi episode specials about his life, and blah blah blah.
Sadly, its all fake.
Aloha!
Quote: (09-28-2017 04:49 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
From what I read about Hef, from early on he wasn't just a procurer of girls, he was the guy who organized things for his friends.
He had movie nights and game nights and gathered together people for good conversation and to enjoy the high life.
He was the guy who knew how to have a good time, was always up to something, always throwing parties and get togethers of one sort or another.
When I read this, it changed my view of him and really got me thinking about the social value of being that guy.
Quote: (09-28-2017 05:35 PM)polar Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 04:49 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
From what I read about Hef, from early on he wasn't just a procurer of girls, he was the guy who organized things for his friends.
He had movie nights and game nights and gathered together people for good conversation and to enjoy the high life.
He was the guy who knew how to have a good time, was always up to something, always throwing parties and get togethers of one sort or another.
When I read this, it changed my view of him and really got me thinking about the social value of being that guy.
Citation, please
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:02 PM)Matt Forney Wrote:
A important detail in his life is that his fiancee, the woman he most likely lost his virginity to, cheated on him while he was serving in the military during World War II. He admitted that her confession before their wedding psychologically broke him, and she let him sleep with other women when they were married in part to atone for what she did. Even after they divorced, she kept working for Playboy.
Quote: (09-28-2017 06:11 PM)Aurini Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:02 PM)Matt Forney Wrote:
A important detail in his life is that his fiancee, the woman he most likely lost his virginity to, cheated on him while he was serving in the military during World War II. He admitted that her confession before their wedding psychologically broke him, and she let him sleep with other women when they were married in part to atone for what she did. Even after they divorced, she kept working for Playboy.
This really speaks to me about how crucial forgiveness is.
She hurt him; deeply. Maybe more deeply than he could ever forgive. But instead of attempting to forgive her, and either breaking up with her or eventually marrying her, he chose to 'get back' at her.
This is the very core of "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Revenge is a destructive cycle; an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. She wounded him, so he wounded her. Now they were both missing a piece needed to make them whole. He abandoned the spiritual for the material, as did she, leading to the eventual dissolution of their marriage (despite remaining on good terms) and a degraded existence for both of them.
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:02 PM)Matt Forney Wrote:
It's worth pointing out that Hugh Hefner was so bored with women by the time the 1960's came around that he started experimenting with gay sex:
Quote: (09-28-2017 06:27 PM)Troller Wrote:
So it´s Hefner fault she cheated on him? What are you saying here?
I don´t think he got back at her. He simply was wounded and became broken. Without ever fixing himself up again. It was the whore´s fault.
Quote: (09-28-2017 01:03 AM)Conscious Pirate Wrote:
I respect him for his living of life on his own terms, & that's where it ends.
The "playboy" image/archetype has weakened men & the cheapened our sex in the eyes of the other (& our own). Just as it has given the opposite sex validation & cultural permission for their vainglorious, base drives that harm civilisation.
Quote: (09-28-2017 01:42 AM)Aurini Wrote:
The "Playboy" lifestyle is merely the homosexual urbanite lifestyle being repackaged with heterosexuality. No legacy - no love - just endless hedonism which is never as good as the first time.