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09-28-2017, 10:23 PM
What's being talked about now is that he didn't have much left at the time of his death. The mansion hasn't been his for many years, and is in need of repair. The magazine is facing the fate of Rolling Stone. Some people put up the optics for the sake of their businesses, its basically just business. Who knows whats true and whats not.
Whatever you think, he was a brilliant businessman who pushed the boundaries of free speech, for lots of people. I think most of the stories about him being such a playboy, only served as marketing for the magazine. They were all in on that, even the models, to the point where they start believing their own bullshit.
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09-29-2017, 12:00 AM
Quote: (09-28-2017 02:02 PM)Matt Forney Wrote:
Nobody wants to aspire to anything anymore, aside from finding more exotic ways to explore each others' buttholes. And that's why Playboy is dead.
I will be checking my PMs weekly, so you can catch me there. I will not be posting.
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09-29-2017, 02:51 AM
Quote: (09-28-2017 06:11 PM)Aurini Wrote:
Revenge is a destructive cycle; an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Revenge is destructive indeed, but "an eye for an eye" does NOT necessarily leave the whole world blind because it is an appeal to
avoid escalation at all costs. If you take my eye, I am only entitled to taking
one of your eyes. I am not entitled to killing your son. If I killed your son, you may feel entitled to killing my whole family. Then, if any of my relatives survives, he may feel entitled to slaughtering your whole family in retaliation. Suddenly, our families have gone extinct because we lacked the self-control to avoid escalation.
I suppose your point was that if a girl hurts you and you end up hurting
other women to be able to live with yourself, then you're ruining the world. I cannot disagree with that.
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09-29-2017, 03:36 AM
It's surprising that Hefner is turning out to be such a divisive character for the forum. I saw that the thread had reached a fourth page and I figured it'd become a dumping ground for bunny pics.
I guess it's dredging up the divider between the save-the-west crowd and the enjoy-the-decline crowd.
I know fuck all about Hef. Whether he had game is a matter of contention but it's hard to argue that he was a bad businessman and considering all the top grade snatch his organisation put on his dick it's difficult to hang shit on him without sounding like a hater.
I love my wife and my family, but if things had gone differently and I were in his shoes at a similar age I would find it hard to take the haters seriously. How many of the save-the-west crowd have kids? How many have a wife? How many are even seriously looking? How many are committed to strict monogamy, even when their spouse it 40+ with wrinkles and stretchmarks?
And of that slim minority here on the forum, how many think that getting on the 'Hef-is-the-devil' soap-box on a PUA forum doesn't fall barely shy of pointless shit-stirring?
He was a wildly successful businessman.
His notch count was off the charts.
His bloodline carries on.
Hard to hate on Hef IMO.
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09-29-2017, 05:07 AM
The NYTimes has a video obituary with excerpts of a 2008 interview in which Hefner talks about how his fiancée's infidelity crushed him:
Interestingly, Hefner started Playboy with his Methodist mother's savings!
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09-29-2017, 05:27 AM
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09-29-2017, 06:17 AM
To the extent that Hugh Hefner encouraged women to strive to "identify" as bunnies - cute, fast, low fat, love to reproduce - that's a legacy worth admiring.
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09-29-2017, 08:17 AM
Quote: (09-29-2017 07:18 AM)Samseau Wrote:
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Quote: (09-29-2017 03:36 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
It's surprising that Hefner is turning out to be such a divisive character for the forum. I saw that the thread had reached a fourth page and I figured it'd become a dumping ground for bunny pics.
I guess it's dredging up the divider between the save-the-west crowd and the enjoy-the-decline crowd.
I know fuck all about Hef. Whether he had game is a matter of contention but it's hard to argue that he was a bad businessman and considering all the top grade snatch his organisation put on his dick it's difficult to hang shit on him without sounding like a hater.
I love my wife and my family, but if things had gone differently and I were in his shoes at a similar age I would find it hard to take the haters seriously. How many of the save-the-west crowd have kids? How many have a wife? How many are even seriously looking? How many are committed to strict monogamy, even when their spouse it 40+ with wrinkles and stretchmarks?
And of that slim minority here on the forum, how many think that getting on the 'Hef-is-the-devil' soap-box on a PUA forum doesn't fall barely shy of pointless shit-stirring?
He was a wildly successful businessman.
His notch count was off the charts.
His bloodline carries on.
Hard to hate on Hef IMO.
By the logic of the above statements, we should admire porn site operators.
Why don't you guys run us your datasheets on SeekingArrangement, or how to build a porn site? Or tell us about the best brothels with the best talent? Because I don't see a difference between any of these activities and what Hugh did.
Wildly broad comparisons like this are beneath you. Try taking a few deep breaths.
Did you ever buy a woman a drink with the intention of fucking her later?
Well you paid for sex. She's a whore and you're a John.
"Because I don't see a difference between..."
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09-29-2017, 08:22 AM
Quote: (09-29-2017 03:36 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
I saw that the thread had reached a fourth page and I figured it'd become a dumping ground for bunny pics.
There is still time!! We can rebuild it!!!
#TeamEnjoyTheDecline
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09-29-2017, 08:40 AM
The elephant in the room is
antibiotics. Without the democratization of antibiotics after WWII, the Playboy lifestyle would have been "nasty, brutish and short". Dying of neurosyphilis is not very glamorous, is it?
An excerpt from
one of Gregory Cochran's blog posts:
Quote:Gregory Cochran Wrote:
As production rose, availability increased. At first, penicillin was largely reserved for US and British military needs. Later, it became available to US and British civilians, and soon after for general usage.
But there was a time window of several months in which American-produced penicillin was available for American wounded but not for French casualties. Fortunately, it happens that penicillin is rapidly excreted in urine. It can be recovered. Between January and April 1945, Rhône-Poulenc extracted penicillin from the urine of wounded American servicemen being treated in hospitals around Paris, penicillin which was then used to treat the wounded of the French Army. They typically recovered about 100 doses from 300 liters of urine.
When American piss is the elixir of life – that is national greatness.
The end of Playboy's golden age was brought by the VCR in the 1970s and then the global AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Not even antibiotics could save one from HIV. Yet, for some 20 years, from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s, Playboy had enormous cultural influence. The Playboy bunny is more American than apple pie.
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09-29-2017, 08:41 AM
Quote: (09-29-2017 08:28 AM)Mercenary Wrote:
Quote: (09-29-2017 08:22 AM)Vill@in Wrote:
Quote: (09-29-2017 03:36 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
I saw that the thread had reached a fourth page and I figured it'd become a dumping ground for bunny pics.
There is still time!! We can rebuild it!!!
No need.
If you're keen make a thread for old school vintage (pre internet) NSFW pictures.
This discussion is about Hefner himself.
Nah I was being facetious.
Plus girls dressed up as bunnies doesn't do anything for me anymore unless they have easter eggs shoved up their asses.
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09-29-2017, 09:06 AM
Quote: (09-29-2017 08:23 AM)Samseau Wrote:
Quote: (09-29-2017 08:17 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
Quote: (09-29-2017 07:18 AM)Samseau Wrote:
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Quote: (09-29-2017 03:36 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
It's surprising that Hefner is turning out to be such a divisive character for the forum. I saw that the thread had reached a fourth page and I figured it'd become a dumping ground for bunny pics.
I guess it's dredging up the divider between the save-the-west crowd and the enjoy-the-decline crowd.
I know fuck all about Hef. Whether he had game is a matter of contention but it's hard to argue that he was a bad businessman and considering all the top grade snatch his organisation put on his dick it's difficult to hang shit on him without sounding like a hater.
I love my wife and my family, but if things had gone differently and I were in his shoes at a similar age I would find it hard to take the haters seriously. How many of the save-the-west crowd have kids? How many have a wife? How many are even seriously looking? How many are committed to strict monogamy, even when their spouse it 40+ with wrinkles and stretchmarks?
And of that slim minority here on the forum, how many think that getting on the 'Hef-is-the-devil' soap-box on a PUA forum doesn't fall barely shy of pointless shit-stirring?
He was a wildly successful businessman.
His notch count was off the charts.
His bloodline carries on.
Hard to hate on Hef IMO.
By the logic of the above statements, we should admire porn site operators.
Why don't you guys run us your datasheets on SeekingArrangement, or how to build a porn site? Or tell us about the best brothels with the best talent? Because I don't see a difference between any of these activities and what Hugh did.
Wildly broad comparisons like this are beneath you. Try taking a few deep breaths.
Did you ever buy a woman a drink with the intention of fucking her later?
Well you paid for sex. She's a whore and you're a John.
"Because I don't see a difference between..."
The difference is that no contract is signed, no agreement upon sex is made, and no future promises of payments are made on my part either. Massive differences to overlook, but the male hamster of whoremongers is quite vigorous.
So marriage is basically whoremongering?
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09-29-2017, 09:44 AM
This thread isnt going the way I expected.
All you gotta do is ask them questions and listen to what they have to say and shit.
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09-29-2017, 10:46 AM
Technically, Samseau is absolutely right, but it's more useful to see Hefner as a deep state social engineer than a basic pimp. I've used Gloria Steinem as his female equivalent (especially apt comparison given that she was tightly linked with Hefner), but maybe I should have used Helen Gurley Brown instead, the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
She is the same age as Hefner and has had a similar influence on young women, with a similar message pushing hedonistic and materialistic pursuits, and devaluating marriage and family. The goal is the same, to break down family structure. Women are turned into helpless neurotic consumers and wage slaves (or welfare slaves for single mothers), while men become slaves to their hedonistic impulses, both obeying to a "do what thy wilt" Crowlean mantra, becoming dysfunctional love-starved people obsessed with sex, always looking for their next carousel ride.
The goal here is the promotion of arrested development and a state of extended adolescence. When women and men have children, their cultural and political perspective change. Idealist liberals become more grounded, some of those changes are biological. By getting men and women to turn their lives into a prolonged adolescence, they not only suppress demographic growth, but also stunt personal growth, weakening the social fiber making people easier to control. The promotion of homosexuality has exactly in the same goals.
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09-29-2017, 11:24 AM
If I am in total agreement with Leonard D Neubache then something is really amiss. Look Mr Hefner is not perfect , but he made a magazine with pictures of hot naked women, he had sex with 1000's of hot naked women, he became wealthy as a direct result of hot naked women, he lived in a mansion where he had every kind of sex possible with hot naked women, and partied like a rockstar. He built and maintained an empire that at one point included casinos , hotels, a 747, a cable channel in addition to his flagship magazine. Sure he did some things I did not like (supporting feminism) but he did a lot more I did like (supporting integration, pictures of hot college pussy, interviews with great men, Playboy TV, ect.). No one is perfect , but he added more positives to my life than negatives. I respect Mr Hefner and if I could pull off what he did I absolutely would. Rest in Peace Mr Hefner, you sly devil, it was one hell of life for you without a doubt-I salute you.
My big regret is I was not significant enough to be invited to the mansion in the 90's when it was still popping, and that I did not accomplish enough to be featured in the Playboy interview during Hefner's lifetime.
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