Hugh Hefner dead at 91.

[Snapdragon]

Can not get anything past you Snap.....

OK, carry on.

Another INGO member posted this on Facebook and I think it's worthy of sharing in memory of Hef.

 

[thej27]

RIP
What seems to be forgotten or ignored about him is how hard he fought for 1st amendment rights and civil rights. He proudly brought in minority singers on his tv show when other shows wouldn't let them on. Much respect for that.

 

[indiucky]

1 name stands out.....Barbie Benton

Two...Debra Jo Fondren....

RIP Hugh....And a special thanks for all of the mammaries........

 

[spencer rifle]

Meh. He contributed in large part to the hookup/casual sex culture we are suffering under now, cheapening the singular experience of sex into just another entertainment.
While it was going on before him (though not so much out in the open), and it will continue after him, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!"

YMMV

 

[BGDave]

1 name stands out.....Barbie Benton

Outstanding choice. She always looked like Christmas morning.

 

[HoughMade]

Meh. He contributed in large part to the hookup/casual sex culture we are suffering under now, cheapening the singular experience of sex into just another entertainment.
While it was going on before him (though not so much out in the open), and it will continue after him, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!"

YMMV

^^This^^

 

[actaeon277]

1 name stands out.....Barbie Benton

yup

If you could not find the bunny on the cover, you could not look inside at the bunnies.

I remember that.

 

[Birds Away]

Outstanding choice. She always looked like Christmas morning.

Man, your Christmas mornings must have been a lot better than mine.

 

[chezuki]

Meh. He contributed in large part to the hookup/casual sex culture we are suffering under now, cheapening the singular experience of sex into just another entertainment.
While it was going on before him (though not so much out in the open), and it will continue after him, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!"

YMMV

Counterpoint:

Boobs.

 

[shootersix]

its just been announced that his eulogy will be read just like his magazines were..... held with one hand!


rip hef

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Meh. He contributed in large part to the hookup/casual sex culture we are suffering under now, cheapening the singular experience of sex into just another entertainment.
While it was going on before him (though not so much out in the open), and it will continue after him, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!"

YMMV

I blame Rock and Roll.


Hugh Heffner's best pick-up line: "Hi, I'm Hugh Heffner."

 

[indiucky]

Hugh Hefner gave off a more airbrushed quality than the girls in his magazine.

The founder of the most popular men’s magazine in history appeared as the personification of the libertine, do-your-own-thing age he created and then inhabited. But an authoritarian, do-my-thing streak pervaded the Playboy Mansion.
A fun-loving flock appeared at Hefner’s side and on his lap. But they discovered that not all blondes have more fun.
Hefner imposed a 9 p.m. curfew on his harem. He banned them from the Playboy Mansion’s kitchen. He required them to wear uniform flannel pajamas. He tracked them with monitors and videographers.
Hefner’s mania for control showed itself in an obsessive-compulsive disorder applied to people rather than, say, a book not flush with the rest of the shelf or the wrong number of Jolly Ranchers in the jar. The magazine mogul religiously clubbed at Las Palmas on Wednesdays (just not this Wednesday), deemed Thursdays restaurant night, scheduled sex for Fridays, and screened classic movies on Sundays. Rather than spontaneity in a smoking jacket, Hef lived his life as a creature of habit in the extreme.
In tell-all biographies, the girlfriends who received his allowances (an unkind name exists for women in such arrangements) turned on their ostensible benefactor. Izabella St. James described less than 20 minutes of intimacy in her two years as a mansion girlfriend. She reflected, “I may as well have lived in a convent.” Girlfriend Holly Madison claims that despite a half-dozen or so blonde beauties there for the taking, Hefner, perhaps in solidarity with his readers that made him rich, generally finished the sexual ritual by himself.
All this rebelled against the image that rebelled against societal norms. Hefner performed a sort of plastic surgery on his own image that evoked the plastic surgeries he bankrolled for his paramours. This cognitive dissonance afflicted his glossy, too.
He called his creation Playboy despite the availability of Chronic Masturbator as a magazine name. Soon pornographers trafficking in ugly rather than the beauty highlighted by Hefner followed suit by euphemistically naming low-rent, leave-nothing-to-the-imagination nudie journals High Society, Penthouse, Swank, and other monikers misleading their readers (users?) into mistaking seedy for classy. That Guy who warned against the “glamour of evil” a long time ago was on to something.
But one does a violence to Hugh Hefner’s good bad name to say it in the same sentence as Al Goldstein. Ray Bradbury fittingly first published what became Fahrenheit 451, a book ostensibly about people who burn them, in his magazine that so many wanted to burn. Milton Friedman, Jimmy Carter, Rush Limbaugh, Malcolm X, Saul Bellow, Ansel Adams and other luminaries sat for interviews. Playboy became the one skin magazine subscribers could straight-facedly say, “I read it for the articles.”
When the world that Playboy created proved inhospitable for Playboy, it pivoted away from nudes in 2015 before returning to them this year. If you can’t beat ‘em, don’t be them. Playboy, to its credit, never became Club International. The demand for naked women, never particularly low, eventually failed to pay the bills because of the oversupply of them. Ironically, Hugh Hefner struggled once the Eden of his imagination became a reality. Our dreams become nightmares like that.
In U2’s song “The Playboy Mansion,” after pondering “if O.J. is more than a drink” and “a Big Mac bigger than you think,” Bono wonders, “Have I got the gifts to get me through/The gates of that mansion.”
After a sybarite existence for most of his 95 years, Hugh Hefner, described as kind and fiercely loyal by friends, perhaps wondered, as most do, whether he possessed the gifts to get through the gates of that mansion. Surely he grasped that you can’t take the grotto, or the girls, with you.

Hugh Hefner gave off a more airbrushed quality than the girls in his magazine.

 

[spencer rifle]

Since watching a good friend's storybook marriage break up over this, I have little patience or sympathy for pornographers. Rare is the good woman who will endure competition from airbrushed (for the old fogies) or shopped "perfection" from these magazines/websites. You'll never be able to convince the good woman that "it's not about you." Just not worth it. Sure, they're just doing what the market pays for, but I don't have to like it, or those who produce it.

Don't mistake me for some prude. I have been a consumer, and still face the temptation every day. Nearly cost me all I had to give. And I felt the objectification of women increase with consumption.
I don't feel the need to celebrate a life of debauchery.

Rock and Roll:
“Remember (teenagers) that no matter how many millions are spent catering to your taste in music, your taste in music remains very bad: even more millions are devoted to the study and treatment of your pimples, but that doesn’t make pimples a good thing.” – Esquire magazine, 1965

 

[JettaKnight]

Never a fan, but darn if this Episode of the TV show isn't soooo retro cool... and Ike Turner is looks sane & Doug Kershaw looks like a fopp.

(safe for work)
[video=youtube;1JcRigcJgBk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcRigcJgBk[/video]

 

[Tanfodude]

Here's the list

Hugh Hefner?s Wives and Girlfriends Through the Years

 

[hoosierdoc]

Meh. He contributed in large part to the hookup/casual sex culture we are suffering under now, cheapening the singular experience of sex into just another entertainment.
While it was going on before him (though not so much out in the open), and it will continue after him, "It is inevitable that temptations to sin will come, but how terrible it will be for the person through whom they come!"

YMMV

+1

 

[Leadeye]

RIP, after one hell of a run.

A man who every month brought to us all that that most perfect of all the good Lord's artistic creations, the curves of a woman.

 

[Crusader17]

Man society is delusional. Liberals everywhere are probably praising the creator of playboy for his love of women. Then Trump says a "locker room comment" in a private conversation and gets crucified.

 

[HoughMade]

Man society is delusional. Liberals everywhere are probably praising the creator of playboy for his love of women. Then Trump says a "locker room comment" in a private conversation and gets crucified.

He was in favor of abortion (of course). That's all that really matters to them.

 

[indiucky]

He was in favor of abortion (of course). That's all that really matters to them.

QFT