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bostonman Grand Master

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Playboy contributed to one of my earliest sexual experiences - and no, I don't mean jerking off.

 

My dad subscribed to Playboy, and he didn't hide the back issues - my younger brother and I knew where they were. And of course we looked at the pics (though I was already aware, in my early teens, that I think I preferred the other team lol), but I actually did read some of the articles and stuff too - and that was in itself my first exposure to truly frank sexual talk.

 

But - it was that day that my cute friend Tim and I were sitting in my room, on the bed, leafing through a Playboy, where he decided to initiate a little game of "truth or dare" with me. We didn't do more than just stripping for each other (it happened again sometime later, and that 2nd time it also led to experimenting with blowjobs). I took the dare first. Then I dared Tim to strip. I remember him saying he would, but he wanted to finish looking at the Playboy first lol. (Maybe that was helping him get hard?)

 

When he did finally strip, I was treated to a close look at his impressive cock (I don't know how big it was, but for a young teen, it was surely on the very hung side lol), though I didn't get to play with it. (We were also aware that my parents were in the house lol). I'll never forget that moment. (Tim and I never really got very far with things, but I still fantasize about what could have happened lol.)

 

Anyway, it's just funny to think back to that day, and how Playboy was part of it. ;)

 

RIP, Mr. Hefner.

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There's a lot I deplore about Hefner and the attitude toward women his magazine encouraged and enabled, but I applaud the willingness to talk about sex openly. He certainly made a mark on society, and in the long run the good probably balances out the bad.

 

Fun fact: my mother once bought a Playboy calendar as a gift for my father. She was ahead of her time!

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Meet Cooper Hefner, the heir of the Playboy empire.

 

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jjkrkwood Grand Master

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Hmmmm, he looks like he can be a little "pervy"... I LIKE that !

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jjkrkwood Grand Master

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How many men are willing to pay for soft porn nudes of other men? The only ones I can think of are guys who grew up wih muscle culture mags, but that's not the demographic that advertisers crave.

 

While that is absolutely True, the same can be said for soft porn female nudes... Ya never know when a person craves a "hard copy" ?

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I respectfully and strongly disagree. His porn sucks and he's got a reputation for being unlikable at best. He's done nothing for the gay community except malign folks for going bareback until he realized he could make money off of it. Hugh Hefner's last breathe had more soul in it than Micheal Lucas could ever hope to have.

 

RIP, Hugh.

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Hugh Hefner’s Surprising Contribution To The Early Gay Rights Movement

"Sexual adventure is rooted in curiosity."

 

Hugh Hefner passed away Thursday at age 91, and while the Playboy publisher is best known as a heterosexual hedonist, he was an early ally to the nascent gay rights movement.

 

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Back in 1955, more than a decade before the Stonewall riots, Playboy published “The Crooked Man,” a sci-fi story by Charles Beaumont set in a world where homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were persecuted.

 

It turns out some people did read Playboy for the articles, as the magazine received a flood of angry letters about the story. Hefner wasn’t having it: “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong too,” he wrote in response.

 

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“I published it first and foremost because I thought it was a good story,” he told the Advocate’s Jeremy Kinser in 2010.

 

“But I was well aware of the fact that it would be perceived as controversial because Esquirehad already turned it down… At the same time I was obviously aware of the fact that it would be controversial and, as we discovered, in some corners misunderstood. Some people felt it was homophobic.”

 

And he practiced what he preached: In the 2008 biography Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Hef revealed he was once propositioned by a gay man and decided to give it a go.

 

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Though ultimately it wasn’t for him, he told Kinser, “Sexual adventure is rooted in curiosity.”

 

Critics have argued Hefner was a misogynist who’s life work degraded women, but he funded numerous legal battles for reproductive rights and birth control, declaring in 2002, “I was a feminist before there was such a thing as feminism.”

 

In more recent years, the man who wasn’t a big proponent of going down the aisle shared his support for marriage equality.

 

“Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world,” he told The Daily Beast. “The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven’t been doing that well at it on their own.”

 

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In an editorial in the September 2012 issue of Playboy, Hefner wrote, “The fight for gay marriage is, in reality, a fight for all of our rights. Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time. Today, in every instance of sexual rights falling under attack, you’ll find legislation forced into place by people who practice discrimination disguised as religious freedom.”

 

He added that their goal is “to dehumanize everyone’s sexuality and reduce us to using sex for the sole purpose of perpetuating our species. To that end, they will criminalize your entire sex life.”

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Keith30309 Grand Master

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For me he is one of those people from the past who lived larger-than-life existences and had a big presence in popular culture in my early childhood. Imagine if Frank Sinatra, Andy Warhol, Jackie Onassis, John Wayne, etc., were still around. Hefner was the coolest of the cool... edgy enough to be controversial but still appear on The Tonight Show.

 

I can remember being with my mother shopping at a mall and she bought a Playboy magazine. It was probably around 1972 and very risqué. I recall she folded it up and stuffed it into her purse... I didn't know exactly what it was but knew I wasn't supposed to see it. Of course I located it in a nightstand drawer after a thorough search, along with a copy of Xaviera Hollander's "The Happy Hooker". Jackpot :p Together they were responsible for every pair of white tube socks I owned to become permanently crusty.

 

 

 

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I respectfully and strongly disagree. His porn sucks and he's got a reputation for being unlikable at best. He's done nothing for the gay community except malign folks for going bareback until he realized he could make money off of it. Hugh Hefner's last breathe had more soul in it than Micheal Lucas could ever hope to have.

 

RIP, Hugh.

 

Not sure Hef was much better in the likability department. He didn't have a huge group of friends and was considered crotchety. As QTR said, he was certainly no feminist. He gave his live-in harem a curfew and forced them to groom themselves to his specifications, including bleaching their hair, plastic surgery etc. The girls said that he gave them a hard time on payday. Many of the them felt like he was incarcerating them for money, even though he barely slept with many of them. It was as if he enjoyed wasting their youth and beauty while not using them himself. Of course, he wasn't alone in doing that. I guess sex is as much about the value of possessing something valuable--or being possessed--as it is about the act.

 

Nevertheless, he started a porn revolution. RIP.

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Not sure Hef was much better in the likability department. He didn't have a huge group of friends and was considered crotchety. As QTR said, he was certainly no feminist. He gave his live-in harem a curfew and forced them to groom themselves to his specifications, including bleaching their hair, plastic surgery etc. The girls said that he gave them a hard time on payday. Many of the them felt like he was incarcerating them for money, even though he barely slept with many of them. It was as if he enjoyed wasting their youth and beauty while not using them himself. Of course, he wasn't alone in doing that. I guess sex is as much about the value of possessing something valuable--or being possessed--as it is about the act.

 

Nevertheless, he started a porn revolution. RIP.

His politics (outside his objectification, ownership and exploitation of women) were progressive and forward-thinking as well, as others have mentioned. He funded the search for the bodies of the civil rights volunteers in Philadelphia, Mississippi "depicted" in that whitewashed white savior movie Mississippi Burning, which made it seem like the FBI cared when it didn't: a far more egregious error than the portrayal of LBJ in Selma about which Steven and others waxed so wrothe.

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