Posted on 05/01/2012 7:35:07 PM PDT by Morgana
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, May 1, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the overwhelming, ready availability of the most hardcore, graphic pornographic content to almost anyone today, especially via the Internet, Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner worries the nation is teetering upon the precipice of another Victorian age.
In a rare editorial, “The War on Sex,” Hefner wrote in the May issue of Playboy that “repressed conservatives”are “pounding on America’s bedroom” to “again regulate our sex lives.” He specifically named Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rush Limbaugh. “While wooing the conservative vote, these candidate revealed the ways a GOP-led government would decide whom we can have sex and for what reasons — singled, married, straight, or gay.”
His editorial seemed to criticize “allowing employers to avoid providing contraception for religious reasons.”
“If these zealots have their way, our hard-won sexual liberation — women’s rights, reproductive rights, and rights to privacy — lie [sic] in peril.” He deemed this “an organized attack on our most basic human freedom.”
“We won’t let that happen,” he continued. “Welcome to the new sexual revolution.”
Hefner, who turned 86 on April 9, describes himself as an independent. However, he has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Democratic politicians including Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart, John Kerry, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Julian Bond and George McGovern. He has also funded the Democratic National Committee, the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee, and Hispanic Unity USA.
Ana Marie Cox, a liberal blogger for the UK Guardian, told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell that the pajama-clad publisher had not gone far enough. “It’s titillating to talk about this as the war against sex,” she said, “but this is really about civil rights and human rights and about gender equality.”
“If anyone has been waging a ‘war on sex’ it is Hugh Hefner and other pornographers like him who have objectified the bodies of women and have taken a beautiful act – one that God created to be an expression of total, self-giving love and to transmit new human life – and cheapened and reduced it to the mere satisfaction of a bodily appetite,” Fr. Peter West, vice president for missions at Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews.com. “The ‘hard won sexual liberation’ he speaks of has come at the cost of over 53 million dead from abortion, an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, millions of broken relationships, and millions of hollow, immature men who are incapable of mature and faithful relationships.”
The decision to frame the issue as a political attack meant little to Fr. West. “Human Life International does not identify with a political party, and we’re sure the GOP can take care of itself in that respect,” he said.
However, the social doctrines of the Playboy philosophy motivated him to point out the sexual liberation’s real social harms, including pornography’s ability to alter neurobiology. Exposure is particularly dangerous for young people. For example, a 13-year-old boy molested his five-year-old sister after years of pornographic addiction.
But the profits are high for its producers. The magazine ExtremeTech estimates that pornography accounts for 30 percent of the web’s total traffic. Its consumers spend $3,075.64 every second of the day to get their fix.
Fr. West said, “Looking at the whole picture, it is impossible to call the radical sexual liberation of the last several decades a ‘win’ for anyone” – except perhaps Hefner and other pornographers.
So, Hugh Hefner thinks Ron Paul is a prude?
Someone better tell Dennis Hof and his Bunnies.
He sails RUSH LIMBAUGH represents a Victorian attitude toward sex? Really? Really? Can Hefner not count to four? I would never hold Limbaugh as an example of a godly attitude toward sex.
He sails RUSH LIMBAUGH represents a Victorian attitude toward sex? Really? Really? Can Hefner not count to four? I would never hold Limbaugh as an example of a godly attitude toward sex.
Remember that Rush called Sandra Fluke a spade for being what she is. So yea Rush has some Godly sexual morals. He knows a slut when he sees it and rebukes it, unlike Hugh who bangs it without knowing her name.
Obnoxious old pervert goes around in his pajamas and robe like he wants to be ready any time. LOL
The only way he can get any action to to pay hos.
Does he honestly think those blonds would pay the least bit of attention to him without his money??
Secretly, they can’t stand him and his dog pooped ‘mansion’.
Hugh was a great “watcher”.....a piss poor participant...
(he'll hire someone to take care of the hospice girl..and leave her some money for “participating” in his sexual revolution..Know what I mean?) )
The dude’s starting to look like Gollum.
All I can say is, if you had to sleep on the floor, would you sleep on a Conservative’s floor, or the floor at the Playboy Mansion?
What an absolute moron. This government is mailing free condoms to 11 year olds and he thinks we’re repressed.
Here’s an idea Hefner, you pathetic diseased perv geezer. Why don’t you get down on your hands and knees and lick up the brown stains all over the toilet white carpets in your cesspool mansion. Make yourself useful for once, and stop with the senilic delusional rants from the 60’s.
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You just have to be fabulously well-to-do to be able to afford being so entirely out of touch with the real world. Being this crazy is a luxury those of us anxious to prevent the annihilation of our nation certainly can't afford.
I still haven't heard a good reason for why an employer should provide contraception to their employees? It's not a health benefit, but a nice-to-have.
The left just isn’t going to be happy until it all breaks down to civil war. And then they are going to be really unhappy.
Hefner’s done more to increase the percentage of sluts in this country than anyone else I can think of - he should be happy people like Rush are paying attention.....
Hugh has long past teetered upon the precipce of loony and fallen head first into senility.
If sex is that necessart then employers or the government should provide magazines and tissue for all us single fellas.
we have men with a diminished sexual drive, less testosterone....and the need to actually take a chemical so their little fellows can react properly....
we're not even producing enough children to maintain our culture...
hey guess what Hugh...your messiah bamey will have us in sharia law pretty soon and you and your peckerwoods will be on the chopping block....
but please, just don't vote for Romney....*sigh*
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