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The Loin in Winter: Hefner Reflects, and Grins (NY TIMES Tries out "People" Model)
NY Times ^ | 10/23/09 | Brooks Barnes

Posted on 10/24/2009 6:53:11 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus

LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner leaned back on a red loveseat, the saggy one in the study of his infamous mansion here, and interlocked his fingers behind his head. A visitor had asked — more like shouted, since he has trouble hearing — a question about mortality.

At 83, does he think about it?

In a word, no. Mr. Hefner, the legendarily libidinous founder of Playboy, the prophet of hedonism, does not believe that his denouement is at hand.

He doesn’t act like it, either. He still works full days on his magazine, flies to Europe and Las Vegas, pops Viagra, visits nightclubs with his three live-in girlfriends — each young enough to be his great-granddaughter — and is working with the producer Brian Grazer on a film.

“This is one of the very best times of my life,” he said, grinning, dressed in pajamas and slippers. “It’s even better, richer than people know.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hefner; mediafailure; moralabsolutes; nyt; playboy; pornography; tabloid
The NY Times stoops to put this Viagra engorged pimp with his three live-in girlfriends (re:whores) on its front page. I don't know who is worse, the Denizen of Dirt, or the dying Gray Whore of 42nd street. They are feeding off each other like infected vampires.

Flush the two of them.

I find it surprising, that the champion of women's rights glosses over the fact that three young girls are living with him. What is their relationship about? How can three young girls be his girlfriend at the same time? What? Is he some kind of crypto-Muslim polygamist creep who treats women like farm animals? What signal does that send to teenage girls who are pushed to read the Times by their intellectual superiors. How is this explained to them? And what of the teenage boys who read it - does it mean that this porn pimp should be emulated?

They are bringing everything down - reducing us to soulless animals and Hefner has sought to do that his whole life.

1 posted on 10/24/2009 6:53:11 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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To: Titus-Maximus

The end fate of P-boy and the NY Times.

2 posted on 10/24/2009 6:58:07 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
Mr. Hefner . . . does not believe that his denouement is at hand.

Someone Else may have the final say on that.

3 posted on 10/24/2009 7:00:56 AM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Titus-Maximus
three young girls are living with him.

I think this term should at the very least be reserved for girls under the age of consent.

His present bimbos are 23, 20 and 20.

And what of the teenage boys who read it - does it mean that this porn pimp should be emulated?

Teenage boys need no encouragement from Hefner to fantasize about multiple gorgeous women as bedmates.

4 posted on 10/24/2009 7:02:07 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Pornography and lack of God because of it are the cause of all the raping killing of children. You have a lot to answer for, Hughie.


5 posted on 10/24/2009 7:02:48 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: Sherman Logan
Excellent points. PB was hard to come by(Ha! Ha!) when I was a teenager. Had to make do with the Sears an Penny's catalog.
6 posted on 10/24/2009 7:05:19 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. V for victory)
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To: Ann Archy

Is Playboy technically porn? They don’t depict sex acts I believe.


7 posted on 10/24/2009 7:05:29 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Playboy brought porno INTO the house and MAINSTREAMED it...on the COCKTAIL TABLE.....for all to see....even the kids.


8 posted on 10/24/2009 7:09:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: Ann Archy

You didn’t answer my question. Is the depiction of nudes porn? I thought you had to have sexual activity for that.


9 posted on 10/24/2009 7:13:12 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

My definition of porn starts with Viagra commercials.


10 posted on 10/24/2009 7:14:53 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: Borges
In the 1960’s Playboy had a regular feature called “Sex in the Cinema” which depicted and celebrated sexual acts in the movies.
11 posted on 10/24/2009 7:15:43 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Titus-Maximus

Well said, FRiend!


12 posted on 10/24/2009 7:18:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Titus-Maximus
He'll be 90 in a few years - and his ideas - like his shrunken body - are relics of the past...

He thinks he's a cool "cat"? That term was "in" in the 1950's more than a half century ago. Will these people ever get off the stage?

13 posted on 10/24/2009 7:18:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rahm Emanuel IS Uriah Heep - - - It's NOT "hate" when it's true.)
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To: Ann Archy
How about ads for feminine hygiene products and ads for steamy R rated films?
14 posted on 10/24/2009 7:18:20 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Sherman Logan

“Teenage boys need no encouragement from Hefner to fantasize about multiple gorgeous women as bedmates.”

Yeah, but now they are viewed as heroes for it! So go out and do as much as you can to as many as you can, have no check on your behavior. I think we know where that leads......


15 posted on 10/24/2009 7:18:26 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: Borges

Yes. Technically and actually.

Any whacking-off material is pornography, whether it depicts sex acts or not.


16 posted on 10/24/2009 7:23:13 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy’s America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Borges

DISGUSTING!


17 posted on 10/24/2009 7:24:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Renaissance paintings? Lyric Poetry?
18 posted on 10/24/2009 7:25:44 AM PDT by Borges
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To: fishtank

Reminds me of Joe Pesci’s demise in Casino.


19 posted on 10/24/2009 7:25:59 AM PDT by gusty
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To: Titus-Maximus

I stopped watching Hannity some time back, but, on occasion, as I am scanning through channels I drop into his show. One evening, within the last few months, I jumped in as he was announcing his upcoming panel discussion. When I heard that his list included Christine (I think that’s her first name.) Hefner, “former CEO of ‘Playboy’ magazine”, I was reminded once again of the reasons I stopped watching that jerk’s show.


20 posted on 10/24/2009 7:26:53 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Titus-Maximus

After making myself watch the reality show on E starring his Three Bimbos, Hefner can only be described as pathetic. He is a shrunken, drooling little old man, shuffling around in his pajamas, acting as if he is still vigorous, viral, and potent. The effort to perpetuate the notion that this codger and the Three Golddigging Bimbos are having “relations” is laughable beyond belief. Everyone knows better, but no one in the media will actually admit it. They continue to advance the myth that Hef still has “it.” Yuk...


21 posted on 10/24/2009 7:29:07 AM PDT by AnnGora (As a result of the Stimulus Bill, Napoleon has no more tots to give.)
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To: gusty

That still makes me nauseous.


22 posted on 10/24/2009 7:29:38 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Sherman Logan

What do the parents of these young women think? I guess they don’t.


23 posted on 10/24/2009 7:31:13 AM PDT by DWC (what do kids know about)
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To: Titus-Maximus

The best explanation for the results of this kind of behavior came from, of all people, a drug-addled ex professional wrestler called Jake “The Snake” Roberts. He talked about life on the road for a celebrity and all of the temptations. First it starts off with 1 woman. Then 2 women at once. Then 2 women with each other while you watch. Pretty soon you’re so jaded that when you return home to your own wife there’s nothing.

Sex is like any other drug, you need a bigger fix to get the same results. Imagine what kind of a fix it would take to get someone like Hugh Hefner interested after all of these years. Odds are his 3 girlfriends are more for the sake of his image than anything else.

Hefner himself once remarked many years ago in a Dick Cavett interview that the part of a woman’s body he found most interesting were the eyes. I doubt he was being coy for tv.


24 posted on 10/24/2009 7:31:17 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Borges
Is Playboy technically porn?

Of course, it's porn. 1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement

25 posted on 10/24/2009 7:33:36 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Joe Wilson!)
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To: DWC

Maybe I’ll drop by and ask the parents of the twins. According to a recent article in the local rag, they live about five miles from me.

I’m sure they’re very proud.

The guy seems to have fixated on big blondes a long time ago. Doesn’t seem to go for variety much in his bimbas.


26 posted on 10/24/2009 7:35:09 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Arthur McGowan; Ann Archy
Mr. Hefner...does not believe that his denouement is at hand.

Like all before him, he will find that it is soon enough. And if not prepared for it spiritually, he will find that all of his hedonistic, vulgar, whoring and depravity will have left him wholly unprepared for that day, and much to answer for.

In that day, all of his riches, all of his earthly pleasures, all of his vice, his earthly mansion built on a foundation of sand, and his three (or however many young girls he has on his payroll) will count for nothing and in fact be as dross, and as a millstone around his neck...calling up just suffering for the horrible influence he has had on others.

27 posted on 10/24/2009 7:36:06 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Jeff Head

Many hedonists describe their life as meaningless towards the end. One notable example was Oscar Wilde, who lamented a lifetime of sexual acts with boys on his death bed. Hef seems not to have regret or shame.


28 posted on 10/24/2009 7:40:47 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Jeff Head

Maybe he will repent.


29 posted on 10/24/2009 7:42:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: Ann Archy
My definition of porn starts with Viagra commercials.

My pre-adolescent introduction to sexual literature started with my library's collection of Cosmopolitan mag, available at supermarket checkouts everywhere with not a peep of complaint from feminists.

30 posted on 10/24/2009 7:45:35 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

For me, it was National Geographic. To this day, the sight of a woman with her neck and ears stretched by plates causes me to become strangely aroused...


31 posted on 10/24/2009 7:48:51 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: Ann Archy

Just the sight of two empty claw-foot bathtubs side by side makes me strangely aroused.


32 posted on 10/24/2009 7:49:52 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: PapaBear3625

I thought Cosmo was the same as Playboy....disgusting.


33 posted on 10/24/2009 7:52:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy (18%)
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To: All

Sorry...I was trying to inject levity in this. I just came from a thread that said we are giving hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to advance “Muslim science. In contrast, the thought of a desiccated Hugh Hefner seem amusing by comparison.


34 posted on 10/24/2009 7:53:37 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: Borges

For some people, apparently.


35 posted on 10/24/2009 7:59:21 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy’s America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

It’s hard to imagine anyone with internet access buying Playboy for the libidinous content anymore. Magazines of all sorts have been technologically obsolete for a decade or more.


37 posted on 10/24/2009 8:03:48 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: AnnGora
vigorous, viral, and potent.

I think you mean "virile", but in this case maybe not ;-)

38 posted on 10/24/2009 8:03:50 AM PDT by badbass
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To: badbass

haha, I didn’t catch that one! I was channeling the G-Man and made a boo-boo. However, I think I will let it stand as is!


40 posted on 10/24/2009 8:56:22 AM PDT by AnnGora (As a result of the Stimulus Bill, Napoleon has no more tots to give.)
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To: Ann Archy

Let us pray he will repent to the glory of God.

“What thinketh this, O man .....knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” (Romans 2:3a & 4c).
“Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men:....” (2 Cor. 5:11).

“For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” (2 Cor. 7:10)

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor theives, nor coveteous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor, extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you......
(1 Corinthians 6:9, 10, 11a)

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkerness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galatians 5:19-20)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: fo what soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirt reap everlasting life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)


41 posted on 10/24/2009 9:15:55 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonyous)
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To: Agamemnon

I love you too. Just asking technical questions dude. I love language.


42 posted on 10/24/2009 12:25:46 PM PDT by Borges
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