Yes, he supported abortion rights, though so did our current president at one time. Mr. Hefner’s reason was clear. The image of the playboy he promoted in his magazine was a fellow who loved his stereo equipment, his expensive liquor and his bachelor pad, and refused to be cornered into marriage just because a young lady he had bedded had the misfortune to get pregnant. As Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her 1983 book, “The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight From Commitment”: “The magazine’s real message was not eroticism but escape from the bondage of breadwinning. Sex — or Hefner’s Pepsi-clean version of it — was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy. In every issue, in every month, there was a Playmate to prove that a playboy didn’t have to be a husband to be a man.” The reason Mr. Hefner supported abortion was not from any feminist feeling; it was purely strategic.
When I was working in Times Square with Women Against Pornography in 1980, I briefly got to know Linda Boreman, better known as Linda Lovelace, the star of “Deep Throat.” She told me about her visit to Mr. Hefner’s Los Angeles mansion, where he said he’d like to see her copulate with a dog. Ms. Boreman was an unstable person, but I have no reason to disbelieve her on this one because so many women have shared similar stories. Holly Madison’s 2015 book “Down the Rabbit Hole” is an eye-popping account of her rigidly policed existence as one of Hef’s live-in girlfriends. The sex was mandatory and terrible. There was a 9 p.m. curfew. She felt so isolated that she considered suicide. I urge you to read the whole thing.
Hef was trash.
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All the evidence you need to know that Hef was even worse than trash.
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Florida officials are looking forward to the homecoming of O.J. Simpson.
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Trump is deliberately trying to kill off Puerto Rico:
The twitter meltdowns today confirm it. Racist Trump is deliberately killing Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans: pic.twitter.com/QpTCUWQkgR
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 1, 2017
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Count me in on this phenomenon.
I will have to work until I die.
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It isn't just feminist commentators who thought Hef was a piece of shit.
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