Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream

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Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine Founder and Star of Girls Next Door, Dies at 91". MSN. September 27, 2017. Archived from the original on September 28, 2017 . Retrieved September 27, 2017. This book is fascinating as much for its analysis of changing American culture and how Playboy fit (and fits) into it as for its portrayal of Hefner. Redden, Molly (September 29, 2017). "Effusive Hugh Hefner tributes ignore Playboy founder's dark side". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 28, 2017 . Retrieved September 29, 2017.

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Hefner was born in Chicago on April 9, 1926, [4] the first child of Glenn Lucius Hefner (1896–1976), an accountant, and his wife Grace Caroline (Swanson) Hefner (1895–1997) who worked as a teacher. His parents were from Nebraska. [5] [6] He had a younger brother, Keith (1929–2016). [7] [8] [9] His mother was of Swedish ancestry, and his father was German and English. [10] [11] There is so much more to Hefner than the magazine, he loved jazz and old movies. He surprisingly had no interest in traveling the world. He was against race discrimination. Then there were his personal relationship ideas. Apparently he believed in the double standard, blaming his first wife for her one time indiscretion, which she admitted before they married. He has been keeping an exhaustive “scrapbook” of his life since adolescence, which now consists of over 1800 volumes and takes up much of the third floor of the Mansion. Separately, Sharona is surprised to see Amber Post, the woman of the hour, off by herself, crying softly. The two women bond when Amber shows pictures of her four-year-old daughter, and worries that she'll be ashamed of her mother when she grows up. Sharona sympathizes, admitting the similarities between their situations, but the important thing is dealing with the present. A biography of Hugh Hefner is not complete without delving into the Playboy Mansion, the rotating round bed and the infamous grotto …I understand that. A biography of Hugh Hefner is not complete without looking at Mr. Hefner’s personal sexual philosophy … I get that too. This book offers just a little too much of all that. Titillating? Not so much … parts of this book could have been called The American “Wet” Dream.Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris Wed at Playboy Mansion". The Hollywood Reporter. December 31, 2012. Archived from the original on February 15, 2020 . Retrieved February 20, 2020. Hefner died at the Playboy Mansion on September 27, 2017, at the age of 91. [86] [87] The cause was sepsis brought on by an E. coli infection. [88] [89] [90] Vile, John R.; Hudson, David L.; Schultz, David Andrew (2009). Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. p.564. ISBN 978-0-87289-311-5. Hugh Hefner's Cause of Death Revealed". New York Daily News. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 . Retrieved October 4, 2017. The book was well written, organized, flowed smoothly, although it was a bit wordy and slightly repetitive at times, Watts definitely made sure every detail of Hefner's life was described expertly.

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner writes passionate plea in support of gay marriage". NYDailyNews.com. August 23, 2012. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012 . Retrieved August 23, 2012. The campaign was successful. Hefner grew into a popular and unusually horny teen. He also came to consider himself a sort of representative American male, confident that his own dampened urges and acquisitive mania were shared across the nation. What Hefner wanted, he figured, America must also want. Throughout his biography, Watts regards Hefner as a sort of human Richter scale attuned to the subterranean desires of American males. It is this instinct, combined with a right-place/right-time circumstance, to which Watts attributes Playboy‘s success. Wow. I thought I knew a decent amount of the story of Hugh Hefner but boy was I wrong. Largely a book about Playboy moreso than a pure biography, though it's pretty much impossible to separate the man from the magazine. From the first issues and near instant success of the early 1950s through the turbulent 1960s sexual revolution and women's liberation movement, to the 1970s Decade of Me and peak of popularity, to the near-complete teardown of the empire in the Reaganite reactionism of the 1980s and neotraditionalism of the 1990s and eventual resurgence of the early 2000s, Watts paints an extremely vivid and three-dimensional picture of a very complex man. Most assuredly a man ahead of his time in the 50s, arguably already out of sync with societal pressures by the mid 60s, Mr. Playboy takes you through Hefner's wild swings between monogamy and marriage to full-on hedonistic group sex one would expect from a man 50 years his junior (and certainly the women in his life tended to stay in the under-25 category, even has he was pushing 80). One could fault Hef for the destruction of family values across the world, and for increased unhappiness of humankind. But one must admire his tenacity and vision to fulfill the lifelong dream of most men worldwide, debatable on its own merits. It's quite interesting to take a journey of multiple phases with Hef, starting from his unmooring from puritanical beliefs in the 50s, to his adoption of his own dreamed lifestyle inspired by his friend and promotions manager Lownes.On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for promoting obscene literature after he published an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield in bed with a man present. [26] The case went to trial and resulted in a hung jury. [27] Jared Leto to star in Hugh Hefner biopic". BBC News. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on October 19, 2018 . Retrieved July 21, 2018. Suzanne Moore wrote in The Guardian that Hefner threatened to file a lawsuit against her for calling him a "pimp". [92] Defending her position, Moore argued that "he was a man who bought and sold women to other men". [92] She further stated that "part of Hefner's business acumen was to make the selling of female flesh respectable and hip, to make soft porn acceptable." [92] Julie Bindel argued in The Independent that Hefner "caused immeasurable damage by turning porn—and therefore the buying and selling of women's bodies—into a legitimate business." [93] Robin Abcarian wrote in the Los Angeles Times, Quoting Wendy Hamilton, that Hefner "probably did more to mainstream the exploitation of women's bodies than any other figure in American history," adding that he "managed to convince many women that taking off their clothes for men's pleasure was not just empowering, but a worthy goal in itself." She further stated that Hefner "embodied the aesthetic notion that images of women—and women themselves—exist to please men." [94] That said, this book clearly shows the importance of Hef's influence in breaking down some barriers and steadfastly preserving others. On the one hand, he was a sexual revolutionary in the 1950s-60s pushing the boundaries of traditional courtship by arguing that young people can and should enjoy each other before marriage without judgement. And he always ran a gentlemanly publication, even to its detriment when new magazines lampooning it began to flourish. But Hef himself always maintained a double standard. He could be with anyone he wanted but his partners were required to be faithful. Women could hold jobs but their positions should be complimentary to men, not compete with them. Plus, keeping his girlfriends young ensured they'd always be vulnerable to his charm until they grew old enough to know better.

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