(09-28-2017, 09:24 AM)Rico Wrote: I only read the articles....

Funny but, in fact, the articles were very good. Frequent contributors or featured authors included Jack Kerouc, Ray Bradbury, Shel Silverstein, Ian Fleming and Dan Jenkins among others, plus the interviews were outstanding.

I'm conflicted about Hef. As an adolescent in the age before unlimited access to free pornography his magazine was, well, inspirational. But when he talked about how he empowered women I remembered an interview I read with porn legend Linda Lovelace. She was not a very smart girl, and was thrilled when Hefner invited her to his mansion to view a screening of the movie in which she starred, Deep Throat. She bought into him describing the movie as art and felt the glamorous event was acknowledging her as a legitimate star. Hefner invited her to sit by him and at some point in the movie he crushed her spirit and fragile ego by revealing his whole purpose for feting her - to experience her expertise in the sex act featured in the movie. She complied because it brought her down to earth and reminded her what men felt was her real purpose and worth in life.

This story reminds me that, at his core, Hugh Hefner was just a creepy old rich guy.

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