While all these douche bros tweet about how Hugh Hefner was badass for getting so much “pussy” and having young “bitches” around him just remember what he was really like:
• Wrote about female sexuality and how women should enjoy themselves in the 60’s and 70’s
• Hired female photographers when magazines like Vogue still didn’t
• Openly accepted gay sexuality even when he was young
• Helped Betty Page get the rights to her image in the 90’s when she was poor and elderly and people were making money off of her without her knowledge
• Had his ex wife and kids live next door so he could still see them a help raise them
• All playboy playmates were allowed to use the facilities at the Playboy Mansion for the rest of their lives, it wasn’t just a place for the newest young girls
• Didn’t use his fame and image to force girls to be with him or assault them. He would formally ask girls to live with him and be his girlfriend, and they were all over 18.
If you don’t like him that’s fine, but he wasn’t some sexual predator-he did what wanted openly and was honest about it.
RIP Hugh
Except he was.
– Hugh Hefner controlled what his “girlfriends” wore, how late they stayed out, what they looked like, etc.
– He encouraged them to take Quaaludes when they were out partying with him
– He was constantly creating infighting among them to essentially keep them on their toes and always working to stay in his good graces.
– He would pressure them into performing sex acts with each other while he got high and got off.
– He would regularly isolate them from other people in social situations by essentially making them his human lapdogs who were essentially chained to him all night.
– He would regularly rate their appearance with Polaroids.
– He kept mementos (medical paperwork) of a former critic who was sleeping with an ex-Playmate.
– Hugh created this aire of being a cultured Renaissance man who respected women and their wants and desires, but he would refuse to talk about anything deeper than sex or day-to-day superficial bullshit with his “girls”, even to the point of “explaining” movies to them during his famous movie nights.
– Former Playmates referred to the mansion as more of a “prison”.Don’t go off with that pseudo-sex positive bullshit. You can be a bad person and do good things. That’s what made him so appealing to so many people. He would choose “controversial” writers for the magazine, donated to anti-censorship causes, supported Civil Rights and LGBT campaigns, but Hugh Hefner was a roach who made grotesque amounts of money off of the sexuality of thousands of women with nowhere near as much payoff for them, and just because they could use his pool for the rest of their lives doesn’t make him a good person. You don’t get to keep women you “love” in social captivity in your house and be a genuinely good person. Fuck off with that RIP nonsense, it’s a waste.
Of all places, I thought Tumblr would remember how one of the “bunnies” who didn’t sign an NDA spilled the fucking tea on what it’s like in there. Have a source with about 20 other sources in the article. Stop celebrating some fuck who let Cosby assault a woman on his property.
BEING ACTIVE IN CIVIL AND GAY RIGHTS DOES NOT NEGATE THE FACT THAT HE WAS VIOLENTLY MISOGYNISTIC, ABUSIVE, AND PREDATORY.
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