Emma Obscura

liberatewomyn

good news girls hugh heftner fucking died

tooiconic

Hi, as a girl, I want to tell you that you’re fucking disgusting. A man who did nothing but make a magazine with women who willingly volunteered to associate with him just died and this how you react. He literally just fucking died. Have some respect.

liberatewomyn

Right! So let’s talk about how I’m the disgusting one in this situation, and about a man who “did nothing”! This is by no means a comprehensive list of the atrocities this man has committed.

Emotionally/sexually abused and manipulated women in the Playboy mansion:

From Jennifer Saginor, a woman who used to live at the Playboy mansion:

-“Honestly, are they Playmates or inmates?” (x)

- Girls had to stay tanned, slim, and ideally, blonde. They were also required to dress a certain way. (x)

- Heftner decided who was allowed to speak. (x)

- Women in the mansion were forced to do whatever Heftner wanted sexually. Women who disagreed or refused to participate were given horrible treatment and lowered in “ranks”. (x)

- Additionally, girls would be told to sleep together even if they weren’t bisexual: “He’s big into ‘girl-on’girl”.) (x)

- Diets were given to the women in the mansion who help them lose weight. Lots of girls were on amphetamines, and Jennifer described the emphasis on weight loss as “very abusive”. (x)

From Holly Madison, a woman who used to live at the Playboy mansion:

- “He knew roughly four things about each girl: her name, her age, where (approximately) she was from and how well she behaved and followed the rules. He liked to play favorites to keep everyone on their toes. How else could he stay in control of seven women? He needed to somehow maintain the upper hand.” (x)

- Hefner conducted a nightly “bizarre bedtime group sex ritual”. (x)

Other:

- “[The Playboy mansion] disguises a grubby world where some girls feel they are no better than prostitutes, paid pocket money by an octogenarian obsessive who funds plastic surgery to turn them into his physical ideal […]” (x)

- The mansion had dirty living conditions, with a rigid 9pm curfew for grown women. (x)

- “There was no protection and no testing for sexually transmitted diseases,” said a woman who used to live in the Playboy mansion. (x)

Supported pedophilia:

- Jennifer Sanginor stated that the Playboy mansion housed underage girls (x)

- Playboy magazine wrote an article containing an article on a book titled Without Shame: Encouraging the Child’s Healthy Sexual Development, saying its release “couldn’t have come at a better time”. This article was accompanied by an image of a child’s letter block with a nude, masturbating woman depicted on one side (captioned “never too young”). The book itself noted that “innumerable baby boys were born with fully erect sexual organs” and that “all girl babies lubricated vaginally in the first four to six hours of life” – and are, therefore, apparently ready for sexual intercourse. (x)

- Heftner made his sons Marston, 9, and Cooper, 10, share a bedroom with a “girlfriend” in the mansion. (x)

- Playboy published a feature article entitled “The Child-Pornography Myth” by Lawrence Stanley, which was originally published in Paidika, The Journal of Paedophilia. Stanley was also affiliated with Uncommon Desires, a publication geared toward those with a sexual interest in young girls. He has since been arrested for the possession of child pornography. (Playboy Magazine 1988) (x)

- Examining Playboy magazines over the span of 25 years, it was found that Santa Claus was depicted as a “child magnet” 329 times. In 170 of those cases, sexual activity was involved. (x)

- In urging men to have recreational sex, Playboy stated “date virgins, or very young lovers, or people who were monogamous for the past decade, and you cut down your chances of being exposed to the virus”. (Playboy Magazine May 1987)

- Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy centerfold, was tricked and intimidated into photo sessions by Snider at age 17, who then sold the photos and access to Dorothy herself to Hefner. Ms. Stratten said she was sexually molested by Hefner. After her death, Hefner was made aware that Ms. Stratten had hated the pornography made of her and had hated posing for it. He responded by issuing more videotapes of Ms. Stratten posing. (x)

- Playboy featured photos of Brooke Shields, painted sexually, naked in a bathtub, at age 10. (x)

Promoted Beastiality:

- Cartoons in Playboy depicted men raping animals as being humourous. (source link contains photo of an example cartoon)

- “Then Hefner said that while he liked “Deep Throat”, he was more interested by the movie [which she was forced into by her abusive husband] I’d made with a dog.”
“Oh, you saw that one?” Chuck [her batterer husband] said.
“Oh that was terrific,” Hefner said, “You know, we’ve tried that several times, tried to get a girl and a dog together, but it has never worked out.”
“Yeah, that can be very tricky,” Chuck said, “The chick’s got to know what she’s doing.”
“That’s something I’d like to see,” Hefner said, “I think I’ve seen every animal flick ever made but–”
Then Chuck offers Linda as a “willing” participant. (Ordeal by Linda Lovelace)

Other:

- Heftner offered an unwilling participant a quaalude. When she declined, he replied, “Usually I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ‘70s they used to call these pills ‘thigh openers’.” (x)

- Heftner on feminism: “These chicks are our natural enemy. What I want is a devastating piece that takes the militant feminists apart. They are unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes.” (x)

cresbrizzle

I kept seeing praise from surprising sources, many people I respect talking about being sad he was dead. A lot of people cite his abortion advocation but that does not mean he was a good person at all. Anyone that looks into the lives of bunnies could tell you that

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