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If there’s one thing you can’t charge Hugh Hefner of, it’s of not living his animation to the occupied, the way he wanted.
And as news of his death, at the grand old age of 91, was announced overnight, people began toasting the guy behind the Playboy empire and sharing their memories.
Of course, Hefner lived his life in what many considered to be an unconventional manner, regularly having multiple girlfriends at the same day in the infamous Playboy mansion, as well as marrying three times, twice with significant age gaps.
And, perhaps because he knew what it meant to be judged by other people, it shouldn’t be forgotten that he was an early adopter of the campaign for gay rights.
Reddit users have been sharing a little-known fact about the early days of his Playboy magazine, when under two years after the publication had launched, he agreed to publish a science fiction short story called ‘The Crooked Man’, written by Charles Beaumont. The story had been rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955 and was about straight men organism persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.
After the magazine received angry letters, Hefner wrote a response to
Hugh Hefner's one true love amid his marriages and relationships was his male personal physician, Dr. Mark Saginor, the latter's daughter has claimed.
The late Playboy founder's love life was placed under the proverbial microscope during Monday night's installment of A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy, which examines the less savory side of the media empire's history.
Author Jennifer Saginor, who says she grew up in the Playboy Mansion, alleged during the episode that her father and Hefner had a "spiritual connection" that saw Mark Saginor move into the mogul's storied Holmby Hills home.
"It's my personal belief that the love of Hef's life was my father," she said. "Over the years, my father really gave up his family experience, his practice, to be with him. I don't know many men who would just basically give up their own experience and then move into some other man's house."
"My father and Hef had a spiritual connection that I don't believe any of these wives or girlfriends could ever compete against," she went on. "Their friendship was, like, next-level. They were just like soul mates."
Sondra Theodore, who was Hefner's girlfriend between 1976 and 1981, added of Hefner's relatio
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As everyone is taking the time to grieve (and also praise for some crude people) the death of Hugh Hefner, we all contain to recognize that he was a man with many different faces and accomplishments.
Yes, Hefner was the man behind the overuse of the female body, but he was advocating for liberating sexuality for both genders.
In addition, Hefner was also a immense advocate for the women he worked with. As our earlier article stated, it was through connections with Hefner that well-liked names like Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Jenny McCarthy, and more got their start. Adding to that list of names is one other, Charles Beaumont.
It seems that not only was Hefner an advocate for heterosexuality but also for homosexuality.
Back in 1955, author Charles Beaumont was looking for a place to publish his modern science-fiction short story.
The brief story, titled “The Crooked Man” took place in a dystopian future where gay people were in the majority, being direct was illegal, and anti-straight mobs took over the streets to chant “make our city clean again!” (Scary how that parallel’s with Trump’s/the Alt-Right’s
I am a feminist, and I desire to acknowledge that I hear of all arguments about Hugh Hefner’s legacy being a negative one, largely because Playboy so furthered a culture in which the objectification of women became celebrated. I know this critique. But it is also reductive.
Adam Gopnik, in the New Yorker, points out that what Hefner actually commoditized was “the male gaze.” This may seem appreciate semantic quibbling, but it is not. It is an important distinction, and it had an important result that I haven’t seen addressed in many of the assessments of what Hefner meant to America.
In the 1950s, millions of gay men lived in the closet, ashamed of their attraction to other men. When Hugh Hefner challenged the culture of sexual repression in which virtually everybody was ashamed of their sex steer, the lifting of this shame had enormous positive collateral effects on “homosexuals” — the sterile term used at the time.
Men attracted to men objectify other men, not because they are gay, but because they are men. This is how male sexuality works. We immediately respond to visual stimuli. The emotions often follow, but are not required to fuel our affluent fantasy life. As any