Comments on: The World Needs More Hugh Hefners

By: Lyn

Lyn — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:27:23 +0000

I don’t entertain for one minute Hugh doesn’t rely on Viagra to help with performance issues. And I’m certain the girls who he wows (or doesn’t whatever the case may be) in bed wouldn’t be there unless they were gaining something from it (and probably not a ‘big O’). It might be a facade. There’s only one way to find out for sure and I think I’ll pass

By: Wendy Steiner

Wendy Steiner — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:00:52 +0000

Leave it to you, Lyn to see the two sides of an issue/person. I don’t like anything about him. He’s had so much plastic surgery which belies the fact he’s not happy with his age and he’s been having a mid-life crisis since I think he was born. I think a healthy sexuality and sensuality should never die with one’s age, but do you really think he’s having sex or just putting on that facade? Goddess forbid, he ever be with a woman who wasn’t a Barbie doll…You get my point ; ) But I love how you look objectively at a person and their issues!

By: Charla W.

Charla W. — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:09:47 +0000

Lyn and K, you both say things I agree with – Lyn on how it is good that Hefner has not let anyone dictate to him how he should live his life, including his old age, and K, for the realistic view of how “grubby”, as I think a Brit might put it – sleazy, really, in my opinion – his lifestyle is, overall.

There is more, as one who has taught school and seen how youths have changed in their attitudes and behavior, including towards sex, in ways I could never have imagined, that I could say, but for the sake of brevity tonight I will just offer this: How many young, beautiful women do you think would have ever been at Hefner’s side and in his bed, much less two or more at a time, if he were not wealthy and well-known? Yes, he might have had a Barbi Benton as his girlfriend, as he did, decades ago, regardless. But the long line of flaxen lovelies since…and his truly gorgeous wife who actually seemed to have a perceptible depth, as well as some talent, personality, and character…call me a cynic if you will, but without the fame and fortune that he acquired for himself, I suspect that Hugh Hefner would have been an increasingly eccentric man holed away in an untidy house plastered with photographs of naked women, sitting around all day in his bathrobe, drinking martinis, chain-smoking, and watching old Rat Pack movies.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:10:25 +0000

You’ve made some good points, K.

In the series I liked Bridget the best as she seemed the least plastic to me. The whole living situation made my mind boggle and it sort of had that train wreck fascination. It’s not the lifestyle I’d want to live (plus I am now way too old for him and seriously non blond) and, OMG, I would hate for Tabitha to aspire to be a Playboy Bunny. I could never understand how Kendra’s mum could be so accepting of her really young daughter living in the mansion with a man 60 her senior (but then it could be that she wanted a piece of the action too!).

By: K Odell

K Odell — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:04:32 +0000

Oh, Hugh- I really don’t know how I feel about him. He’s married- they are seperated- yet he has girlfriends. Why have plural? Is one not enough? He cheated on his first wife because she let him since she felt guilty about an affair. He makes a living out of objectifying unrealistic women. He’s practically a one man add for eating disorders and fake boobs.
Yet, the points you make about his ability to make a name and money for himself, and that he’s still going after so many years are good points. and at least his women aren’t showing the world their insides like other magazines.

I was impressed with how Holly took over her own parts of the business. She’s a shrewd business woman even if she is selling herself.
Kendra, eh, I could do without.