re: Hefner Was A Creepy Old Pornographer. So Why Are Leftists Celebrating Him?

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I think playboy started as a lifestyle brand celebrating urbanity and bachelorhood, which was a novel idea when he launched.

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Here is an article that discusses the Playboy Philosophy they heyday of which was between 1962 and 1965 when Hef wrote his manifesto.

The philosophy was an ongoing rant calling for free speech, the separation of church and state, and the need for modern “heroes.” Hef lamented the denigration of the “Uncommon Man” during the lean years of the 1930s when aspirations were ground down by economic depression. This, he felt, had boosted mediocrity. Typifying the postwar economic boom and Cold War ideology, Hef celebrated the merits of free-enterprise capitalism, individualism, and free expression as forces that would nurture the heroic “Uncommon Man.” And along the way Hef would meander into topics such as the “forgotten” legacy of Charlie Chaplin and the unfair treatment of Picasso. Then after much philosophical heavy lifting, he occasionally got around to talking about sex.

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