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Originally posted by Rightwire:
It's amazing he made it to 91. Given the life style he led, with the caliber of women that he did, most men would have been dead in weeks

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Originally posted by sigmoid:
(Disclosure: My family was ripped apart @ age 13 due to my father being addicted to pornography and divorcing my mom after 25 years. So much for harmless.)

I know, let the flaming begin.

And then there is this:
By Penny Young Nance

..l.l 

Porn is everywhere and easily accessible which is different from the days when boys hid coveted copies of Hefner’s magazine under their beds. An astounding 90 percent of boys and 60 percent of girls have been exposed in some way to pornography before they turn 18. Over half of men look at porn frequently and, sadly, 50 percent of religious men say they are addicted to pornography. 
In 2013 traffic to porn sites received more traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined.  According to WebRoot, porn increased marital infidelity by 300 percent, and a study published in Science magazine showed a direct correlation between consuming porn in marriage and a higher divorce rate. Hefner said he never cheated while married, but he confessed that “I had a lot of girlfriends, but it's not the same as cheating.” And the breakdown of the American family continues. 

 

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by sigmoid:
(Disclosure: My family was ripped apart @ age 13 due to my father being addicted to pornography and divorcing my mom after 25 years. So much for harmless.)

I know, let the flaming begin.

And then there is this:
By Penny Young Nance

..l.l 

Porn is everywhere and easily accessible which is different from the days when boys hid coveted copies of Hefner’s magazine under their beds. An astounding 90 percent of boys and 60 percent of girls have been exposed in some way to pornography before they turn 18. Over half of men look at porn frequently and, sadly, 50 percent of religious men say they are addicted to pornography. 
In 2013 traffic to porn sites received more traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined.  According to WebRoot, porn increased marital infidelity by 300 percent, and a study published in Science magazine showed a direct correlation between consuming porn in marriage and a higher divorce rate. Hefner said he never cheated while married, but he confessed that “I had a lot of girlfriends, but it's not the same as cheating.” And the breakdown of the American family continues. 

 

Whatever the merits of her thoughts may be, this is the kind of abuse of statistics seen more often than proper use of statistics, 163% more actually, and brings the whole methodology into suspicion and disrepute.

First of all, what exactly is included in "pornography?" To some, a woman in a bikini might be pornographic. To others, anything less than several adults of different gender and a few barnyard animals in the photo might be a stretch. Like Justice Potter Stewart's observation in a case long ago, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184

It seems likely that one's view (sorry) of porn tracks with one's religious ferver. "50 percent of religious men say they are addicted to pornography." What is "addicted?"

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Originally posted by sigmoid:
(Disclosure: My family was ripped apart @ age 13 due to my father being addicted to pornography and divorcing my mom after 25 years. So much for harmless.)

I know, let the flaming begin.

And then there is this:
By Penny Young Nance

Yes, Hugh Hefner was a pioneer -- in the objectification of women and the lie of the Playboy lifestyle

While many in the press are hailing Hugh Hefner as a pioneer in his day — championing abortion rights and breaking the shackles of an oppressive sexual culture — the man represented a lifestyle and business that was in no way, shape, or form helpful to women.  

It is no surprise celebrities are tripping over themselves to praise the man who gave them a platform to become famous for stripping down to nothing. He will be buried next to Marilyn Monroe, the woman whose nude photograph he published in his first issue of Playboy. 

Hefner indeed was a pioneer. He was the force behind the mainstream objectification of women, someone who paid them to take their clothes off and convinced them it was empowering to do so, using the same arguments pornographers use for the same goals. 

The harmful effects of pornography are no longer secret. Pornography is violent and has been proven to lead to aggression against women — no surprise since the vast majority of the victims of violence in pornography are women. 

Porn is everywhere and easily accessible which is different from the days when boys hid coveted copies of Hefner’s magazine under their beds. An astounding 90 percent of boys and 60 percent of girls have been exposed in some way to pornography before they turn 18. Over half of men look at porn frequently and, sadly, 50 percent of religious men say they are addicted to pornography. 
In 2013 traffic to porn sites received more traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined.  According to WebRoot, porn increased marital infidelity by 300 percent, and a study published in Science magazine showed a direct correlation between consuming porn in marriage and a higher divorce rate. Hefner said he never cheated while married, but he confessed that “I had a lot of girlfriends, but it's not the same as cheating.” And the breakdown of the American family continues. 

Holly Madison, who lived in the Playboy Mansion, starred in a television show about her time there and was Hefner’s #1 girlfriend for a time, reveals she contemplated suicide while she lived with Hefner and his girlfriends. The glamourous life was a total lie.  
Holly was only one of the many women who bought into Hefner’s lies and suffered the consequences of being bought and paid for.  

While I never met Hefner myself, it is beyond my ability to comprehend how Hollywood views a man who walked around in pajamas all day, paid women for sex, brought the objectification of women into the mainstream culture, and became wealthy by creating a magazine for lonely men as some kind of a hero. 
Girls, please. We deserve better than this. 

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse." -- H. L. Mencken