In , Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine, was an ordinary man living an ordinary life. He had everything a middle-class man was supposed to want, including a wife and children. But Hefner felt constrained by the conservative post-World War II culture that pressured men like him into traditional domestic life. His vision was not of a mere magazine, but of a total lifestyle for himself.
He fantasized about fun-filled days and sex-filled nights, freed from the obligations of marriage and fatherhood. His genius was in imagining that other men had the same dreams — even if he was the only one who would make that fantasy a reality. The first issue of Playboy, in December , featured nude Marilyn Monroe photographs, a cosmic stroke of luck for Hefner when he acquired them from the Baumgarth Company, who owned the rights to the prestardom Monroe photos.
The magazine flew off the stands. Subsequently, it grew in popularity so quickly that Hefner had to skip an issue in in order to expand his production capacity. He wanted to make discussions of sex and nude pictorials respectable to bring them out of the proverbial gutter and onto the coffee tables of middle-class Americans.
So he paired sexuality with the various other interests he imagined that a hip, urban man might desire — jazz music, highbrow fiction , fashion, decorating and cooking tips , and by the s, progressive politics and cutting-edge interviews. Of course, it was the sex that most people associate with Playboy, in particular the Playmate centerfolds.
Sorry, girl, but that has "booty call" written all over it! Trending Stories. He's always in a hurry. Once he gets what he wants, he's not sticking around for some cuddle time or pillow talk.
He's already out the door and onto his next conquest He throws money around like it's nothing. He's inconsistent. He sends you flowers constantly. Sure, flowers are a sweet gesture, but three bouquets in one week?
He's a little too confident in himself. And women, of course. You don't know much about him. He's all about getting to know you, but when it comes to him, he's a closed book. He's hiding something He's a really good dancer. He's extremely successful. His maid looks like this. Do you really think she just cleans his house?
However, the results of this study are often mischaracterized and what this research really says about the effects of porn is far from definitive. Let me first explain how the study worked so that you can better understand my critiques.
After viewing 16 porn or art photos, participants filled out a survey that asked how much attraction and love they felt for their spouses. In comparison, men reported lower feelings of love and attraction after viewing porn than after viewing art. Not so fast. First, the average attraction and love score were very high for both men and women, regardless of the type of images participants were exposed to.
Related to this point, no matter what type of image they viewed, men reported levels of love and attraction that were just as high if not higher than the women. Thus, even after watching porn, men still reported as much love for their partners as did women! Finally, and perhaps most important point of all, the love and attraction measurements were taken immediately after exposure to the images.
Would any alleged loss in attraction or love still be there in an hour? The magazine may have offended some who see it as sexist and demeaning to women, but the idea of Playboy dispensing with nudity would once have been unthinkable. But in March , that will happen. And so it's just passe at this juncture," Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders is quoted by the New York Times as saying. The redesigned Playboy will still feature "sexy, seductive pictorials of the world's most beautiful women," but full nudity will be banished.
It ends a cultural phenomenon that was a rite of passage for a generation of American men - an illicit thrill in adolescent bedrooms or garden sheds - and helped spark America's sexual revolution. From its beginnings editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner founded the magazine on full nudity.
Marilyn Monroe famously appeared on the magazine's first cover and centrefold. Hefner didn't hide the magazine's intentions. He also described the "pleasure-primer" he wanted to create. We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph, and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex," it said. The 50, copies - which were sold for 50 cents each - flew off the shelf.
Dian Hanson, author of a six-volume history of men's magazines and an editor for Taschen, says Hefner tapped into a new consumer attitude that emerged at the end of World War Two.
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