Hugh Heffner

Even the Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner, experienced a similar situation of adultery. In 1949, Hugh Hefner married Mildred Williams, a student he met at Northwestern. Before their nuptials, Mildred revealed that while Hefner was serving in the Armed Forces during World War II, she had cheated on him ("Hugh Hefner: Girlfriends, Wives and Centerfolds”). Though they decided to marry anyway, Hefner stated that it was “the most devastating moment of [his] life” (Sparks) In his E! True Hollywood story, Hefner disclosed that his wife let him sleep with other women during the duration marriage due to the guilt that she had. They divorced in 1959. The years following their divorce show Hefner with a tremendous amount of success with his magazine, Playboy. Hefner became an icon to men everywhere due to the content of the magazine and the trials and tribulations Hefner had with his many girlfriends were public knowledge due to tabloids and later, a reality show ("Hugh Hefner Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story -

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If a trend is not popular, the media will not expose it. Raunch culture was a popular trend, and women of all ages followed it. If one was to see a fifty year old lady wearing revealing jeans it would be considered uncouth. Likewise, the media implied that dressing raunchy was acceptable. Levy describes, "I'd walk down the street and see teens and young women- and the occasional wild fifty year old wearing jeans cut so low they exposed what came to be known as butt cleavage" (143). Although raunch culture was a solid trend, Levy disagrees with the media and feels that women should uphold a certain standard. In the essay, she claims "I'd graduated from Wesleyan University, a place where you could pretty much get expelled for saying "girl" instead of women" (144). Levy emphasizes the importance of a woman and that women should carry themselves with high standards. According to Levy, the raunch trend was exploiting women’s sexuality. On the contrary, some women may have questioned raunch culture the way Levy did. However, the media would simply state that it is feminism and it was acceptable to be raunchy. In Levy’s essay it claims, "This new raunch culture didn't mark the death of feminism, they told me it was evidence that the feminist project had already been achieved. We've earned the right to look at playboy; we were empowered enough to get Brazilian bikini waxes" (144). The media was able to manipulate the

Featherstone looks down on publications that emphasize most of their print on Fashion, relationships and celebrities and advocates for magazines that stimulate intellectual growth, promote a healthy body image and include diversity. As an active journalist, columnist and activist, Liza Featherstone makes a good point in her article all while using most abundantly three rhetorical tools: logos, ethos and pathos that she wove into a studied text organization and a simple writing style. It is through ethos that Featherstone does a great job at defending her viewpoint, because her argument lacks a lot

In “Weiner”, we observe the controversial former Congressman, Anthony Weiner, being followed (almost) everywhere by the pair of documentarians Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, during his bumpy campaign for Mayor of New York City in 2013.

Naked women have been in the front of feminist's minds for several decades. Especially when they are pictured in soft-pornography magazine Playboy. Feminists for years have been yelling that Playboy is harmful to both men and women. Males around the country have countered that there is nothing wrong with their Playboy, it is merely a harmless vice. The problem I see with Playboy is not that it demeans women or subjugates them, and its not that it leads to violence. The main problem is that it fosters unrealistic images and expectation in men's minds about women. But since there is little we can do about it now, we merely need to take that first step and recognize Playboy for what it

In Gloria Steinem’s, “Sex, Lies, and Stereotyping” she was known as the leader in changing the way women were viewed and wanted them to have a right in America. She also had provided a forum for women’s voice for more than forty years. In Steinem article she explain that it has not been easy to keep the forum going. In Steinem’s publication she included the revolution that occurred in 1992. It was a personal exploration of the power of self-esteem moving beyond words, outrageous act and everyday rebellion. Many people do not give the sameness of women’s magazines resulting from the demands made by makers of women’s products that advertise in all of them. It’s the advertiser who are determining what women are getting now.

Looking back to pin up dolls and fascination of Farah Faucet, Raquel Welch, and Marylyn Monroe days you had an image of what was perceived as a classic beauty. Today’s culture is only changing and progressing at a rapid rate of what is considered to be acceptable. I do feel society as a culture has become more open to people choices of style, lifestyle and mannerisms that tracking back to the 1900s would not even tolerate us. In recent news we have an article of Kim Kardashian on PAPER Magazine that has been receiving more attention then say for example; real government issues that are actually having an effect on the world we live in today. I came cross an article from another figure in the public eye of media. Relations to the expectation women are held to from what is presented in acceptable pieces of publication today. Tine Fey who is a known writer and actress, hosting red carpet events and shows to being a star of the show, 30 Rock and known comedies for the public eye to

Perhaps the first and most glaring appeal to People and any other pop culture “bible,” so to speak, would be the well-known and promiscuously-dressed celebrity on the front- typically a woman. Contrary to initial expectation, this tactic doesn’t lure men into the trap; it lures women. Whether they feel inferior or simply interested in the woman’s beauty, we don’t know, but the reader still becomes prey to the publisher. Similarly, we select celebrities to be the spokesperson of our media because it insinuates that their project or objective contains more substance than others since there is a celebrity working with the magazine. Even seeing a professional football player such as Tom Brady or Cam Newton on the cover of Men’s Health would lead men to believe that the only way to be as healthy as Brady ot Newton would be to read the

     The idea that Howard Stern could come close--but not too close--to naked women on his television show, might have created the impression that this was just an act after all. He would say things that any other husband could not get away with, and it was okay, because it

The New York Times reported that for decades Harvey Weinstein has acted in a predatory manner towards women. One of the ways he did this was by asking actresses and female staff up to his hotel room for meetings. In those meetings, he would get naked or partially naked. He would also ask for massages, or if the women could watch him shower. There are also reports that he masturbated in front of a female reporter at a restaurant. Many female staff reported feeling incredibly uncomfortable around him, and actually started working out systems so that they wouldn’t have to be in a hotel room with him alone. He has paid off numerous women who have brought

He also appeared as a frequent guest on popular television programs such as The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show and Rowan and Martin´s Laugh-In. A lot of newspaper articles and interviews explored his social vies and supplied salacious details of his outlandish love life. Some of them included the shifting bevy of girlfriends he had, the rotating round bed where he worked, and the glass-walled, bathing suits optional swimming pool with a bar built alongside. However Hefner also emerged as a serious shaper of modern American values. In 1967 he appeared on an NBC prime-time special exploring America´s increasing culture of freedom and wealth. He sat in the library of the Playboy Mansion alongside with the noted Harvard theologian Harvey Cox and William F. Buckley, the prominent conservative editor of the National Review. Hefner discussed Americans growing interest in what the show called “the pursuit of pleasure.” While puffing on his pipe and speaking with smooth self-confidence, he argued that an older, religious basis for morality had faded and values needed to be reformulated on a more rational basis to promote the happiness of individuals. He insisted that the genuine enjoyment of life in modern America demanded a liberated sexuality and

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff was so gut-wrenching to read! I remember the name David Sheff from seeing him talk about it on Oprah. the strength that both Nic and David carry through the story is unbelievable I enjoyed how open and vulnerable David allowed himself to be through his writing, the pain he suffered of dealing with his son going through an addiction being the best father he could be to help his son made shed a few tears just by reading both of their struggles. I personally believe that if your a parent perhaps you can fully relate and understand the horror in seeing a child of your own with whom you love with all your heart, have an addiction is a nightmare the consuming nature of distress, and how addiction reaches every corner

Fluff magazines like Cosmopolitan and Men\'s Health are always trying to tell you how to live your life. They tell you how to work out, what to eat, and even how to be happy. Worst of all, they like to tell you how to have sex – and they\'re pretty bad at it! The sex tips in these magazines have earned scorn and derision around the world. But sometimes they\'re so bad that you just have to laugh at them. We\'ve collected some of the funniest and worst tips in this infographic to give you an idea of what a magazine\'s idea of “creative bedroom relations” is. Definitely don\'t try these at home! Some of them are unsafe, some of them are messy, and some are just straight up lame. There\'s no graphic imagery in this infographic, so it should be

Playboy became a huge empire and expanded to include clubs, resorts, music, films, television shows and wide selection of merchandise. Like Coca-Cola or Mickey Mouse, the magazines ubiquitous bunny logo became an international symbol of American life. Such as in 1969, during the Vietnam