I have a few copies of “Playboy” from the 1970s stashed away somewhere. One of them has a letter where a guy writes in saying, “I met this really gorgeous, sweet woman, and we were planning to get married, but she sat me down yesterday and told me that she had a sex change before she met me. Mr. Hefner, should I marry someone who used to be a man?” and the response was, “So she had a sex change, big whoop. Would you be asking this question if she’d made any other change in her life before she met you? You love the woman she is now, and that’s all that should matter. If you want kids you can adopt or something.”
I feel so conflicted right now
That awkward moment when Hugh Hefner is more trans-positive than most feminists of the same era.
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More trans-positive than many feminists in our era
Other things Hugh Hefner has expressed ‘positivity’ for:
Beastiality
Hugh Hefner himself is sexually “fascinated” by women being raped by animals both on and off the camera:
“Then Hefner said that while he liked Deep Throat, he was more interested by the movie I’d made with a dog (forced sex by her batterer husband described on pages 105-113).
“Oh, you saw that one?” Chuck (her batterer husband) said.
“Oh that was terrific,” Hefner said, “You know, we’ve tried that several times, tried to get a girl and a dog together, but it has never worked out.”
“Yeah, that can be very tricky,” Chuck said, “the chick’s got to know what she’s doing.”
“That’s something I’d like to see,” Hefner said, “I think I’ve seen every animal flick (sic) ever made but–” Then Chuck offers Linda as a “willing” participant. (Adams)
Linda Lovelace, Ordeal, specifically p. 194
Rape
Linda Marchiano (Lovelace) reported being pimped to Hefner by her abuser. Hefner sodomized her, tried to make her have intercourse with a dog.
Bill Cosby drug of choice was Quaaludes. Hugh Hefner, Cosby’s long-term chum and owner of property where Cosby raped at least 3 women, offered the drug to Holly Madison, remarking ‘ In the 70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Holly Madison’s account of being a playboy bunny references coerced and unwanted sex and finding a porn DVD labeled ‘girl and dog’. (x)
Pedophilia
Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy centerfold…was tricked and intimidated into photo sessions by Snider, who then sold the photos and access to Dorothy herself to Hefner. Ms. Stratten said she was sexually molested by Hefner.
Ms. Stratten was underage when she was initially pimped to Hefner.
After her death, Hefner was made aware that Ms. Stratten had hated the pornography made of her and had hated posing for it. He responded by issuing more videotapes of Ms. Stratten posing…
(Dworkin and MacKinnon)
Anti-Feminism
These chicks are our natural enemy…It is time we do battle with them…What I want is a devastating piece that takes the militant feminists apart. They are unalterably opposed to the romantic boy-girl society that Playboy promotes…Let’s go to it and make it a real winner.
(Hefner; cited by Stoltenberg, ellipses his; see also Steinem)
Go ahead and keeping saying Hugh Hefner is a feminist. I’ll just be here remembering his history of animal abuse, misogyny, rape and child sex abuse.
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