The Hef is dead

[iamyuu]

RIP Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hugh-hefner-founder-playboy-dead-031914304.html

Do share your stories about Hef or about the Playboy magazine.

During the height of Playboy's popularity, I was still a student with not much income, so could only ogle at the magazines on the stand. I was also a huge WWE (WWF then) fan, so the only Playboy magazine I ever bought was that with Torrie Wilson on the cover.

With the growth of the internet and my increasing infatuation with Japan, Playboy's popularity waned, but it cannot be denied that Hef & his creation are revolutionary icons.

 

[AMcguyver]

Oh no.

Playboy magazine was what got me into photography. Mainly the earlier stuff by photographers like Lou Freeman and David Mecey.
Lately, however, the quality of the imagery has gone way down. They don't seem to put as much effort into lighting/posing anymore.

 

[Frenchy]

I thought it would be nice to pay hommage here to the pioneer in unbridled playboy lifestyle...
what are your memories of the Playboy magazine (and clubs if you went there)?

Mod Edit: Merged both threads. Hef would have wanted it that way.

 

[Frenchy]

Ah, sorry , just created a new thread on same topic , hadn't noticed this one

 

[iamyuu]

Ah, sorry , just created a new thread on same topic , hadn't noticed this one

Sorry, @Frenchy .
Thank you for reminding us about the Playboy clubs. Always wondered what stuff went on inside these exclusive gentlemen clubs. The image I have is that the bunnies are just waitresses, and not serving you like kyabajos.

 

[TheScientist]

Was about to post a thread on this myself. Fond memories of Playboy as a youth enjoying the forbidden mystery of looking at naked ladies and more fond memories as I got a bit older and actually read the articles (as well as looking at the naked ladies).

Tonight when I'm out drinking with some folks, I'll raise a glass to Hefner's memory, not just for the naked ladies but for all he did for the US in terms of civil liberties, reproductive rights and more.

 

[meiji]

My dad had a subscription to Playboy and Penthouse for decades, so I had quite the education when I came across them early on. It's kind of fascinating that with all the curvy women in those two magazines, I far prefer 'spinner' types in my sex life.

 

[User#8628]

Wow, i was really surprised to see this. I had no idea until i saw the threads headline.

 

[User#8628]

My dad had a subscription to Playboy and Penthouse for decades, so I had quite the education when I came across them early on. It's kind of fascinating that with all the curvy women in those two magazines, I far prefer 'spinner' types in my sex life.

Probably because its more different and exotic than what were used to seeing.

 

[Frenchy]

Sorry, @Frenchy .
Thank you for reminding us about the Playboy clubs. Always wondered what stuff went on inside these exclusive gentlemen clubs. The image I have is that the bunnies are just waitresses, and not serving you like kyabajos.

I went to the one at Palms in Las Vegas but it was mainly a dancing club with an adjacent casino/lounge space . Good (it was for Halloween so great fun in fact) but not as original as what the initial Playboy Clubs must have been

 

[TheScientist]

Probably because its more different and exotic than what were used to seeing.

These days and for a few decades, its kinda nothing to see images of naked people in any media but for some of us its within living memory that seeing naked people was a pretty big deal.

 

[just4fun]

A Story, I had a FB when I was in my late teens (I was popular then) and she was pretty hot. Her older sister maybe 20 and even hotter was a regular of Hef's crowd and the FB told me that it used to be just drink and screw with Hef but then weed came along so it was smoke and screw. The older sister turned Hef on for the time she told me. Very possible true.

 

[meiji]

Probably because its more different and exotic than what were used to seeing.

Honestly I think it's more a freudian thing. My dad is an ass-man, so I'm one too. We've had this conversation, and we both prefer petite types.

 

[BB0523]

I was shocked when I heard the news... Took me down memory lane (err... Mammery lane?). My dad was a member of the original club in Chicago... We had all kinds of drink stirrers and I even had a liquid fuel lighter I stole from dad... Got busted by me mum at the age of 5 gazing at the magazine for the first time... My dad just laughed and me mum was furious...
Anyway.. Was always a class act and publication until he gave it to his daughter to run... Would have loved going to one of the parties at the mansion... Oh well... RIP HEF....

 

[jiraiyajiraiya]

It's like the end of an era, paper porn era.
Now everything is digital and you can find things quickly now but doesn't feel the same anymore.

 

[Frenchy]

It's like the end of an era, paper porn era.
Now everything is digital and you can find things quickly now but doesn't feel the same anymore.

Very true . The glamorous , edgy , slightly shameful-but-boys-will-be-boys feel of it has gone . And the non-sexual articles were great too!

 

[User#8628]

Well, nobody will say that Hugh Hefner is in a better place now.

 

[scorpioni6ths]

Well, nobody will say that Hugh Hefner is in a better place now.

we'll never know ... there might be bigger mansion *over there* ... and we won't ever get a chance to read a review of it ...

 

[meiji]

we'll never know ... there might be bigger mansion *over there* ... and we won't ever get a chance to read a review of it ...

Hef's version of hell is only meeting prudish older women with A-cup breasts.

 

[Chewie]

Hef's version of hell is only meeting prudish older women with A-cup breasts.

Who are not blond to boot.

Seriously, this guy has no sense of variety. The girls need to dye their hair if they want to join his personal harem.

 

[iamyuu]

Who are not blond to boot.

Seriously, this guy has no sense of variety. The girls need to dye their hair if they want to join his personal harem.

On the other hand, it is a great blessing to know exactly what you want without the need for changing/variety.

 

[SugoiBoy]

It is interesting how he, or at least his carefully cultivated public image, became so closely associated with the Playboy brand. Personally, as someone who grew up in the era of print porn, I can't think of anyone like that in the world of online porn.

When the founders of sites like Pornhub eventually die will anyone in the general public even notice?

 

[DocMcStuffins]

Hmm... Considering how Playboy was started, I'm not going to celebrate him -

http://www.revelist.com/celebrity/playboy-marilyn-monroe/9647/hefner-purchased-the-photos-for-500/4

 

[Thrthrthr]

Hmm... Considering how Playboy was started, I'm not going to celebrate him -

http://www.revelist.com/celebrity/playboy-marilyn-monroe/9647/hefner-purchased-the-photos-for-500/4

Selling the rights to the photos is quite literally consenting to any commercial usage of the photos up to and including publishing unless you license the photos under limitation clauses.

That's why you'd sell the rights in the first place. So that the photos can be used for business or advertisement purposes.

Unless you want to go down the route of calling Ms. Monroe too stupid to know what selling the rights to the photos actually meant. Which given the era; not an impossibility.

It honestly reads like an Onion article.

 

[PattiePew]

RIP hefner. i think that mag established a new benchmark in art/photography