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...them over the years. But he knew the drill: that staring at women for an erotic rush demeans and dehumanizes them, robs them of the equality they deserve. On the Dick Cavett Show in the 70s, feminist Susan Brownmiller told Hefner his magazine exploited sex. To which he replied, ?Playboy exploits sex like Sports Illustrated exploits sports!? (Yep: It?s Sex Illustrated...
...defend Playboy against charges of objectifying women. In fact, the airbrushed perfection of some Playmates struck me as robotoid, threw cold water on my desires even when every voyeuristic impulse was begging to be satisfied. And putting cotton tails and bunny ears on Playboy Club hostesses made them no more alluring than Bugs Bunny in drag. But just as surely, the feminists? very sensible argument flies in the face of biology and culture. ?Men look at women,? John Berger famously wrote. ?Women watch themselves being looked at.? I believe he also said that the camera is a man looking...
...Those wishing to savor the visual delights of Hefner?s world should thumb through ?Playboy 50 Years: the Photographs,? with text by Joe Peterson.There the amateur sociologist will be able to gauge seismic shifts in both sexual tolerance and body fashion...
...Hefner has tirelessly proclaimed, Playboy helped spur the sexual revolution with a wink and a nudge. But by the 70s the magazine was not pushing but being dragged. It had introduced pubic hair in the August 1969 issue, with a stroboscopic sequence of actress-dancer Paula Kelly. (Because she was African-American, the breakthrough had a tinge of National Geographic ethnographic exoticism.) The Playmates went decorously full-frontal in 1972, when Hefner felt the competition of the raunchier Penthouse. By then Playboy was a successful franchise with news dealers and big advertisers to consider, and Hefner seemed unsure...
...magazine never did stoop to Penthouse?s or Hustler?s gynecological avidity. Instead, it applied its techniques of photo enhancement and Vidal Sassoon-style grooming to the pubis. Air-brushed? Say Impressionist. Those unsung Playboy retouchers were Monets of the mons veneris...