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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 11:28 AM Apr 2012

Hugh Hefner: ‘Repressed conservatives’ waging ‘war against sex’

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is calling out “repressed conservatives” like Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh by name for waging a “war against sex.”

In an editorial published in the May edition of Playboy magazine, Hefner charges that “a new generation of repressed conservatives are pounding on America’s bedroom door, their knock the beating of a war drum that sounds their intentions to again regulate our sex lives.”

“Rick Santorum promised to defund birth control on the ground that contraception is ‘a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,’” Hefner writes, according to a copy of the editorial provided to Raw Story by Playboy.

“Ron Paul was no better, believing that the birth control pill did not cause immorality but immorality creates the problem of wanting to use the pill,” he continues. “Mitt Romney vowed to see a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and to overturn Roe v. Wade. He later promised to eliminate Planned Parenthood.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/24/hugh-hefner-repressed-conservatives-waging-war-on-sex/

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Hugh Hefner: ‘Repressed conservatives’ waging ‘war against sex’ (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2012 OP
Hef is right. hifiguy Apr 2012 #1
K/R Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #2
They want to take away our sex? randome Apr 2012 #3
Hefner and Playboy mag were a major force in the early sexual revolution. LongTomH Apr 2012 #4
K&R tallahasseedem Apr 2012 #5
I just don't get why sex is considered such a foul thing by some aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2012 #6
Because it's fun, and a lot of religion is about suffering Taverner Apr 2012 #9
Those who can't get laid take it out on those who can. Initech Apr 2012 #7
Ol Hef, buddy, I do believe you are right Taverner Apr 2012 #8
He's right. HappyMe Apr 2012 #10
Hef is bang on... truebrit71 Apr 2012 #11
He's right. Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #12
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
1. Hef is right.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 11:44 AM
Apr 2012

When I was in my teens I learned much about civil liberties from reading editorials in Playboy. Hefner provided a lot of the basis for the absolutist civil libertarianism that I still adhere to today.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. They want to take away our sex?
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:20 PM
Apr 2012

How would that work?

Hef's right, I just wish he wouldn't use the 'war' word. In the political realm, I think we need concentrate on only one war right now -the war against women.

Which, in many ways, IS a war against sex so...never mind.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
4. Hefner and Playboy mag were a major force in the early sexual revolution.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:30 PM
Apr 2012

How much of Hef's contribution was positive and how much was negative is still open to debate.

Just sayin', Just sayin'!

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
6. I just don't get why sex is considered such a foul thing by some
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 02:10 PM
Apr 2012

As long as it involves no coercion, all parties involved are capable of consent, and no violence or serious harm is involved, I see it as a very loving and pleasurable thing between people, no matter the combination of gender, no matter what type of act is involved. If people made love instead of war the world would be a better place. But perhaps for Republicans, the more sex is considered taboo, forbidden, and filthy, the greater the pleasure they find in secretly breaking the taboo, wearing diapers or taking wide stances for example.

 

Taverner

(55,476 posts)
9. Because it's fun, and a lot of religion is about suffering
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 02:45 PM
Apr 2012

Trying to suffer to attain grace

Just ask Luther, Calvin, St Benedict, or Paul of Tarsus

Initech

(100,097 posts)
7. Those who can't get laid take it out on those who can.
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 02:41 PM
Apr 2012

Hef is right - if we elect a Romney, Paul, Santorum, - we might as well elect the Taliban.

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