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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHugh 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 Americas 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/
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)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.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)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)How much of Hef's contribution was positive and how much was negative is still open to debate.
Just sayin', Just sayin'!
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)I agree with him on this issue.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)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)Trying to suffer to attain grace
Just ask Luther, Calvin, St Benedict, or Paul of Tarsus
Initech
(100,097 posts)Hef is right - if we elect a Romney, Paul, Santorum, - we might as well elect the Taliban.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...And like the sign says "I can't believe we still have to protest this shit"....
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Go Hef!