2. The key fact about Playboy was that it was a consumer magazine. Sex was one of the consumer items on sale but there were many others.
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13. It's not just Hefner wanted to make money (duh!) but that he believed (correctly!) Playboy lifestyle would bolster capitalist system
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14. Industrial capitalism merely colonized the physical world. Hefner was one of the pioneers of colonizing the dream life of humanity.
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15. More thoughts on Hefner, Ehrenreich, and Playboy's place in history:https://newrepublic.com/article/145097/hugh-hefners-incomplete-sexual-revolution …
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How wonderful to see a reference to Ehrenreich. Many thanks
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There's certain nietzschean ubermensch quality to liberals like Hefner; that Christian morals (both sexual and solidaristic) stifle progress
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she also saw beats as part of the same male focused anti-commitment blowback
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