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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      3. Playboy was launched in 1953, as the great post-war boom, fuelled by military Keynesianism & suburbanization, was really taking off.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      4. Tied to the boom was the demographic reality: marriage rate peaked in USA in 1945 but remained very high:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/144-years-of-marriage-and-divorce-in-the-united-states-in-one-chart/?utm_term=.95a2e86a3922 …

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      5. Hefner married his first wife Milred Williams in 1949, when he was 22. They were part of cohort that married very young

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      6. To all these newly married men in suburbs, Playboy sold an aspirational fantasy: think of how much fun you could have if you were single

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      7. There were plenty of girlie magazines around before Playboy. Hefner's innovation was to tie soft-core porn to upscale consumer lifestyle

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      8. Barbara Ehrenreich's "Hearts of Men" is the best account we have of Playboy as male consumerist utopian project.pic.twitter.com/F8YbZeV3eF

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      9. Playboy's circulation peaked in mid-1970s, just as Golden Age Capitalism hit its apogee & began its long decline.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      10. Post Affluent Society, Playboy persists but it's no longer aspirational (who can afford lifestyle?). Rather it is nostalgic.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

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      11. This is a crucial point: the fantasy is not just enjoying the Playboy lifestyle but being envied for doing so: https://twitter.com/trash__fire/status/913791334405824512 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

      12. One of the reasons to revisit Ehrenreich's great 1983 book is she makes clear that Hefner's project was a consciously capitalist onepic.twitter.com/nrUkYDnwai

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Sep 2017

          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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        1. HereWeGo‏ @etretatbeach 29 Sep 2017
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          How wonderful to see a reference to Ehrenreich. Many thanks

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        1. Christo Aivalis  🌹 🍊‏Verified account @christoaivalis 29 Sep 2017
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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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        1. lemmy caution‏ @lemmy_caution2 29 Sep 2017
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          she also saw beats as part of the same male focused anti-commitment blowback

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