Playboy Bunnies and Other Sex Trade Workers

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Disclaimer: I am not saying that men should get away with raping Playboy bunnies, Playboy Playmates, porn starts, strippers, and other sex trade workers.

Okay I am missing something here with this Cosby business. Isn't/wasn't the purpose of the whole Playboy empires (strip clubs and lap dancing parlours too) to promote sexuality.

Do these chicks not realize that by parading around like that they are sending out the message to men that they are sexually available?

I mean cavorting about in swimming pools in skimpy attiare and at times topless with ole goat dawgasauruses, often married, and dressing up like a bunny rabbit with their boobs hanging out, of course men are going to assume they are slutty and hit on them.



Seems totally hypocritical to pull the "babe in the woods, poor me routine" when they get hit on. doesn't it?

If they want to be treated with respect, they need to carry themselves with respect and dignity.

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So the head dawgasaurus himself has now come out and defended Cosby.

The White Knight: Playboy Patriarch Hugh Hefner Defends “Good Friend” Bill Cosby Against Rape Allegations - See more at: http://bossip.com/1075238/the-white-....KOYiebfC.dpuf


Hugh Hefner responded to the recent sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, including one that allegedly occurred at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.

"Bill Cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening," the Playboy mogul wrote in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. "I would never tolerate this kind of behavior, regardless of who was involved."
Hefner's comments came in response to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleging that Cosby molested a woman named Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15 years old. The LAPD has opened an investigation in light of Huth's allegations.
Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, has called Huth's claims "absolutely false," "unreliable" and "untimely." Cosby's team also filed court documents claiming extortion from Huth, according to documents obtained by ABC News. According to the documents, Huth's lawyer demanded $100,000 for her silence, and later increased the amount to $250,000 as additional women came forward with similar accusations.
P.J. Masten, a former Playboy bunny, has also recently come forward with sexual assault accusations against Cosby. Speaking with CNN on Friday, Masten claimed that the comedian drugged and raped her in a Chicago hotel in 1972. She said that her assault wasn't an isolated incident.
"[There are] 12 former bunnies that I know of that are ashamed to come forward, frightened to come forward, married with families [and] don't want to come forward. But they were also drugged and raped by Bill Cosby," Masten said.
Cosby has been accused by more than 15 women of sexual assault allegations. He has never been charged with a crime.

The saying with friends like this who needs enemies comes to mind.



Does Hef think he really has ANY credibility when it comes to defending perverts. He is truly delusional...must have overdoes on Viagra.

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What I would like to know is with men propositioning them left right and centre, why is it only im name dem call.

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There were so many surreal scenes in the pilot of NBC’s The Playboy Club that it is difficult to pick out the most eye-popping. Was it the “bunnies” spontaneously breaking into song, or the house mother earnestly lecturing the women to be the “very best bunny they can be,” or maybe the moment when the only black bunny (indeed the only black person in the whole show) tells her bunny comrades that her life’s dream is to be the first-ever “chocolate” Playboy centerfold?No, I think the winner is the scene near the end where a kindly, pajama-clad Hefner ruminates about being a rebel out to change America for the better.
This is the image of “Hef” peddled to the media. He is packaged as a pioneer who courageously heralded the sexual revolution with his norm-busting magazine that helped free puritanical America of its sexual hang-ups.
The actual story of Hefner’s success is less sanguine, since Playboy’s initial popularity was based on its embrace of 1940s and ’50s sexist ideas. One of the bestselling books of this era was Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers, which accused women of rampant materialism and selfishness. Calling women dumb, greedy, rapacious and “an idle class,” Wylie developed the concept of “momism,” which held that American wives and mothers had gained too much power over their husbands and it was about time men fought back.
Picking up on these themes, the main article in the first issue of Playboy was called “Miss Gold-Digger of 1953.” Bemoaning the good old days when alimony was reserved for “little floozies,” the Playboy editors wrote, “When a modern day marriage ends, it doesn’t matter who’s to blame–it’s always the guy who pays and pays and pays.” This was a theme that was expressed again and again in the early years of Playboy by writers such as Burt Zollo and, of course, Philip Wylie.
As the women’s movement began to gain traction, Playboy editors realized that they needed to reinvent themselves as supporters of women’s rights, or risk being seen as a relic of a bygone era. They got off to a bumpy start when a memo by Hefner was leaked by a female secretary in 1970 that read, “What I’m interested in is the highly irrational, emotional, kookie [sic] trend that feminism has taken…these chicks are our natural enemy. It is time to do battle with them.” But over the years, Hefner has, with the help of the mainstream media, carefully crafted an image of himself as a champion of women’s sexual and economic freedom.
In place of a pornographer who got rich on objectifying women, he is cast as a sweet old man who just happens to have a penchant for women young enough to be his granddaughters. Nowhere is this clearer than in the wildly successful Girls Next Door, a program that was aired on E! Entertainment–a division of NBC–from 2005 to 2010. For six seasons, E! Entertainment offered viewers a sanitized version of what really goes on in the Playboy mansion by ignoring the subtle and not-so-subtle power differential between the fabulously wealthy Hefner and the mainly working-class young women who have little education and few job prospects.
Izabella St. James, an ex-“girlfriend” of Hefner’s, gave us some insight into what actually went on when she disclosed in her book, Bunny Tales: Many of the young women didn’t want to have sex with Hefner, but it was “part of the unspoken rules. It was almost as if we had to do it in return for all the things we had.”
It is amazing that in 2011 NBC would carry a show that glamorizes a time when women were discriminated against in virtually every area of life. For women, there is nothing nostalgic about sexism. As feminists continue to fight for equality, men like Hugh Hefner who continue to exploit women should not be held up as “visionary.” This is an insult to women everywhere.

Give me a flippin break..the women signed up for these jobs...lined up in DROVES in many instances....no one forced them to walk around dressed like bunny rabbits with dem titty anging out like any milking cow.



No one forced them to "EDIT it out" and pose for pictures.

Fippin' ridiculous that they are crying sexual harassment. What did they expect?

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Blu I am glad you are back. I would love to get your take on this issue.

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Hugh Hefner: Dirty old man or radical feminist?

There's a famous shirt reading This is What a Feminist Looks Like, worn by cheeky feminists, ironic activists and - just once on the cover of Ms. magazine - President Barack Obama. The point, of course, is that feminists come in all shapes and sizes, in both genders and across all age groups, and sometimes where you least expect it.It's a lovely thought, and I'd like to believe it. But if I had to choose one image of what a feminist doesn't look like, it would be this: An old rich white man, in a cheesy signature silk robe better suited to soft-core porn, surrounded by a rotating harem of young blondes, preferably dressed as bunnies.
But I might be wrong, says Carrie Pitzulo, author of Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy. She says there's more to Hugh Hefner - the Chicago hedonist who created Playboy in 1953 and morphed it from a magazine to a lifestyle to a brand - than the swift dismissals offered by most feminists (rumour is Gloria Steinem told him, "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual").
Digging though archives of memos, correspondence and readers' letters, Pitzulo asks some unlikely questions: Is it possible to reinterpret Hefner as the creator of sex positivism? As a liberator of women from a rigid Madonna-whore dichotomy? An usher of all genders into a modern age of individual freedoms? Or, as I suspect, is a "revisionist interpretation" a whole lot of wishful thinking?
In search of answers, Pitzulo begins with what we're all thinking: the centrefolds. While objectification comes straight to mind, Hefner believes playmates are "glorified" as a "friend and equal." And, to his credit, they're far from wanton libertines or nameless nudes: Through interviews, the playmates are often presented as educated, assertive, hard-working and individualist (also presented, however, are their measurements).
Hefner doesn't see any of this as degrading, of course, nor does he think anything less of girls who pose nude (in fact, Hefner even persuades Playboy's receptionist to strip, what's now known as "sexual harassment"). Perhaps most important, and without even trying, "Playboy insisted women had desire, indeed a right to desire, just as society assumed men did."
And to go with the pictures, articles such as Don't Hate Yourself in the Morning walk a fine line between deeply offensive and refreshingly liberating. As Playboy becomes increasingly journalistic in the mid-sixties (giving the old excuse "I only read it for the articles" new merit), the magazine explored liberal positions on civil rights, Vietnam, free speech and a "surprising degree of fair and sympathetic gender politics." Among hard-hitting articles about all this political upheaval - many times I wondered if Hefner had just found himself in the right place at the right time - are pieces for men about fashion, cooking and home decor. Though Hefner was famously fixated on male roles and "womanization," there's no denying he was a modern metrosexual long before this generation made it cool.
Though always at its strongest when serving his own bed-hopping agenda, Hefner's public support of feminist causes - birth control, equality, abortion rights - is as impressive as it is surprising. As is Hef's ideology of gender as a social construct and sexuality as a wide spectrum. Unfortunately, Bachelors and Bunnies is more academic than biographical, a possible mismatch in tone and topic, so we don't get many of the dirty details, which, when it comes to Hefner, is possibly the best part. Also largely missing is any meaningful comparison to Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan magazine's editor-in-chief, Sex and the Single Girl author and Hefner's natural editorial foil (they're buds, actually). A story like Playboy's, as much as it demands intense cultural critique, could benefit from a well-placed wink.
But that's just my own brand of feminism, which is another broad's offensive comment (wink!). Feminism, much like a magazine, is a revolving door of ideas - often complicated and contradictory - that must evolve to survive. These days, Playboy is trying desperately to compete with a porn industry that leapfrogged over Hefner's quaint centrefolds. But don't think Hefner is giving up: The Girls Next Door, the E! Network reality show of Hef's life with three girlfriends, remains top-rated and much-loved - particularly with female viewers.

My vote is for head dawgasarous and dirty ole goat.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/bachelors-and-bunnies-the-sexual-politics-of-playboy-by-carrie-pitzulo/article4261715/