A Facebook comment, slightly amended, on the recently deceased Hugh Hefner:
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John Brown [:] But wasn't Hef -- who worked so, so hard to make males "enjoy" fantasy sex -- was at heart a non-stop working ... puritan who worshiped incessant labor (on his soft porno mag/industry) as a way to avoid facing the void (i.e., eternal damnation)?
He, a modern-day "sexy" Calvin, was a mini-me Las Vegas, "individualized" to suit consumer "forbidden" tastes, (what every American aspires to?), maybe excluding a hamburger; to cite Baudelaire, he incessantly punished himself by being (not his words) "Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci."
Hef, a true (ok, half-true) Puritan, hippie [?] (but don't we trad-bound boys all love his male-centered "traditional pipe," so often seen in his promotional pixes?) ...
He, a modern-day "sexy" Calvin, was a mini-me Las Vegas, "individualized" to suit consumer "forbidden" tastes, (what every American aspires to?), maybe excluding a hamburger; to cite Baudelaire, he incessantly punished himself by being (not his words) "Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci."
Hef, a true (ok, half-true) Puritan, hippie [?] (but don't we trad-bound boys all love his male-centered "traditional pipe," so often seen in his promotional pixes?) ...
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