The obsession with virginity has messed up countless individual's lives.NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:that explains a lot.Mr. Perfect wrote:Hugh Hefner is roasting in a hot place tonight.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4565862/h ... d-playboy/
But it was the betrayal a young Hefner suffered at the hands of his first wife that marked his formative years and one that he went on to describe as "the most devastating moment" of his life.
He married Mildred Williams in 1949 in the belief the pair had 'saved themselves' for one another.
The couple had met at college in the mid 40s.
Little did Chicago-born Hefner know that his beloved Milly had slept with another man while her beau served in the US military during the Second World War.
Explaining his heartbreak, he said: "I think the relationship was probably held together by two years of foreplay.
"That wasn't unusual for our time. In fact, most of my immediate friends didn't have sex until they married. Milly and I had it just before.
"I had literally saved myself for my wife, but after we had sex she told me that she'd had an affair. That was the most devastating moment in my life.
"My wife was more sexually experienced than I was. After that, I always felt in a sense that the other guy was in bed with us, too."
Along with ignorance about sex in general.
Playboy images were high art compared to Penthouse, Hustler, Vivid, etc.It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
― Voltaire
The articles and interviews were revolutionary for their time.
Back in Hefner's day, a media channel such as Playboy was required for a girl to be seen.
Today women are doin' for themselves, provocatively posing at various levels of explicitness, via social media: Instagram, Tinder, and others.
As are men, I suppose.