A Playboy Turns 80

Playboy Hugh Hefner turns 80 this week. Dr. Al Mohler has written a very informing commentary on Hefner's legacy. In the following quote, Mohler makes a fine observation:

"Millions of American males gained their early conception of women and sex from Playboy and its pictures. Hefner sold America on a false and distorted vision of sex and a degraded vision of women as sexual playthings for male fantasies. The magazine does not present sexual reality and the truth about sexuality freed from moral constraints--it just rolls out a monthly issue filled with fresh pictures.

The playmates of the month are airbrushed into unreality, and their true selves are hidden from view. Their bodies are 'artistically enhanced,' and their services are merely for hire. This is a business, after all.

There is no truth in this presentation, other than the tawdriness of the entire enterprise. Hefner and his magazine mainstreamed pornography by selling America on the idea that women can be reduced to nothing more than visual images for male sexual fantasies. Hefner's women never age, never blush, and never say no. The men (and boys) who consume these images never have to grow up, even as their objects of lust never grow old."

Dr. Mohler is correct. Sadly, all across this nation, young boys find out about sexuality, not from their father explaining about the beauty of God-ordained sexual intercourse between a husband and a wie, but instead, from magazines that have been acquired from older kids, or older dads, that showcase a woman's outer (naked) looks, and not on a woman's real beauty which comes from within. It is ironic that in the age of 'liberation,' our society has made many men slaves to that which they desired have access.