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The legacy of Helen Gurley Brown

Donjindra Wrote: Aug 16, 2012 12:14 PM

"This was before 'anything goes' replaced self-control as a worthy goal." When was this exactly? I wonder if Thomas pays attention? There is no movement toward 'anything goes' either in the media or the culture itself. Even on a Jerry Springer show, tramps are scorned if not pummeled. Practically any movie concerning the sexes will ultimately glorify love and monogamy. It's true Hefner is a self-absorbed hedonist but only an idiot could ignore the fact that he did not create his market, Men have always been voyeurs. People were not born wearing clothes. Thomas should learn something about his subject if he wants to elevate his columns above propaganda.

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JPK2 Wrote: Aug 16, 2012 2:43 PM

You obviously never heard of the 1970s. For a decade, anything goes was the norm. And now, people hide their sexual proclivities behind a wall of resepctability and political correctness. Remember, how Limbaugh was castigated for calling Sandra Fluke a Sl#t? Fluke described to Congress the "needs" of coeds like herself (they needed birthcontrol 24.x7x365); she in fact, described a life-style of a sl#t.But she and the Progressives lacked enough self awareness to realize it.

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The legacy of Helen Gurley Brown

When women complain about men who can't commit, they can thank -- or blame -- two people: Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, who died this week at age 90.

Brown was the flip side of Hefner, offering women permission, even encouragement, to embrace a female version of Hefner's freewheeling "Playboy philosophy" of unrestrained sexual pleasure. Brown and Hefner offered one-way tickets to fantasyland, a journey supposedly without cost to a destination seemingly without consequences.

I confess to pausing at the supermarket checkout each month to read Cosmo's...

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