Piece of Shit #17

Hugh Hefner has changed your life.

I follow Hugh Hefner on Twitter. I follow him because I firmly believe that when the History of the 20th Century is written it will be noted that he, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Candace Bushnell have done more for women than any other individuals.

So I follow Mr. Hefner on Twitter and saw that recently he has been receiving somewhat hostile tweets from a young woman in Vancouver claiming that he has made a career out of "exploiting women" and also that thanks to the efforts of Playboy and similar publications containing erotic and sexual pictorials of young women, rape and violence against women has risen. I did a quick search to see if this is possibly true. I found no evidence to support this claim or any proof that Playboy has caused digression in the statistics of rape and sexual assault against women. In fact I personally feel that the publication of Playboy opened the door for women's sexuality as a main-stream topic of discussion. Mr. Hefner had the courage to first speak openly about that thing that ultimately makes us human, sex. He contributed the dialogue that gave us Sex and The City and now gives my generation the thing we always seek; options. Playboy provided us with the conversation where women could openly express what they wanted and didn't want sexually. We became equal players in an game that had historically been one sided. We could and do have the sex lives we want because we can simply now talk about them. If Mr. Hefner has done anything it's empower women, and especially the women who have graced his pages. Sex is power. It was in the caves. It was in the huts. And it is in the apartment complexes of today. So if Playboy has done anything for women, it's just that...given us the power of sex. Goooood shit...