Well today is Halloween. For years, the Halloween party at the Playboy mansion was the social event that celebrities look forward to. Although the parties are gone, the impact remains.
The Halloween celebration known as ‘Fantasy Fest’ in Key West still remains a popular event.
It’s the party at the Playboy mansion that draws my attention today. The party both celebrated Halloween and sexual libertinism. It was the Playboy philosophy of Hugh Hefner put into practice and on public display.
He managed crafting a lifestyle of parasitically living off of other’s lusts while indulging his own. Hugh is the poster boy for licentiousness.
Hugh Hefner was not always promoting licentiousness. In fact, he made it a point of saving himself for marriage to his first wife, Mildred (Millie). He began as a mild mannered illustrator and copywriter who feel in love.
The turning point came while in military service. While he was away during World War 2, Millie slept with another man.
Hugh married Millie in 1949, and soon discovered what happened while he was away.
He was heartbroken by what happened. That affair triggered a chain reaction of sexual promiscuity. Who knew that the Playboy empire was started by a wartime affair?
His plunge into the Playboy philosophy was part of his dealing with his first wife’s affair. Millie allowed him to sleep with other women as part of her penance for what she’d done. She gave him what’s called a ‘hall pass’.
That wasn’t enough. Hugh also launched his Playboy magazine within a few years of the discovery of her affair. He claimed his new magazine appealed to ‘men from 18 to 80.’
Affairs trigger intense emotional reactions. How that energy is funneled has made or broken many people. In his case, he plunged headlong into self-indulgent sexuality.
Despite his enjoying women, Hugh was always cautious about getting close after being burned by his first wife. Affairs leave life long scars.
Although it made him money, it didn’t provide stability or security, as shown by three marriages and numerous broken relationships along the way. Even the Beatles knew that “Money can’t buy me love”, although Hugh tried.
He ended life with a mechanical heart and mechanical genitals that required he stay away from cell phones. He was also almost deaf from excessive male enhancement medication use.
Hugh also relied on pornography in getting off rather than actually sleeping with women. It became his primary method of arousal.
The pool grotto was found to contain 14 strains of VD. Licentiousness lifestyles have their risks which are often not mentioned.
Some things money can’t buy or protect you from.
There is always an intense emotional reaction to an affair. That reaction can be used for good or selfish purposed. There are also physical consequences. The difference is in how you deal with them. The downloadable “Affair Recovery Workshop” guides you in putting that reaction toward healing.
Imagine what can happen when instead of being turned toward destructive or selfish ends, that the energy is instead turned toward rebuilding your marriage.
Best Regards,
Jeff
2 Responses
No doubt in the aftermath, it would be easy to go all out stupid. There is a huge draw to go do what has been done to you!
Anonymous,
I agree, in the aftermath of something like an affair, it’s easy to go out all stupid and have a revenge affair. Some people take this ‘hair of the dog’ type of approach. I don’t recommend it. That approach puts more distance between the two of you and piles up more offenses that can turn into resentments.