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Hugh Hefner's Crumbling Empire of Ickiness

Generations of straight white men grew up admiring Hugh Hefner, who turned out to be a giant creep, sex criminal and possible bestiality enthusiast.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinFebruary 3, 2022Hugh Hefner, Playboy, pornography, #MeToo

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #213 Playback (1996)

My perversely obscure, random patron-funded exploration of the films and television projects of Tawny Kitaen comes to an appropriately obscure, random end with a look at Playback, a business-themed erotic theater that paired Kitaen with DTV erotic thriller queen Shannon Whirry and the slumming likes of Harry Dean Stanton and George Hamilton.

Exploiting our Archives: Rape Culture, Hugh Hefner, Bob Zmuda and "The Playboy Mansion Story"

Sometimes a single repulsive story about power and celebrity abused stands in for a whole bunch of similarly sad, sordid and unforgivable tales. Such is the nature of Bob Zmuda's "Playboy Mansion story"