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Pam Anderson Is Latest Celebrity Seeking Attention by Vowing to Quit Social Media

Friday, January 29, 2021 at 7:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Pam Anderson at a press signing.

Celebrities vow to quit social media As clickbait goes, celebrities posting tweets pledging to quit social media takes the cake. Pam Anderson is the latest to take the pledge. But in seeking more fame, she just looks lame.  Of course, social media platforms are rife with social malignancies, physical dangers, and moral hazards. Thus, if celebrities made public service… Read more.

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Hugh Hefner, Self-Professed Playboy and Cultural Revolutionary, Is Dead

Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 10:52 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

With Playboy, Hugh Hefner pioneered publishing pornographic pictures of pretty women. But I gather I might have been the only boy, during the early 1970s, who found this magazine far more intellectually than physically stimulating. Indeed, this famous trope had true meaning for me: I read Playboy for the articles. For example, I can thank… Read more.

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Playboy Will Stop Showing Nudes!

Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Playboy is covering up. For 62 years, the iconic adult magazine has fueled sexual fantasies with glossy fold-out spreads of fully nude women. Furtively hidden in adolescent bedrooms and defiantly plastered on college dorm room walls, it helped spark America’s sexual revolution and tested the country’s acceptance of photos that in an earlier day passed for pornography. Now, however, in… Read more.

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Playboy Hef Dumped Like an Ordinary Chump

Friday, June 17, 2011 at 5:40 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I’m sure there was a time — 40 to 50 years ago — when every guy wanted to be Hugh Hefner. Not because he peddled soft porn for a living, but because so many beautiful women were reportedly lining up to have sex with him to appear in Playboy. Incidentally, I have always felt that he… Read more.

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