Hugh Hefner Beliefs

Even though many people feel negatively about Hugh Hefner, he possessed some values that I admire. Little known facts about Hefner are, he was a psychology major and had a high IQ (152), he also used the playboy jet to airlift orphans out of Vietnam, he holds 2 Guinness book of world records: one for the scrapbooking and the other for being the longest editor and chief for a magazine. Hefner was a virgin when he was first married at the age of 22 and wrote his own comic book series in high school. These small things together show the positives of his personality and why he is both interesting and shows value as a person
One aspect of Hefner is his openness both in his political opinions and his beliefs on sexuality. Openly left winged, he pushed for more public birth control, pro-choice abortion, fought for gay rights, reproductive rights and civil rights. He expanded efforts of black artist and writers in a time that they were oppressed. He fought to end segregation completely. He once stated, "... I believe and hope that Playboy [has] played some small part in changing the values — social and sexual — of our time." This one man changed ideas of morality for a
He had a belief that change was needed in order for society to change. And that in order to see this change that rebellion against social ideas was the only form that would succeed. Rebellion against social ideas is what our country was founded on. Rebels like Hefner have brought ideas that were hidden by codes found within society. One specific rebellion was on the thoughts on women and sexual freedom. Even though People have stated that he sexualized women. However, he saw women as sexual objects but not in a negative way, because without sexual attraction and reproduction we would not carry on through life. Hefner never saw the magazine as pornography, but rather as art. It was a way of changing and rebelling against limited thoughts and