think like a ballet dancer

~  I must have you!

~  No, not on the piano.  It's a rented piano.

~  Darling, my darling, my -- Sonja!  Come to my quarters tomorrow at three!

~  I can't.

~  Please!


~  It's immoral.  What time?


~  Who is to say what is moral?  Morality is subjective.  Subjectivity is objective.

~  Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.


~  Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.


~  Can we not talk about sex so much?

---------------------- [excerpt from the Woody Allen film, Love and Death.  1975.]


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     I was reminded of the attitudes and subject matter in this movie when I was on You Tube reading viewer Comments about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

Comment:
"I bet he died with a smile.  Think about it, he was a trail blazer."

Comment:
"He was a demon lol.  Put in place to deculturalize society."


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Sex is bad.

Sex is good.

Sex should never be discussed openly.

Sex should always be discussed openly.



     Nudity is bad.

     The human form is beautiful but only in paintings in a museum, not in photographs in magazines.


Women's liberation spokespeople:  "Playboy magazine objectifies women!"



Question:  Do women want to be taken seriously and respected as human beings?  Or do they want to be admired and worshiped as beautiful sexual goddesses?
     Answer:  Yes.
     ("What?")


"Sex is a positive thing, and should be enjoyed and celebrated.  I love my primary girlfriend, and on occasion I enjoy the intimate company of assorted other young ladies when the spirit moves me."

     "And your primary girlfriend enjoys this same freedom of sexual spirit, right?"

     "What??!"

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 1953

"We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph, and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex."

     Hefner wrote this blithe, liberated, aspirational statement in Playboy's first issue, which sold (50 cents each) fifty-four thousand copies.
     At its peak -- in 1975 -- circulation climbed to 5.6 million.

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