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NBC is now contributing to and encouraging a highly dangerous sexualized culture as they stoop further into the gutter for programming and profits. This fall, NBC plans to air its new series, “The Playboy Club.” One of the stars of the show explained that she took the role because she looked up to  Hugh Heffner for his “ progressive and racy nature to push the envelope and push society forward” and she hopes that this show does the same thing yet again.  It will certainly push the envelope…

But, is the degradation and exploitation of women pushing society forward?  Throughout its history, Playboy has certainly had an impact on society – encouraging the objectification of women and marketing their pornography with language that implies coercion and violence against women. The dominance of pornography in American society, begun by Playboy, has led to great harms, including child sexual exploitation, greater demand for sex trafficking, addiction and destroyed marriages.  NBC’s decision to air “The Playboy Club” will only encourage greater acceptance of pornography AND THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF GIRLS AND WOMEN.

As the show begins, one hears Hugh Heffner’s voice explaining:

…I built a place in the toddlin’ town where everything was perfect, where life was magic, where the rules were broken and fantasies became realities for everyone who walked in the doors. It wasn’t the 50s anymore…and that was my kingdom. It was the place where dreams came true.”

Now, 60 years later we can see that millions of lives have been damaged as a result of this romanticized lie that pornography is harmless entertainment and simply “dreams coming true.”  We don’t need NBC to pour more fuel to that fire!

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Ex-Playmates speak out against the Mansion and Hef’s treatment of his girlfriends:

Jill Ann Spaulding wrote a book,  Upstairs.

In her book, Spaulding explains how the girls in the mansion are typically desperate for the 1,000 dollars per week that they earn at the end of each week. She said she wasn’t in it for the money at first; it was more about receiving the honor of a “pin-up” and taking pride as one of the most beautiful girls in the world. Just because the girls enter Playboy at their own risk, does not make the institution or the treatment taking place there acceptable. On one of the nights, she was invited for one of the “sex parties,” ten of the twelve girls there had unprotected sex with Hefner.

Proceeds from Spaulding’s book have been donated to PREHAD, a service that helps victims of domestic violence, as well as the homeless.

Izabella St James also wrote a book, Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion

The portrait of Hefner painted by Izabella St James isn’t anymore appealing. He invited her to be his girlfriend after meeting in a Hollywood nightclub back in 2002 when she was 26. Hefner typically has anywhere between three and 15 girlfriends at a time. One girlfriend will be chosen as the No. 1 and will share the bedroom with him every night, while the others only visit twice a week. She states:

“If any of us visited Hef’s bedroom – we’d almost always end up standing in dog mess. Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.”

“He must know deep down that it is just a show. But he is trying to live out this fantasy he has been selling to people since 1954.”

More Articles:

• ‘Bunny’s Tale’ from Gloria Steinem
• Hugh Hefner falls for matrimony
• Playboy mansion? More like a squalid prison: Former Playmates tell of ‘grubby’ world inside Hugh Hefner’s empire
• Former Playmate Izabella St. James Tells All About Sex With ‘Dead Fish’ Hugh Hefner
• Ex-Playmate Reveals Playboy Mansion Secrets
• Bunny Tales By Izabella St. James
• Ex-Playmate’s Book Says Hugh Hefner “Dead Fish” In Bed
• Hugh Hefner Has Sex Twice A Week, Playmates Describe Orgies
• Kendra Wilkinson Talks New Book On Meth Use, Sex With Hugh Hefner (Video)
• Sex and the Single Man
• Being the wife of Hugh Hefner
• When Playboy Bunnies Ruled

Now, 20+ years into the Internet age there is no doubt that pornography has devastating affects on individuals, families and society. These increased societal ills include: sex trafficking, child pornography, violence against women and children, addiction, exploitation, family disintegration, increased crime, and the list goes on. Playboy is the leading contributor to our highly pornified society and to the rise of these devastating effects.

Learn more about the harms from pornography by visiting www.PornHarms.com.

Here’s what they’re saying about the show:

• Slate: The Playboy Club: Changing the world, one bunny at a time
• Opposing Views: Morality In Media: “The Playboy Club” TV show will fail
• The Daily Breeze: NEW TV SEASON: ‘Playboy Club’ draws call for boycotts
• Mother Jones: What Gloria Steinem Got Wrong About “The Playboy Club”
• Salon.com: My Mother, The Playboy Bunny
• Parents Television Council: PTC Blasts NBC for Hypocrisy over Playboy Mag Cross-Promotion
• San Francisco Examiner: ‘Playboy’ show has San Francisco group hopping mad
• Chicago Business: Playboy Club returning to Chicago after two-decade hiatus
• NPR: The Bizarre Pitch For ‘The Playboy Club’: It’s All About Female Empowerment?
• TV Spy: More calls for boycott of NBC’s ‘Playboy Club’
• Townhall: NBC Leans On Playboy
• Newsbusters: NBC’s ‘Playboy’ Pitch Failing With Feminists, Not Just Traditionalists
• The Examiner: Hugh Hefner dropped from ‘The Playboy Club’
• The Hollywood Reporter: NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club’ Argues It’s All About Women’s Empowerment
• The Business of Television Broadcasting & Cable: Exclusive: PTC Asks NBC Affils Not to Air ‘Playboy Club’
• Fox News: Anti-Porn Groups Tell NBC To Nix ‘Playboy Club’ Before It Airs, Or Else
• Huffington Post: ‘The Playboy Club’ Anti-Porn Groups Boycott: Pink Cross, Morality In Media Protest NBC Show
• Deseret News: Anti-porn group launches online petition, boycott of ‘The Playboy Club’
• Washington Post: NBC’s Playboy bunnies bounced in Salt Lake
• KSL TV: KSL removes Playboy Club from fall TV schedule
• The Good Men Project: Playboy changed the world for the worse
• The New York Times: Corsets, Cleavage, Fishnets
• Los Angeles Times: Longing for a time when bad was good
• Time: Knee to Knee with Hefner: An Interview with the Oldest Playboy
• Chicago Tribune: Chicago could be home to ‘Playboy’ series
• Opinion: Women on TV Get “Mad”
• Inside TV Entertainment Weekly: ‘ThePlayboy Club’ star Amber Heard: ‘I don’t think it’s that racy’
• Bloomberg: NBC, ABC Get Closer to Completing Ad Sales for Next TV Season