{"id":5174,"date":"2017-10-05T05:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/camille-paglia-on-hugh-hefner\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:10:25","slug":"camille-paglia-on-hugh-hefner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/camille-paglia-on-hugh-hefner\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/span><\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Hugh Hefner absolutely revolutionized the persona of the American male. In the post-World War II era, men's magazines were about hunting and fishing or the military, or they were like Esquire<\/em>, erotic magazines with a kind of European flair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hefner reimagined the American male as a connoisseur in the continental manner, a man who enjoyed all the fine pleasures of life, including sex. Hefner brilliantly put sex into a continuum of appreciative response to jazz, to art, to ideas, to fine food. This was something brand new. Enjoying fine cuisine had always been considered unmanly in America. Hefner updated and revitalized the image of the British gentleman, a man of leisure who is deft at conversation \u2014 in which American men have never distinguished themselves \u2014 and the art of seduction, which was a sport refined by the French.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Camille Paglia does not merit the plenary MavPhil<\/em> endorsement, but C. P. is a good partial antidote to P. C. , and she never fails to entertain.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may enjoy this critical piece: Camille Paglia on Philosophy and Women in Philosophy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here:  Hugh Hefner absolutely revolutionized the persona of the American male. In the post-World War II era, men's magazines were about hunting and fishing or the military, or they were like Esquire, erotic magazines with a kind of European flair. Hefner reimagined the American male as a connoisseur in the continental manner, a man who enjoyed … Continue reading “Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,407,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-manners-and-mores","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}