Who is Hugh?
By Abriana Cantaffa
Who is Hugh Hefner? Before I state
the obvious, which is what everyone already knows about him. I am going to give
a little back ground information. Hugh is the oldest son of two conservative
parents. In high school he founded the school newspaper and served as president
of the student council. After graduating high school Hugh joined the Army as an
infantry clerk and drew comics. After being discharged from the Army, Hugh went
on to get his bachelor’s degree in 2 and a half years. While taking a semester
of graduate classes Hugh wrote a paper investigative sex laws in the United
States in relation to the research done by Kinsey. Hugh did marry. He married his
classmate Mildred Williams. [1]
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Hefner worked as a copywriter at
Esquire. Then Esquire was moving to New York. Hefner was not moving to New York
so he was going to say and begin his own magazine. He was not able to get the financial
help in order to begin his magazine. He was working for Publisher Development Corporation
when he was convinced that he was the person to start a sophisticated men’s
magazine. [2]
The first issue of Playboy had not
cover date because Hugh did not know if there would be another. The first issue
of Playboy had sold more than 50,000 prints. Enough were sold so that another
issue could be printed. Hugh never again doubted the success of the magazine. [3]
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Playboy was not the first magazine
that was to be aimed at the male population. Rather it was the first to show explicitly
nude women. The magazine encouraged readers to take pleasure in what women
could offer without emotional involvement. [4]
Hugh created a sexual empire from
his ability to know what men want. The magazine sales increased rapidly and a
quarter of the copies were sold on college campuses. [5]
Of course the conservative
population did not agree or like what Hefner was accomplishing. Women were not
to be shown the way he showed them off. Hefner openly attacked the American anti-sexuality.
[6]
I do not agree or disagree with
what Hugh Hefner has accomplished. He saw an opportunity and seized it. He is a
smart man. He had the ability to know what men wanted and made an empire off of
it.
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