What a Creep: Hugh Hefner (Playboy Founder & Creep) TW: SA
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Season 14, Episode 10
Playboy Founder & Creep
On September 17, 2017, Hugh Marston Heffner died at the age of 91. He was hailed in the press (for decades) as being solely responsible for the sexual revolution of the 60s, a champion of civil rights, a First Amendment warrior, a philanthropic activist, and a hero to women who would still be stuck home with sexless lives were it not for his brand Playboy.
It was just a few weeks afterward that the ‘Me Too” movement began with the first articles about Harvey Weinstein being played out in the media and shitty people decrying “cancel culture” ever since. In this episode, I will talk about the ways Hef used manipulation to control and dominate the lives of people who worked for him and the horrendous legacy of his horrible relations with women that lasted for decades at the Playboy mansion.
Trigger Warnings: Sexual Assault, Rape, Drug Use, and Animal Abuse (very slight mention here)
Sources:
The Independent
In These Times.com
The Los Angeles Times
A & E Network’s “Secrets of Playboy”
American Playboy “The Hugh Hefner Story”
Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison
Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion by Jennifer Saginor
Elle
The Guardian
Slate
Nina McCollum Medium
Variety
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margot Donnie and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.2 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.9 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, but best of the |
| 0:13.6 | worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome back to What a Creep, this is Margot Donnie, you and my cohort in creepitude |
| 0:31.2 | as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:39.0 | We have quite the episode today. |
| 0:42.1 | I've been talking to you for 20 minutes. |
| 0:43.8 | I don't know if I could get into it. |
| 0:45.8 | This is going to be a heavy one, but it has to be done. |
| 0:49.8 | This is. |
| 0:50.8 | It's time. |
| 0:51.8 | It is time. |
| 0:52.8 | This guy is far creepier than I ever expected. |
| 0:55.7 | Just in case you are new to the show, we are the podcast that talks about creeps from |
| 0:59.2 | the past to the present. |
| 1:00.9 | What goes on is that one of us talks about a creep and then the other one is challenged |
| 1:04.4 | to come up with a non-creep. |
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