Probably few people care, but the Playboy Mansion has been sold for $100,000,000. According to the August 17th (2016) Orlando Sentinel, the five-acre piece of property was purchased by the next-door neighbor (A4). The terms of the sale allow Hugh Hefner, who is 90, to stay there the rest of his life. How disappointing! One might have hoped that the house would have been razed and then watered by tanker trucks full of Lysol. But the neighbor is only going to combine his property and Heffner’s into one. The two were originally one until 40 years ago when they were split, the larger portion being sold to the current tenant. No word was mentioned as to what the former editor of Playboy would do with the money; one thing is certain—he will not be able to buy his way out of death and the judgment.
The real estate owned by Hefner is infamous for its immorality. Even the news blurb, which contains just factual information, could not help but report the truth concerning what occurred there for years. He turned “it into a playground for countless celebrity-filled parties and hedonism that defined the Playboy ethos.” If someone did not know what the word hedonism meant, he might, when reading the above sentence, envision a well-landscaped place with a merry-go-round, monkey bars, and teeter-totters, where the socially elite hung out.
Needless to say, many women were immodestly clad at that location, but now too much clothing is being protested. The day following the Hefner story, a column by Kathleen Parker was published on page A17. She opened the subject with the following irony:
Once upon a time, a scantily clad lass padding down a beach might cause a riot—at least of eyeballs eager to extend a sidelong glance. Today, it’s the fully-clothed woman who overheats passions in France, where three towns have banned the burkini. Leave it to the French to criminalize modesty.
Yes, three towns in France have banned the attire that Muslim women wear. Their outfits (dubbed burkinis) are modest, covering the hair and the entire body down to the feet. They seem to call attention to the style and color of what the woman is wearing rather than to the flesh that is exposed. Compared to the women who are on the beach with most of their bodies exposed, they look a little bizarre. However, an interesting question should be asked: Which type of clothing led to the hedonism that took place at Hefner’s house? Hmm.