I’m watching Secrets of Playboy on Channel 4 and the abuse, emotional, physical and sexual, of women that took place over the decades linked to Hefner and Playboy is sickening.
I looked for Mumsnet threads on the documentary, but this came up from 2008 instead.
I’ve read it quite shocked. I know we’re post-Me Too now, but did it ever really look like a fun place to be? Was it not clear Hefner was always exploitative and a creep, albeit not to the hugely criminal extent it’s been revealed to be now.
Then again, I always thought it was clear Jimmy Savile was dangerous but I’ve seen dated threads about him where everyone is rushing to defend him.
On a positive note, I think there’d be a lot more criticism of the way these women were clearly being exploited if the documentary aired this year and now in the early 2000s.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/643859-to-be-watching-quot-girls-of-the-playboy-mansion-quot