Hugh Hefner was the ultimate enemy of women no feminist anywhere will shed a tear at his death

[MineralMan]

113. Of course they can make choices as individuals.

I did not imply otherwise. I imagine if I placed an ad on Craigs List, offering $1000 per session for nude models, my phone would be ringing off the hook. People need money to survive and will do many things to get it. I would not do such a thing, of course, but I'm certain that I'd have plenty of willing models.

Yes, people make their own decisions. However people make many decisions that are negative in their effect, based on need. If I were to pay people to do something and then exploited their willingness to do so in a way that demeaned women in general, I'd would be a sexist pig, to be quite frank. I am not that, so I do not do that.

Hugh Hefner paid far more that that for his nude models. He build a publishing empire that was copied and modified by others. There is a multi-billion dollar Internet porn industry that pays far less for people to perform sex acts, often demeaning acts, for videos. It's easy to get women who are in need of money for survival to do almost anything to survive. That does not make it a good thing to do. Exploiting people for money is not an ethical thing to do, even if they are willing.

That's my opinion. I believe that exploiting people for demeaning and often harmful motivations is simply wrong, and would never engage in such activities. Plenty of others, though, are more than happy to do so. It sucks to be them, but it sucks far worse for the people who are used by them, I think.

You might think differently. And there it is.