My secret news-source sent me this link:
Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol
The headline is the title of an intriguing new working paper [PDF] by two University of Leuven economists Mara Squicciarini and Jo Swinnen. The two note an interesting correlation between societies that practice monogamy and those that drink alcohol.
Intriguingly, across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol. We investigate whether there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and polygynous/monogamous arrangements, both over time and across cultures. Historically, we find a correlation between the shift from polygyny to monogamy and the growth of alcohol consumption. Cross-culturally we also find that monogamous societies consume more alcohol than polygynous societies in the preindustrial world. We provide a series of possible explanations to explain the positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption over time and across societies.
In fact the two economists find that more drinking means more monogamy.
Which made a weird segue in my mind to another story. There is no relationhship at all except in my own dirty mind:
Have you ever seen a creepy-cable-show called, “The Girls Next Door”? As Wikipedia describes it, “The series focuses on the lives of Hefner’s girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion. Hefner is often on the show along with various Playmates and other celebrities.” And THAT makes the show sound a lot more exciting than it is. Turns out that like all reality TV the talent is in the editing.
Here’s what they’re leaving on the cutting-room floor:
… But unfortunately for Hefner, some of his former ‘girlfriends’, as he calls them, have become disenchanted with life in his harem over the years.
One by one they have revealed what life was like behind the glittering façade of the Playboy Mansion. According to them, it disguises a grubby world where some girls feel they are no better than prostitutes, paid pocket money by an octogenarian obsessive who funds plastic surgery to turn them into his physical ideal, and yet must still take huge amounts of Viagra to manage sex with them.
Hefner likes to have anywhere between three and 15 girlfriends at any one time. One of the group will be chosen to be Girlfriend No 1. She will share Hefner’s bedroom at all times, while the others are merely visitors.
. . .
For Izabella, the Playboy Mansion was far from the glamorous pleasure palace she had imagined. ‘Each bedroom had mismatched, random pieces of furniture,’ she recalls in her autobiography Bunny Tales. ‘It was as if someone had gone to a charity shop and bought the basics for each room.
‘Although we all did our best to decorate our rooms and make them homely, the mattresses on our beds were disgusting — old, worn and stained. The sheets were past their best, too.
. . .
She adds: ‘But then Hef was used to dirty carpets. The one in his bedroom had not been changed for years, and things became significantly worse when Holly Madison moved into his room with him as Girlfriend No. 1 soon after I moved in, bringing her two dogs.‘They weren’t house-trained and would just do their business on the bedroom carpet. Late at night, or in the early hours of the morning — if any of us visited Hef’s bedroom — we’d almost always end up standing in dog mess.
I’m not sure what she means with the crack about finding furniture at a charity shop …. I’ve seen stuff at the one up the street from me that is wonderful. But, we get the idea, the Playboy Mansion: It’s dirty, dude.
As with so much else in their time with Hefner, the girls followed strict rules before entering his bedroom for the sex parties.One of those who witnessed these preparations was Jill Ann Spaulding, an aspiring model who wrote to Hefner in 2002 asking to be a Playboy centrefold.
. . .
Beforehand, all the girls were told to take a bath. ‘I got in, then another girl appeared from nowhere and jumped in with me,’ recalls Spaulding. ‘Then Hef stepped around the corner and took a photo of us naked in the bath together before disappearing. It was all very strange.‘Another girl led me into Hef’s master bedroom. The only light was coming from two TVs on which adult films were showing. All the other girls were there, dressed like me in pink pyjamas.
‘If you kept your pyjama bottoms on, that was a sign that you didn’t want to have contact that night.’ According to Spaulding there were 12 girls there on that first night, and only she and another girl declined the offer to have sex with Hefner, who did not use a condom.
. . .
Although still hoping to make Playboy centrefold, Jill Ann Spaulding was determined to resist becoming intimate with Hefner and quickly discovered the consequences when she returned to his room for another of the sex parties, keeping her pyjama bottoms determinedly on. The other girls soon made it clear that she was expected to take them off.‘I was terrified. They were all looking at me, including Hef from the bed — just staring straight at me. I said firmly that I couldn’t join in.
‘Hef looked absolutely furious, and one of the girls hissed at me that I was disappointing him. I didn’t care. Hef’s face was like thunder but I was left alone.’
. . .
But St James — with big university debts — was more interested in the weekly pocket money which Hefner paid all his girlfriends. ‘Every Friday morning we had to go to Hef’s room, wait while he picked up all the dog poo off the carpet — and then ask for our allowance: a thousand dollars counted out in crisp hundred-dollar bills from a safe in one of his bookcases,’ she says.
‘We all hated this process. Hef would always use the occasion to bring up anything he wasn’t happy about in the relationship. Most of the complaints were about the lack of harmony among the girlfriends — or your lack of sexual participation in the “parties” he held in his bedroom.
. . .
The girls travelled with Hefner in a white limousine which had a leopard-skin interior, with Playboy bunny logos sewn onto the seats. As they left the mansion, they drank Dom Perignon champagne and downed Quaaludes, a prescription-only sedative drug popularised in the Seventies and now handed out by Hefner.‘Quaaludes were supposed to give you a nice buzz,’ says Izabella St James. ‘Hef told me once that they were meant to put girls in the mood for sex.’
Does it really make sense to call these women “girlfriends”? Or is it just flat-out prostitution if the “girls” are judged & paid each week by how happily they participate in regular sex parties?
And, I have to wonder if the girls pictured in myiq2xu’s post yesterday, The pornification of young girls are heading toward a visit at The Mansion?
Filed under: General | Tagged: Hugh Hefner, Playboy Mansion, polygyny, The Girls Next Door |
I’m getting an error. That I don’t get … says to watch it from YouTube … but it IS a youtube video?
Some YouTube videos embed but they don’t embed.
I don’t know why they do that.
If you’re 80 you shouldn’t have sex with anyone under 60
I got a friend who can help with that.
What shape are your kidneys in?
Which one of the girls has to change his Depends?
Good question! Maybe that’s not really dog poop on all the carpets?
{{pukes}}
It depends…
OK, this is more interesting than that perve and his bottles of Viagra.
Interesting to see what the map looks like in a couple of days. Spooky, scary and leaves one to wonder.
Dandy Tiger already posted once today about the bird and fish kills and Katiebird worked very hard on this post.
I think it’s interesting even if you don’t.
Yours… 😉
Last time I checked it belonged to Riverdaughter.
He lines up women, no different than the Mustang Ranch, only difference is they get photo shoots and are called Bunnies and wear fancy night wears. Why the media has given it a pass?
Seems it is still exciting to see this Ole goat running around with nakkid women, and can you imagine, an 80 Ole woman with 15 men, calling them in, like chattel, they would have her committed.
G’nite
You really think Katiebird was excited to see this story?
BTW – The Mustang Ranch closed years ago.
Good night.
The viagra is the least
interestingsurprising part of the story (which is why I didn’t mention his phony engagement)I’ve always been interested in squalor & this story is saturated in that
That is weird, he has plenty of cash (clearly to hand out a thousand a week) to hire cleaning people or something. The part about Hef picking up dog messes was weird because I thought rich people had staff to take care of those kinds of things.
Weird for sure. Sometimes he picks it up and sometimes the “girls” stnd in. It…
Here’s what I think : this comment sucks.I’m never going to guess wht you think I should write about.
That other comment,though? With the 80 year old granny? That wasn’t bad. It was actually conversation
Hef is getting really pathetic–or was he ever anything else? 😕
Probly not.
You would think Mr. Hefner could afford to install tile or concrete floors that could just be hosed down with bleach.
Which is what I wish I could do with my brain after reading the description of that wretched man.
djmm
That’s how it goes with squalor.If you don’t have to hose yourself down –it’s not that squalid.
Oh, but he is 80 years old and when I think about the homes of some of my older relatives… It isn’t squalor but they won’t pass any white glove tests.
My grandmother gets moisture ants (piss ants for the really classy people!) coming into the kitchen if she forgets to clean up sugar, but she can’t see them very well because they are so small.
The “girlfriends” aren’t 80.
that must be it!
So the American Association of Wine Economists are promoting research that says wine drinking promotes monogamy. That’s some creative marketing. I’m gonna guess there is plenty of alcohol being consumed on a regular basis at the Playboy Mansion.
I suppose one could make the case that polygamy is sanctioned by some religious societies that also prohibit alcohol consumption. Not sure how much of that is relevant in modern times. But it sure doesn’t mean that getting drunk keeps you from cheating on your partner.
Sony Bankrolls 3D Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Videos for PlayStation and TV.
3D Swimsuit Video is a nice euphemism for “you’ll be able to watch fullout 3D Porn.” It is not a coincidence that the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Show and the world’s biggest Adult Entertainment Expo are starting tomorrow in Las Vegas at the same time.
I read somewhere that HD porn isn’t catching on because it shows too much.
The expression “warts and all” comes to mind.
It just occurred to me that somewhere out there, one might find people who find warts erotic, and would pay extra to see them. 😮
Rule 34: If it exists, there’s pr0n of it on the Net. 😉
Reference: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleThirtyFour
I need a drink.
Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals.
These accounts from behind the scene are so much more repulsive – and sad – than the actual show. Which was in itself quite repulsive and sad. Though I’ll admit I found it entertaining too – in the sense “I can’t believe this is really happening!”
Another sad look at how women are exploited – and seek the exploitation – is the documentary Videocracy. Worth watching …
I just find it sad that there are women with such low self-esteem/self-worth that they think selling themselves to the old geezer is good. I can never watch any of these reality shows for the same reason – the participants are usually just selling themselves for their “15 minutes”.