E! TV Using 'Girls Next Door' to Normalize Porn Industry

By James L. Lambert
November 23, 2005

(AgapePress) - Entertainment Television's show Girls Next Door is just another example of Hollywood's attempt to normalize the porn industry in today's culture, claims an internationally respected expert and justice consultant on the subject.

In an exclusive interview, Dr. Judith Reisman -- author of the soon-to-be-released book Kinsey's Attic: How One Man's Psychopathology Changed the World -- blasted the E! TV channel by saying, "the fact [that the network] states on its website that they are owned 49.9% by Disney says it all."

Continuing, Reisman asserts that "Disney now pimps the antique, surgically enhanced Hugh Hefner playboy. Hefner's 'innocent' pornography will seduce dad. Seduce dad and you will get his kids. Seduce kids and you control; you own an entire impotent male population of users and female wannabees -- forever."

Reisman, a prolific writer who is best known for her expose on sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, recalls that Hefner "actually drew the first 'sibling' incest cartoon for Playboy in 1954." She adds that the Playboy founder "personally selected the thousands of child sex abuse jokes and cartoons that were a Playboy staple."

The author is disturbed that the network is investing so much time glamorizing the 79-year-old purveyor of porn. The show, advertised as a reality show filmed exclusively from the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, focuses on the mansion itself and the everyday lives of the three "twenty-something" live-in girlfriends of the aging publisher. In one episode, the three women are shown preparing for a nude layout in the famous magazine, all under the watchful eye of the magazine's patriarch. It is not uncommon for the Disney-owned network to fade the camera in
scenes when nudity is revealed.

Reisman is disappointed that E! Television would feature a person such as Hefner whose exploits have had such a negative influence on modern culture. "What non-consumers do not know -- and what many Playboy consumers overlook," she says, "is that Playboy has always been much more than a girlie or men's magazine. It has long been the bully pulpit for a worldview that judges men according to their tally of sexual conquests. The worldwide prototype for Playboy's male design was publisher Hugh Hefner's own allegedly outrageous sexual lifestyle."

Reisman also sees the E! TV program as promoting Playboy's endorsement of multi-partner sexual relationships. Hefner's live-in girlfriends illustrate that, she says. According to the author, "many male consumers are easily trained to believe they are being cheated if they have a love life with one woman. Sex merchants intend to displace woman-wife and love. Sex merchants intend to become the consumer's substitute lover!"

Judith Reisman: E! TV Using 'Girls Next Door' to Normalize Porn Industry
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