Opposing Views: VIDEO: Playboy Under Attack For Posting Hate Sex Column

Playboy Under Attack For Posting Hate Sex Column

By Opposing Views Editorial Staff , To Protect and Serve Opposing Views - June 05, 2009

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Playboy Online is facing harsh criticism after columnist Guy Cimbalo generated what some are calling a "rape list," naming ten women he deems conservative and arguing that they generate a desire for hate sex among men. Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly (one of the women mentioned on the list) responds:

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VIDEO: Playboy Under Attack For Posting Hate Sex Column

epic fail

This does represent a major failure of the editorial process... any sane editor would never have put that piece up.

There is no difference between this list and publishing a list of people who should be killed due to their political views (no matter what those views may be).

- MrBook June 5, 2009 4:55PM

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Disgusting

How does something like this even get published in this day and age? How does someone like this even exist? It makes me depressed for the state of the world.

Even though I am not pro- pornography , I always thought Playboy was the most benign in that industry. Now I realize they are the same as all the rest of their disgusting counterparts.

- donnawatkins June 10, 2009 11:23AM

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Thanks, Playboy

Playboy = FAIL.

So a person's political ideology forces men to feel rage and in this rage they automatically want to have "hate sex?" Because men express all their feelings through sexual acts. (?) Does any male find this insulting to his gender? It implies that simply disagreeing with another person can awaken a need and impulse for violent acts and lawlessness. Do men have no control over themselves?

Why was this even deemed publishable? Anything that remotely advocates rape and violence against woman for ANY reason should not be allowed, especially in a magazine that calls itself "pro sex."

- Jerica June 10, 2009 12:19PM

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why isn't my ex-wife on the list?

she says... "what SOME are calling a rape list" - I tend to see this as journalistic license painting something they don't like in the harshest terms. Since the Playboy piece is not available this is conjecture on my part. Okay, are others calling it indicative of how some guys find conservative "reporters" so offensive that "getting them" seems like an interesting option? Fox news is the viscious, stupid pit bull of short-sighted conservative dogma-driven "reporting". I don't like them at all, and it's actually refreshing to see their hackels up, they deserve it IMO. Too bad it's based on gender. Unfortunate if the Playboy piece is really offensive, and I don't support anything that promotes hate, especially based on gender. BTW, I like Jerica's comments.

- BostonGuy55 June 10, 2009 4:02PM

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Article Removed

According to the paragraph above, (not the article itself since we can no longer read it) Guy Cimbalo's article stated that certain women "generate a desire for hate sex among men." It doesn't appear to suggest that these women should be raped, as Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly suggests. Without the actual article from which to gauge the context of her claim, her opinion here can have no substance and this issue is a waste of time.

- AtheistInsurgency June 10, 2009 8:04PM

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other possibility than rape?

I'll start with the caveat that I often give people way too much credit and benefit of the doubt. It may well be that the article was really about rape even if it didn't say it outright, in which case it is disgusting and to be repudiated. Obviously the article has been pulled so I can only speculate. However, given some things I've seen on TV I can only guess that there are actually people out there who do actually get turned on by getting angry. If that actually is the case, then this writer may have been imagining getting really angry because of some conservative woman's viewpoints and thinking how sexy and hot it would be to be arguing with one of them, building up sexual tension, and then releasing it by making out and having "hate sex". Does anyone else think this is even possible?

- ToddG June 10, 2009 11:29PM

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Any article with the words "hate sex"...

Any article with the words "hate sex" in it has the burden of demonstrating good intentions on its shoulders.

This article, just by the fact that it contained the words "hate sex" and the precise names of some women, did a lot of harm to everybody. These women are justifiably scared because every nutcase might be just waiting for a signal to direct its anger toward one person in particular. Every purveyor of propaganda disguised as news (as FOX is most of the time) got a justification to get even more radical. Every "leftist" is now apologizing for the faults of Cimbalo.

And Playboy demonstrated that its editorial staff is asleep on the job. Playboy was famous for its editorial positions. This blunder shows every detractor that Playboy is no longer about the articles.

- avillarrealpouw June 12, 2009 3:03PM

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