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    Christie, We'll Miss You

    Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:10 PM | By Hanna Rosin
    I have always marvelled at Christie Hefner. Because of her, it was possible to believe (perhaps for way too long) in Hef's vision of porn as a "lifestyle," something for the pretty girl next door who's won the lottery. And if you read and loved Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife, as I did, you would have in your head the image of Hef as an American pioneer of a sort, instead of the cartoon he later became. Christie was always unabashed about presiding over his empire: She claimed to be a feminist and a businesswoman and an intellectual and not see the contradictions. In that way, she was from the '80s superwoman age of feminism. Now that she's gone, porn is just back to its dismal, daily grind.
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