Site Meter Reflections on Playboy: An Australian blogger after my own heart

March 13, 2007

An Australian blogger after my own heart

Hugh Hefner will reportedly marry Holly Madison, one of the “girls next door” on the reality television show of that name, before the end of the year. Researching the story at Technorati, I stumbled on another blogger who relies on evolutionary psychology to understand the Playboy phenomenon. In her blog for The Sydney Morning Herald, Sam and the City, Samantha Brett suggests that Hefner may be motivated by a male biological clock:
Now before you snort on your cornflakes at the thought of a men’s version of the internal timebomb (which forces single gals way into their 30s and 40s to become a little more desperate than their younger counterparts), let’s take a moment to look at the male side of the commitment coin...

Scientifically speaking, research has proven that men do in fact suffer from a ticking clock. According to Dr. Harry Fisch, director of the Male Reproductive Center at Columbia University in New York City and author of The Male Biological Clock, after men turn thirty, their testosterone levels decline at a rate of around 1 per cent per year. Fisch also reckons that men older than 35 are twice as likely to be infertile as men 25 and younger!

While other experts surmise that a more accurate age is around 40-50 years old, either way, confirmed bachelors with birthdays around the corner should start scouting around.

Yet despite the warnings, many men still prefer to continue on with a lifestyle of barhopping, bedhopping and boozing over leaving it all behind for a life of potty training and nappy changing. (Who wouldn’t?)

So what makes men change?

I still wasn’t sure. Yet I was almost knocked off my seat when my phone snorted the arrival of a text message the other day from a girlfriend telling me that her 30-something ex-commitment-phobic-boyfriend had finally gotten engaged. [ellipsis in the original]
The Playboy Blog has recently implied some other questions for EP. The magazine’s staffers in Santa Monica, just down the hall from studios where Playmates and celebrities pose naked, spend most of their free time gathered around a high-tech ant farm. Is the sort of man who reads Playboy usually a dork posing as a smooth operator? Or will female beauty always tend to scare men a little, like a bigger-than-expected bong hit? Maybe it’s a question for economics instead: did the same Hayekian spontaneous order that created Playboy also build a firewall around the hotties? Enquiring minds like mine want to know.

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Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 3:12 PM

  • Anonymous Jetting Through Life left this comment at April 1, 2007 6:51 AM  
    You know, my husband was telling me about Hef and Holly. I didn't believe it.

    I hope you are doing well!

    JTL

  • Blogger Brian Sorgatz left this comment at April 1, 2007 8:58 AM  
    Welcome back, Miss Moneypenny.

  • Anonymous R M Roxinger left this comment at June 17, 2007 12:47 PM  
    Whether reports of Hef & Holly planning to marry are true or not, I don't think they need to. Commitment is commitment, whether formalized or not. Besides, as I remember reading, although Hef & Kimberly Conrad are long separated, they never officially divorced. And that marriage was Hef's 2nd. So if I were in his shoes, I'd leave well enough alone.

  • Anonymous R M Roxinger left this comment at October 11, 2008 1:17 PM  
    Looks like all prospects of marriage are gone now. I read in my city's newspaper yesterday that Hef & Holly have split. Apparently she wanted marriage & children, but he was unable or unwilling to provide either. So I wonder which of the remaining 2 ladies will share Hef's bed now: Bridget or Kendra?

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