Bunny Tales by Izabella St. James

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Bunny Tales by Izbabella St. James Book Review A lot of people judge the girls that are girlfriends of Hugh Hefner as shallow money seeking floozies. In the book Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion, Izabella St.James explains that there is much more to the Playboy Mansion than the cliché that everyone thinks. She tells a story about how the how the girls aren’t there just having sex for money, but how these girls fall into the trap of the allure of the playboy mansion. Izabella explains to her readers in the first parts of her novel that she grew up in a wholesome household with her parents in Poland. Though she had to move to Canada because of the terrible communism causing the oppression of Poland’s people, she always had the love and support of her parents. She grew up to graduate college and attend Pepperdine Law School in Malibu. So then you may ask, how did a well educated, well traveled, supported young woman wind up becoming the girlfriend of the sexually free magazine founder known as Hugh Hefner? The answer is that she wanted a chance to do something completely out of the ordinary with her life. But is she entering a world of lust for money just because she wants something new in her life? If you asked the Girlfriends of Hugh Hefner if they were sex workers, they would probably bitch you out. But if you really think about it, they are. Sex work is any occupation having to do with sex (class lecture 10/5). Yes, they say that sexual participation is not mandatory, but if they didn’t participate Hef could argue that they aren’t participating in the bedroom and not give them their weekly allowance. So, they all did it. So there it is, these girls were essentially having sex for money. But why is it wrong? These girls were technically Hugh’s girlfriends so isn’t it like any other relationship? As Zelizer says in her article The

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