Larry Flynt Reflects On Hustler Magazine For 40th Anniversary
There are two major players in publishing that shaped the sexual revolution. Most of us know Larry Flint, the infamous and outspoken Hustler Magazine founder. The other, Mr. Hefner from Playboy, has shaped the great social and moral transformation of the Sexual Revolution. In the span of a few short decades, America (and much of the Western world) rewrote the entire system of sexual ethics based in the Hef’s philosophies. Larry Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment and even won some of them, paving the way for the revolution to happen.
The two gentlement have a lot in common, one of the two has a more strait forward approach, but both has clearly made their mark in the publishing and revolutionized the sexual history.
The less known fact is that Mr. Flynt also owns 11 totally innocent magazines that are actually part Larry Flynt Publications, but why would anyone care since they are non-contriversial. A perfect balance.
- Tips & Tricks Codebook
- Big Brother (a skateboarding magazine)
- Hot Boat
Jackie: The Last Lady of Camelot- Rap Pages
- Maternity Fashion & Beauty
- Camera & Darkroom
- Trading Cards
- Code: The Style Magazine For Men Of Color
- TurboPlay”
- Catalog Shopping In America
The porn mogul publisher Flynt spoke with HuffPost Live’s Ricky Camilleri on Tuesday about working in the porn industry for 40 years. Flynt jokingly said that one of his proudest moment was “helping all those young men make it through puberty.” Flynt also addressed how Americans have evolved in their acceptance of sex and gotten over their “knee-jerk reactions” to prurient material. When asked how he thinks Hustler pushed the envelope, Flynt had quite the response.
“When Hustler started, no one really knew what a woman looked like, and I think that what we did was let the whole nation know that a woman’s vagina had as much personality as her face,” He said. Wow!! OK, we won’t comment on that one, only Flint can get away with that…
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More about Mr. Flynt
Flynt has been embroiled in many legal battles regarding the regulation of pornography and free speech within the United States, especially attacking the Miller v. California (1973) obscenity exception to the First Amendment. He was first prosecuted on obscenity and organized crime charges in Cincinnati in 1976 by Simon Leis, who headed a local anti-pornography committee. He was sentenced to seven to 25 years and served six days; the sentence was overturned on a technicality. One argument resulting from this case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Flynt made an appearance in The People vs. Larry Flynt, playing the judge who sentenced him in that case.
Outraged by a derogatory cartoon published in Hustler in 1976, Kathy Keeton, then girlfriend of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, filed a libel suit against Flynt in Ohio. Her lawsuit was dismissed because she had missed the deadline under the statute of limitations. She then filed a new lawsuit in New Hampshire, where Hustler’s sales were very small. The question of whether she could sue there reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1983, with Flynt losing the case.[28] This case is occasionally reviewed today in first-year law school Civil Procedure courses, due to its implications regarding personal jurisdiction over a defendant.
During the proceedings in Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Flynt reportedly shouted “Fuck this court!” and called the justices “nothing but eight assholes and a token cunt” (referring to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor).[29] Chief Justice Warren E. Burger had him arrested for contempt of court, but the charge was later dismissed.
Also in 1983, he leaked an FBI surveillance tape to the media regarding John DeLorean. In the videos, when arresting DeLorean, the FBI is shown asking him whether he would rather defend himself or have “his daughter’s head smashed in.”[30] During the subsequent trial, Flynt wore an American flag as a diaper and was jailed for six months for desecration of the flag.
In 1988, Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, after being sued by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1983, over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that suggested that Falwell’s first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house. Falwell sued Flynt, citing emotional distress caused by the ad. The decision clarified that public figures cannot recover damages for “intentional infliction of emotional distress” based on parodies. After Falwell’s death, Flynt stated that despite their differences, he and Falwell had become friends over the years, adding, “I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.
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