Post by t-bob on Feb 11, 2021 12:51:30 GMT -5
The Obit Page: Larry Flynt, publisher of the raunchy porn mag Hustler and campaigner for First Amendment freedom who was paralyzed in an assassination attempt, has died at age 78. Flynt who was sued, prosecuted for obscenity, jailed for contempt, and gagged for obscene outbursts in court, thrived on the controversy.
Bad taste was his business and he was good at it.
He published frontal nudity of both men and women as well as crude cartoons. Deriding the soft porn of his more staid competitors Playboy and Penthouse, he once told an interviewer, “I sensed that raw sex was what men wanted. And I was right.”
Bad taste was his business and he was good at it.
He published frontal nudity of both men and women as well as crude cartoons. Deriding the soft porn of his more staid competitors Playboy and Penthouse, he once told an interviewer, “I sensed that raw sex was what men wanted. And I was right.”
