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NavyGuy
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Originally posted by mr kablammo:
Burn in Hell mo'fo'. BURN!


I'm sure we were all disappointed to find out those letters sent in weren't real, and our chances of an orgy with a bunch of buxom coeds were very slim, but hoping he burns in Hell is a bit much.


Ummm, I beg to differ. College was one of the best 5 years of my life.


Can't say that college life netted much "action" for me as I was a commuter so no dorm parties. However, just walking around and being in class with women who are possibly more horny than you are... well let's say it was interesting, not that our boy Flynt had anything to do with it.

I always thought of him as somewhat of a scuzz-ball, but reading about his bio, he actually had a little going for him. Not that I'd want someone of his ilk to date my daughter. Eek


Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

-D.H. Lawrence
 
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My take was always He was a piece of shit, and not because he was a pornographer.
 
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As a young guy, I appreciated "Hustler's" quality of photography and fetching women without pants. Much better than "Penthouse" dreamy, pretentious crap. That said, the world is not better for Larry Flynt having been in it. Pushing envelopes is fine, Flynt overestimated himself to our detriment.



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Hmmm, I thought he died years ago. Hadn't heard his name mentioned in years.
 
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I grew up in Cincinnati in the 70's. Hamilton County prosecutor Simon Leis charged him for obscenity for Hustler magazine.

Flynt mailed a pamphlet, maybe 15 pages of war photos of dead soldiers to thousands of Hamilton county residents.
Very graphic! To ask the question "What is obscene?"
In the movie The people vs Larry Flynt, Larry Flynt played the role of Judge Morrissey and James Carville played the role
of Simon Leis.



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He outlived the guy who shot him by more than seven years.
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Didn't he invent the scratch 'n sniff???
No, that was Betty Crocker, but then, things went horriby wrong.

BTW, sometime in the 1970s, Hustler magazine published a particular photograph, in order to illustrate a point. The photo was a shot of a corpse, some hapless man who had been killed in a war somehwere in Africa IIRC. He had been shot in the forehead with (apparently) a rifle and the shot had opened up his face, pushing one eye to the side. It was gruesome, with this cavernous black hole in the middle of his forehead. This photo had been previously pubished in some US periodical- it may have been Soldier of Fortune, but the Hustler reference didn't say.

Flynt's point was that this photograph depicted a greater obscenity than anything ever published within the pages of Hustler magazine, yet, no one batted an eye when it was previously published. No one picketed the home or offices of the publisher. No one testified before Congress, nothing.

And yet, let Flynt show pics of female pubic hair and labias, and, oh, this was the beginning of the end times! I'd say that the man had a valid point.
 
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In 2021 the notion of free speech almost seems quaint, particularly with the big tech oligarchs and their elected ruling class abettors. The mob doesn't live in a vacuum, they're a sanctioned tool of coercion.

To put Flynt on some free speech pedestal is akin to doing so for the Skokie Nazis. There's the law and the spirit of the law. At one time a blurry line, today increasingly distinct for those "qualified" to judge.

Like the Nazis, Flynt's legacy is open to examination.



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