Larry Flynt asks feds for porn industry bail out

By Chal Pivik
January 7th, 2009 @ 5:06 PM Breaking News, Entertainment

LA-based Hustler Publications owner Larry Flynt, along with Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis, said today they will ask Congress for $5 billion for the sagging adult entertainment industry, the bulk of which is produced in the San Fernando Valley.

Francis said, “The US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people… We went from a system of laissez-faire economics where the government let’s the invisible hand control the market, and now the government gets involved and corrects things and we have a $13 billion dollar industry that’s very in need of correcting.”

While some may scoff at the notion of yet another taxpayer-financed attempt to harden one more slackening sector of the US economy, Flynt said, “People are too depressed to be sexually active… It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”

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7 Comments so far

  1. Jason DeFillippo (jason) on January 7th, 2009 @ 5:40 pm

    “People are too depressed to be sexually active…" is bullshit. They’re screwing away just fine but screwing is free and maybe they just don’t want to buy your shitty porn anymore Larry…


  2. Annika Barranti (annika) on January 7th, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

    I think this is a brilliant act of satire.


  3. frazgo on January 7th, 2009 @ 7:50 pm

    absolutely brilliant.


  4. edwoodca on January 7th, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

    Agreed. Great satire.


  5. WILL CAMPBELL (willcampbell) on January 8th, 2009 @ 5:55 am

    You’re killing me LARRY!


  6. Travis Koplow (travis) on January 8th, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

    I really think we need to refer to this particular wanna-be bailout as a "stimulus package."


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