Larry Flynt speaks in North Carolina
Last night, Larry Flynt gave the keynote address for the University of North Carolina’s eighth annual symposium on First Amendment Law Review. The local alternative weekly, IndyWeek.com caught up with our fearless leader and asked him a few questions:
What did you make of the Supreme Court’s recent decision involving corporate spending in elections, which has been presented as a major First Amendment issue? A terrible thing. We know the system is corrupt because of money, but this just opened the floodgates for more money to come in. The only winner is corporations, and I think that’s sad for the American people.
What reaction do you anticipate to your participation in the symposium, and at this point in your life and career, what is your reaction to controversy? Oh, controversy, I don’t care about that. I speak on college campuses all over the world, and that’s where I feel the most comfortable. That’s where I feel I have the most influence, because these are the people who are going to be running the country.
Given your work exposing Republican sex scandals, what do you make of the numerous scandals involving Democrats, such as John Edwards? We’re an equal-opportunity offender, you know. A lot of people like to say that we’re just out to expose people’s sex lives. That’s not true. It’s hypocrisy we hate. And hypocrisy is very prevalent in American politics. It’s the one thing that threatens our entire system.
Do you feel Edwards’ actions rendered him unfit for office? I think it says a lot about his character. Look, I can understand a man having a mistress, or a man might have an affair—I don’t think that’s necessarily disqualifies you from public office, though you can argue about it. But you have to admit it was pretty sleazy, the whole mess.
Do you feel America has become a more or less conservative nation over the past few decades? Would this be a better country if someone like, say, John Kennedy couldn’t get elected because of his extramarital affairs? They [politicians' affairs] are just more publicized recently than they were then. America’s still a divided country. I don’t believe it’s generalized; it’s straight down the middle.
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Getting to know Mallory Rae Murphy
Mallory Rae Murphy is definitely a weird one. In this clip she talks about losing her virginity on camera, how she got into porn, and why she never has sex unless it’s on camera.
See more of Mallory in New to the Game # 6 which you can buy on HustlerHollywood.com
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Getting to know Katie Summers
Katie Summers stops by to tell us what her ultimate porno would be like, turns out it’s a bit frightening!
You can see more of Katie by checking out HustlerHollywood.com and buying Teens Take It Big # 2.
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HustlerWorld Book Club: Hella Nation by Evan Wright
In the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Evan Wright’s Hella Nation is a no holds barred immersion into America’s gritty underbelly. We’re a bit biased because Wright began his career with Hustler magazine as an entertainment editor. This position proved to be the perfect vantage point to begin his exploration of the American fringe, whether it’s porn stars or radical anarchist plotting to undermine corporate culture. Wright went from Hustler to Rolling Stone where his series of articles reporting on the second Gulf War became the award winning book and HBO mini-series, Generation Kill. Hella Nation compiles his essay work into a joy ride through the sometimes hellish worlds of the Aryan Brotherhood and drug murders to the entertaining worlds of the Motley Crue tour bus and Las Vegas UFC fighting. We were lucky enough to get time out of his busy schedule for an interview.
The subjects of Hella Nation range from ecoterrorists to Internet scam artists to members of the Aryan Brotherhood. What, in your mind unites the seemingly disparate subjects of Hella Nation? I always liked the term “Other America.” Before presidential candidate John Edwards imploded, he was the guy with that term “other America,” that was his term for poor Americans.
I’ve always liked the idea that we are a huge country, much more diverse than it appears on TV, and I’ve wanted to explore that county – the Other America – and find those American who totally don’t fit in and make a portrait of them before they get co-opted and turned into an ad.
Hella Nation is one journey through that Other America as I define it.
The thing about the internet is it provides an illusion of diversity. The people going online posting things about themselves are a self-selecting group. They are by definition, exhibitionists. I’ve always been attracted to people that don’t necessarily want to be written about or seen. To me that’s sort of what defines the Other America. It’s part of the county that actually doesn’t want to be found.
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HustlerWorld Interview: Amai Liu
Barely Legal babe, Amai Liu answers the age old question: Who would you rather have sex with – Jesus or Satan?
See more of Ms. Liu by joining BarelyLegal.com today!
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