Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr.is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications. LFP mainly produces sexually graphic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. Flynt has fought several prominent legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has unsuccessfully run for public office. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 murder attempt by Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth1 November 1942
CityMagoffin County, KY
CountryUnited States of America
I'll always be an outcast, ... I've been a lifelong Democrat and I was just trying to help them out. I didn't say that they had to agree with me on anything. But they (Democrats) can't get their act together, those schmucks.
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
I even took a bullet for the First Amendment,
First, I'd like to think that I've helped two generations get through puberty, because we're all about having fun,
You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late.
A pig has just as many rights as a man." 1984
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
Had the prosecution told me that Hustler magazine had to go, then we would be upstairs picking a jury now, ... but they didn't ask for that. They just asked for the explicit videos.
But you know, our children are our future, ... Whatever the education problems are in California, we have to fix 'em, because if California can be a beacon for the rest of the country on the rest of the social issues, why can't it be a beacon for education?
I could see all kinds of benefits coming from that, including additional tax revenue, being able to control venereal disease and a possible decrease in sexual assaults,
I am very pleased, ... The deal the prosecution offered us was the deal we always wanted.
If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.