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
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.