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10 unusual facts about Larry Flynt


Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America

# "Disgust And Desire: Hustler Magazine" discusses Larry Flynt's use of pornography as a political, class-conscious act.

Dorchen Leidholdt

Dorchen Leidholdt is known for her campaigns against pornography and for her suit against Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.

From 1979 through 1983, she served as a leader and spokesperson for WAP, during which time she joined Gloria Steinem and other feminist leaders in initiating a suit against Hustler and Larry Flynt, appeared on numerous television and radio programs, organized educational events, and spoke in Washington D.C. before the U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (a.k.a. The Meese Commission) at the commission's invitation.

Hustler Casino

It is owned by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt through his El Dorado Enterprises holding company.

Jeffrey Bruce Klein

When Larry Flynt expressed an interest in distributing Mother Jones, Klein used the opportunity to do a “Born Again Porn” profile of Flynt and Hustler’s demographics, which were disclosed to be much broader than the presumed blue collar audience.

Kurt Lockwood

In 2002 Hustler magazine director Chris Wood offered him the starring role in his own line for Larry Flynt Digital in a now-defunct online series, www.trailertrash.com.

Leo J. O'Donovan

O'Donovan invited to campus various figures whose visits have sparked controversy, including Larry Flynt.

Lydia Millet

Millet's fourth novel, Everyone's Pretty (2005), is a picaresque tragicomedy about an alcoholic pornographer with messianic delusions, based partly on Millet's stint as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications.

Simon L. Leis, Jr.

This second case was basis for a 1996 movie, The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which his role was played by political operative James Carville.

Traci Topps

She has also featured as the cover model and centrefold of magazines such as Score, Gent and the Larry Flynt publication Juggs.


Adelina Tattilo

By launching Playmen, Tattilo engaged publishers like Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt in an ideological battle to liberate sexual attitudes and free them from bigotry and false moralisms.

Al Goldstein

In his 2011 book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! - of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, an American Tale of Sex and Wonder, former Screw writer and editor Mike Edison documents Goldstein's rise and fall against the successes of his peers Larry Flynt of Hustler, Bob Guccione of Penthouse, and Hugh Hefner of Playboy.

Amarillo Slim

In May 2003, Preston published his autobiography Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, where he wrote of playing poker with Larry Flynt, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon among others.

Ian Gregson

This included a controversial article on disability and sex in Larry Flynt's Hustler.