GOVERNMENT BAILOUT OF THE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Hustler’s Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis Ask For Government Bailout Of The Adult Entertainment Industry
As the 2009 AVN Adult Expo opens in Las Vegas this week, Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and HUSTLER magazine publisher Larry Flynt are petitioning the newly convened 111th Congress to provide a financial bailout for the adult entertainment industry along the lines of what is being sought by the Big Three automakers, a spokesperson for Francis announced today.
Adult industry leaders Flynt and Francis sent a joint request to Congress asking for $5 billion in federal assistance, “Just to see us through hard times,” Francis said. “Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses, we feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment.”
But according to Flynt the recession has acted like a national cold shower. “People are too depressed to be sexually active,” Flynt says, “This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.”
While not to the degree felt by banks and automakers, the Adult Entertainment industry has been hit by the effects of the economic downturn. DVD sales and rentals have decreased by 22 percent in the past year as viewers turn to the internet for adult entertainment. It is estimated that roughly half of all internet users visit adult sites, with the number of unique visitors to adult websites (including GirlsGoneWild.com and Hustler.com) has grown to more than 75 million per month.
But the “saltpeter” effect remains.
“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt says, “It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.”
“The popularity of adult entertainment in America has grown steadily for the past half century,” Francis says. “Its emergence into the mainstream of popular culture suggests that 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.”
Tags: Government Bailout, Joe Francis, Larry Flynt
January 14th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I love Larry Flynt.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:35 am
MORALS AND VALUES HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT AND LOST IF THIS IS EVEN CONSIDERED. HOW ABOUT GIVING THAT 5 BILLION TO THE FAMILIIES THAT HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS AND NEED FOOD, CLOTHES ETC. ASK THOSE FAMILIES WHICH THEY HAD RATHER HAVE, A MAGIZINE, MOVIE, OR FOOD AND A HOUSE PAYMENT!
January 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
And spread it around, just what I always wanted a new XXX theatre in my neighborhood to go with the videos, toys, and lingerie… how do we do it?
January 15th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I’ve been catching phrases about a “Porn Bailout” throughout the past day or two, and thought – from the manner in which the comments were made – that the commentators were fooling around. I had to laugh anyway and, of course, thought of Larry Flynt. Who else would have the hutzpah! I just saw an MSN video news clip about the AVN Adult Expo @ Vegas and learned, in fact, that the petition to Congress is a real event. Good for you Larry, you deserve to be a multi-gazillionaire, because nothing stops you from plowing forward and revealing political hypocrisy and smut. You’re a brave man. You’ve got a great sense of humor too!
p.s If you get the money, can I have a job?
January 16th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Uhm, wow.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:01 am
While Larry Flint is OK in my opinion, I object to Joe Francis asking for a government bailout, even if it’s through a spokesperson. He is the same exact person who was indicted for tax evasion. My advice to Joe Francis is as follows: “Get the big picture! Don’t give the IRS or anyone connected to the Federal Reserve System one more reason to bust you and put you back in jail. You’ve been there before and you hated it (and yes, other than the female COs, you don’t find girls to tape anymore when you are there).” Anyway, Joe Francis should just be glad to have his freedom and stop asking for handouts. Enough said!
January 17th, 2009 at 10:32 am
There should be a bail out for the ADULT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. People need sex….! it is a sence of freedom and self expression.
The industry has to go on before we all get bombed back to the puritan days. Everybody has sex or wants to have sex, there is nothing dirty about sex. Untill some Christian says there is. Remember those who prosecute the hardest often are the gulitiest.
I support Larry Flint, the man of true art. To get a better idea why the adult industry needs a bailout. Watch (The People VS Larry Flint)