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Hustle Magazine’s Owner Sends 535 Copies Monthly to Congress — And It Is Glorious
Why passion matters.
For all his alleged moral depravity, Larry Flynt demonstrated a number of redeeming qualities.
After being shot by a serial killer and paralyzed from the waist down, he was kinder and happier than many of us would have been.
At the trial for the man who shot him, Larry begged the courts not to execute the man saying, “A government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.” But his killer was in fact executed at a later date (he’d killed 8 people and probably more).
No, Larry was not a perfect character. He had a long list of mistakes, many of which he later regretted; others, he denied. Yet there was no foe he resented and waged war with more than conservative lawmakers in Congress.
And it makes sense. Larry Flynt launched Hustler Magazine in 1974. For those who don’t know of it, no, it isn’t a magazine for gambling or business hustlers — in the technical sense.
Hustler was the first large-scale pornographic magazine and it caused an absolute uproar when it first hit shelves in the 1970s. His aforementioned shooter, a white supremacist…
