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...distinction between the pornography of "servants" (blue collar workers) and "employers" (the educated elite) is not as great as Neville would have us believe. When Esquire magazine asked skin book publishers to describe their readership, here were two of the replies...
When we started we hoped for the blue-collar audience. But a recent demographic study showed a different reader: a lot of college students and professionals. That kind of blew our theory...
...over twenty million dollars in profit.) Hustler, in fact, celebrates the myth of the hard-drivin' fast-cussin' mean-fisted truckdrivers. They are the last American heroes, a lone breed of tough guys blazing down the pike at a speed that would turn a "pansyass" as white as his collar. Flynt talks slowly, firmly, and with a touch of impatience as if he were explaining a simple concept to a classroom of distracted children...
...journey from Ulysses to Hustler involves more than a move from literature to smut, from words to images. It involves the transition from the preoccupation of an educated minority to the everyday fantasies of the blue-collar majority. Hustler was launched by a man without any formal education...Now it is the "servants"--the busboys, the farmers, truck drivers and men on the assembly line--who are on the receiving end of censorship, whose erotic tastes are repulsive to a bewildered literary establishment...
...attack their techniques savagely with humorous remarks or gestures. Policemen should be employed to go out and gun down all the easels that cluttered up the beautiful countryside, he remarked one day. And once, on passing an Impressionist canvas whose subject was buried in mist, he silently turned his collar...