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...this claim was refuted by documents obtained by The Crimson regarding the planning of Flynt??s visit...
...documents show that Flynt??s agent, Kim Dower, contacted the American Constitution Society (ACS), the liberal law and policy group, and asked them to host his appearance at Harvard. Brianna J. MacDonald, the ACS publicity chair, wrote in an e-mail to Dower that her group was “hesitant” about inviting Flynt “without allowing for other voices added to the discussion to expand the debate...
...Calling him “first and foremost a capitalist,” Dines said that Flynt??s “staff is intensely reactionary and intensely right wing.” She went on to argue that pornography is corrosive because it distorts women’s sexuality and turns them into sex objects...
Flynt attained national notoriety with his 1988 Supreme Court triumph over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt??s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...
Many non-students were also in the audience. Abigail B. Satinsky, an employee at the Hi-Rise Bakery, echoed the sentiments of many on Flynt??s appearance...