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Larry Flynt on Hustler...
...committing obscene acts. If in fact pornography is dangerous, mused Flynt, just contemplate the ravaged minds of all the psychologists and assistant D.A.'s who spend forty hours a week perusing the stuff. Snyder was not deterred: what of the people who are not "mature" enough to realize that Hustler is for the most part an indulgence in sexual fantasy, the few people who in fact might read Hustler and take some of its perversity not only to heart but out to the streets as well? Flynt shook his head with blustery impatience. "I don't publish a magazine...
Richard Neville writes in the New York Times that not the moral but the social implications of Hustler are troubling the media establishment...
...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...
...mention, pierced in places too delicate to mention, and I would go on, but I have my roommates to consider. When Nora Ephron withdrew her name from a newspaper advertisement protesting Larry Flynt's conviction, I do not think she was especially offended by the "blue collar" sensibilities of Hustler. I do not think sophisticated French pronography would have been any more palatable to her. Empress Katharine and her pedigreed white horse is not much different from Dancing Toni and her Prancing Pony...