Pr0n wants a bailout too, Larry Flynt and Joe Francis go to Washington

Larry Flynt
Porn purveyors Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are seeking a government bailout, according to TMZ. The two high profile adult film makers are going to Washington to ask for equal consideration for the adult entertainment business. If the government can bail out the banking and auto industry, they reason, it’s surely open to ensuring that Americans can continue to receive quality adult-oriented escapism.

Joe Francis and Larry Flynt claim the economy has made America’s sexual appetite go limp, so they’re going to the one place where sex is always rampant — Congress.

Flynt (the “Hustler” guy) and Francis (the “Girls Gone Wild” dude) are asking the government for a $5 billion bailout, claiming the adult entertainment industry has taken a huge shot to the face because of the downturn — citing the fact that XXX DVD sales are down 22% from a year ago.

“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.”

Francis sees his industry like the big three automakers, only BIGGER: “Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration.”

[From TMZ]

This is a calculated move by Flynt to get publicity and highlight the absurdity of the government bailouts. It’s not a serious proposition and is a smart way to emphasize the importance of porn to the US economy. By most accounts porn is thriving in this struggling economy and isn’t suffering like other industries. It still faces some, ahem, stiff competition from free online sources. X-Tube has plenty of scintillating videos for free and works the same way that YouTube does in that higher quality amateur videos quickly become popular. Competition online is fierce and unrelenting, but porn has shown that it’s willing to adjust to the market in a way that music and film has only done reluctantly:

Relatively small, fragmented, and unaccustomed to outside investment, the U.S. porn industry (which generated roughly $12 billion in 2007) is some what buffered from today’s credit crunch, but it has its own problems. Video sales have been falling by 15 percent a year since 2005, and online content doesn’t deliver the returns it used to, now that Web sites such as RedTube and PornHub basically give it away. Struggling companies need investors to help right their operations, and those that are thriving in a brutal market need funding for growth.

Enter Koenig and AdultVest. He sees the porn downturn as temporary and believes that technological improvements will trigger a turnaround. One example: iPorn, a start-up in AdultVest’s portfolio that is developing an application to deliver porn to the Apple iPod. “The industry’s not going anywhere,” Koenig says. “You’ve got 6 billion people on the planet,” he laughs, “and they’re all horny.”

[From The Atlantic via The Huffington Post]

Porn isn’t going anywhere, and if these guys are hurting they’ll just suck it up and continue to produce trashy content as always. I wouldn’t care if either of them went under, especially Francis, but it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

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19 Responses to “Pr0n wants a bailout too, Larry Flynt and Joe Francis go to Washington”

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  1. Jane says:

    Why do people use the term Pr0n for Porn? I don’t get it.

  2. kate says:

    joe francis looks like a tranny trying to look like a frat dude.

  3. gg says:

    These two remind me of the blob characters in that Mucinex tv advert.

  4. Annie says:

    ROFL.

    GG Flynt and Francis.

  5. MSat says:

    gg, those aren’t blobs, they’re boogers! And it is the absolute best description of these two creepazoids ever! LOL!

  6. Codzilla says:

    gg: That’s priceless! I relayed your comment onto my husband who nearly spit up his ice cream from laughing so hard.

  7. MRS BROWN says:

    Joe Francis is low enough to suck an earth worm’s dick

  8. DLR in Canada says:

    omg, are you fricking serious? the adult entertainment industry needs a bail-out? i am gobsmacked. what the hell?

  9. Vern says:

    When did Bobby Trendy start hanging out with Larry?

  10. Christina X says:

    Do these two idiots live under a f-king rock?

    Sex is crammed down your throat every which direction you turn!

    Get your priorities straight, you douchebags!

    GG, I laughed so hard at your Mucinex reference.

  11. me says:

    google pr0n and you’ll get your answer

  12. gg says:

    :: curtseys ::

    heehee thanks everybody!

  13. Ned says:

    Larry Flynt is wrong to even get near the lowest of them all- Joe Francis.

    There is a difference between paying people money to do porn or pose naked (as sad as it may be) and getting teen girls drunk and pressuring them to humiliate themself while they are drunk and making money out of that while ruining their lives.

    Flynt should disassociate from that disgusting beast that Francis is.

    May Francis rot in jail for the rest of his life for the things he did.

  14. kelly says:

    Those photos look like 2/3 of an especially brutal “fuck-marry-kill” challenge.

  15. Autumm Leaves says:

    From golden showers to golden parachutes. From hand jobs to hand outs. I care more about the crap I took last night than bailing out the porn industry. Screw ’em.

  16. Gina says:

    Oh brother.

    These two are like 2 scumbagish peas in a pod. I recommend these 2 put themselves in a ‘Douchebags Gone Wild’ video and try to market that. Their only audience will be trannies, prostitutes, and politicians. Then, they should do a Pay-Per-View special hosted by Howard Stern where the 2 of them duel to the death. And if we’re lucky, they’ll both kill each other. The world would be a much safer place for children if cretans like them did not exist.

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