Porn Industry Seeks Federal Bailout

[Lunar]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Another major American industry is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.

“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”

Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry's survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people."

“We should be delivering [the request] by the end of today to our congressmen and [Secretary of the Treasury Henry] Paulson asking for this $5 billion dollar bailout,” he told CNN Wednesday.


Flynt and Francis concede the industry itself is in no financial danger — DVD sales have slipped over the past year, but Web traffic has continued to grow.

But the industry leaders said the issue is a nation in need. "People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in the statement. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It's time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."

[MSUfan]

Please.

The Porn Industry is America's most resilient industry ever.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

It is a pleasure to see them languishing. They are a scourge on society.

[Lunar]

It is a pleasure to see them languishing.

They're not.  In the article they admit they're doing fine

[MSUfan]

It is a pleasure to see them languishing. They are a scourge on society.

How else would you like people to take out their sexual energy?

[RIP Robert H Bork]

It is a pleasure to see them languishing.

They're not.  In the article they admit they're doing fine

Then why would they need bailouts??

[Lunar]

It is a pleasure to see them languishing.

They're not.  In the article they admit they're doing fine

Then why would they need bailouts??

It's a stunt.  Even if they needed a bailout, they know Congress would never give it to them.

[Matt Damon™]

Reminder that societies with widely accepted porn/sexual 'deviance' such as Japan have significantly lower rates of rape/other sexual violence.

[JohnFKennedy]

[Insert shafted joke here]

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

This is why I opposed the initial bailouts.  It leads to stupid mentalities like this.

[Torie]

I was sure this came from Scrappleface or The Onion, but apparently not. Larry really does have his hand out for a hand job. 

[danny]

I'd trust them more with the money than with the big 3.

[AkSaber]

Well, we know if Clinton was still President they'd get their bailout.

[Lunar]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/07/porn-bailout/

[Judäischen Volksfront]

But shouldn't Adam Smith's Invisible Free Market Hand solve this problem?

[Lief]

Well, any bailout package will have to be large enough to fill whatever financial holes have been exposed in the porn industry since the financial crisis erupted all over America's face.

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

[IDS Judicial Overlord John Dibble]

Well they can go fuck themselves.

I'm fine with that, so long as they tape it.

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

Hey, be nice to Phil.  

[dead0man]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

He needs to die in a fire.

[Lunar]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

I believe the actual videos involve a lot more lesbian sex than the commercials indicate

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

I believe the actual videos involve a lot more lesbian sex than the commercials indicate

You believe based on guessing or based on experience?

[frihetsivrare]

The porn industry needs a stimulus package.

[Lunar]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

I believe the actual videos involve a lot more lesbian sex than the commercials indicate

You believe based on guessing or based on experience?

Haha.  I made similar comments about them seeming lame to a frat friend once who corrected me.

[All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.]

Eh. The Girls Gone Wild guy is such a punk. He doesn't produce actual porn anyway, just dull crap.

I believe the actual videos involve a lot more lesbian sex than the commercials indicate

You believe based on guessing or based on experience?

Haha.  I made similar comments about them seeming lame to a frat friend once who corrected me.

I've seen them before. They are lame. I prefer actual porn. I guess you could consider me a porn snob of sorts.