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Porn Industry Wants Bailout

This is a couple of days old but I just saw it and it was too good not to post in case someone missed it. As proof that this recession/depression is like no other, the porn industry is now complaining about hard times. In past downturns, you would see an increase in activity for the movies industry as people flocked to the theater to escape their troubles for a couple of hours. They would also buy porn, or go to porn theaters, to escape their troubles for a few minutes.

Now, Larry Flynt, of Hustler magazine fame, and Joe Francis. of Girls Gone Wild fame, have teamed up to ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout. "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."

Here's Joe Francis on the bailout he and Flynt are asking Congress for:

Full post as published by Sports Biz on January 11, 2009 (boomark / email).