During the controversy surrounding Bill Clinton's impeachment, Flynt publicly announced his sympathy for Clinton, and offered cash rewards to anyone with information regarding sexual impropriety on the part of the president's critics. Throughout the 1980s, Flynt used his magazine as a podium with which to launch vitriolic, obscenity-laden attacks on the Reagan Administration and the Religious Right, and even published a short-lived political magazine called "Rebel". Flynt and "Hustler" are also noted for having a more populist and working-class outlook than the more upscale-oriented "Playboy" and "Penthouse".
#Hustler magazine covers from 2001 free
This distinguishes it somewhat from other pornographic magazines, which generally embrace progressive ideas about free speech and morality issues, but remain conservative, libertarian, or neutral on other matters such as the economy. "Hustler" has long had a left-wing editorial policy on economics, foreign policy, and social issues. There is also a section called "Beaver Hunt" which features photos of amateurs sent in for a cash prize-a similar idea to "Gallery"'s "Girl Next Door." In keeping with "Hustler" 's focus on the seamier and less romantic aspects of sexuality, Honey Hooker, unlike Fanny and Wanda, was explicitly portrayed as being a prostitute. This feature was designed to compete against "Playboy"'s Little Annie Fanny and "Penthouse"'s Wicked Wanda. She might be in American colonial times one month or in a Super-Bowl locker room the next. In each installment, Honey would have graphic sexual encounters with any male (or female) she ran across. In the 1970s, "Hustler" ran a comic strip feature entitled " Honey Hooker". Goldman and Dawson (who later became known as the "Most Hated Man In Porn") were also charged with inventing all of the "Letters To The Editor." They then made up the responses to these letters, employing a multitude of pseudonyms. The column was alternatively written by various Hustler staff writers, including Jim Dawson, Lee Quarnstrom, Michael Stott, Jerry Kindela, and Stuart Goldman. An illustration showing a photograph of the criticized person's head emerging from the anus of a cartoon donkey is shown alongside the article. Similar defenses have been advanced on "Hustler" 's behalf by more scholarly writers, most notably Laura Kipnis in her essay "(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust", published in 1993.Īnother feature of "Hustler" is a column called "Asshole of the Month." In every monthly issue of the magazine, some public figure is selected for severe criticism as that month's asshole. While such material has earned "Hustler" much criticism from feminists and other critics, Flynt and his supporters defend the cartoons as bawdy social satire. One long-running cartoon, " Chester the Molester", presented the ongoing misadventures of a child molester in his attempts to coerce young children into sexual activity with him. Gang rape, botched abortions, incest, child sexual abuse and racism have all been featured at one time or another as recurring motifs in the cartoons. Of particular infamy are "Hustler" 's cartoons, which have often featured blatantly violent and misogynistic themes. The chain's flagship store is on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Larry Flynt's "Hustler" empire also includes the Hustler casino in Gardena, California, as well as Hustler Hollywood, a chain of Hustler stores that sells adult-oriented videos, clothing, magazines and sex toys. It frequently depicts hardcore themes, such as the use of sex toys, penetration and group sex. Today, "Hustler" is still considered more explicit than such well known competitors as "Playboy" and " Penthouse". "Hustler" was one of the first major men's magazines in the United States to break the taboo that existed in the early seventies by showing much more explicit views of the female genitalia than other popular magazines of the time such as the relatively modest " Playboy". The magazine grew from a shaky start to a peak circulation of around 3 million (current circulation is below 500,000). It was a step forward from the "Hustler Newsletter" and "The Hustler For Today's Man" which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. It was first published in July 1974 by Larry Flynt. "Hustler" is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at heterosexual men and published in the United States. Image_caption = June 2008 "Hustler" cover
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