Porn industry seeks federal bailout
Posted: 05:27 PM ET

From CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Mark Preston

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."

So far, there has been no congressional reaction to the request.





I will not be happy if they get that money!!

You beat me to it.I was just getting reading to start this post.Only in America would you find such rubbish.

I couldn't believe it when I read it. They want the taxpayer's money to help them out.

Yeah, but who's gonna hold the bucket for the bailout...ew... Oh, That's right us the taxpayers, once again...

If the Fed's are handing out money,you know everyone who can will ask for some,
but its not 'the Fed's'money, its ours.

Yeah, I dont think that bailout is a neccessity

I don't think ya want to use terms like 'beat me' when talking about the Porn industry.........
just sayin'

I like the editing.

That's right!! It's our money.

I'm doing my part for the bailout in another window.

Just wait and see.Some liberal congressman will set aside millions of dollars for the porn industry citing lost jobs and saying that it is not porn but part of the entertainment industry.Like I said only in America.

the internet is for porn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3C6CksyJ0&feature=related

Please, enough with lumping all of the liberals together.

If anyone wants to ban porn from the internet I am all for it.

Winx you know as well as I do that any stupid radical law is going to come from a Liberal.It sure isn't going to come from a Conservitive and I doubt it will be coming from a Republican.

No, I don't know that!! I think it's not true.

that is seriously one of the most awesome things i have ever read. i must copy paste this into every medium i have at my disposal! :D