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[Insert Sexual Pun Here]
CNN tactfully went with headlines talking about stimulus.
Pornographers, euphemistically the ‘adult entertainment industry,’ or for those inclined to look suspiciously on corporations ‘Big Porn,’ have asked Congress for a bailout of their own. As thought-provoking rabble-rouser and publisher of Hustler magazine Larry Flynt put it, “Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.” Joe Francis, the CEO of Girls Gone Wild, and Flynt’s partner in testimony before Congress said “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.”
And why not? Why should bailouts only be issued to industries that can afford to buy representatives in Congress some industries rather than others, when a great many are being affected by economic downturn?
Addendum: One reader wittily suggests: “Public Funds for Private Parts”
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