''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.''
If anyone is deserving of taxpayers money, surely it has to be the porn industry!
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