Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.
Joe Francis, creator of the “Girl’s Gone Wild” video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.
Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.
XXX DVD sales have taken a hit – about a 22% hit, according the TMZ.
“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. “It’s time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”
Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he’ll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.
“Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration,” Francis is quoted as saying on TMZ.
You keep mentioning me. Obsessing can’t be good for you.
um, I actually could see sales for Hustler and GGW going down considering they’re using an outdated selling model. I’m pretty sure you won’t see ohhhhhhh BangBros or Blacks on Blondes on here because they distribute through that newfangled technology that just came out, the intarwebs.
besides GWG is boring and the girls in Hustler are usually pretty nasty
Bailout Porn . . . let’s see
Bailout the big banking firms – they in turn take exclusive “retreats” at facilities most of us can only dream of . . . increase foreclosures, kick families into the streets, triple credit card interest rates for no apparent reason – because they can, all in the name of profit at any cost. You know these “people” have our best interest at heart.
Bailout the big three Detroit trash companies . . . they in turn will decide what America wants to drive, just like the past 30+ years – ignore the markets, blame the American workers, etc. . . . the results speak for themselves – unreliable, lousy fuel mileage (with a few notable exceptions), built in foriegn countries for slave labor wages, cheapest parts possible, no worker benefits, no EPA, few parts of US origin . . . isn’t NAFTA wonderful? It could be if applied fairly and correctly.
Maybe we should bailout the current for profit health care system . . . Let’s see . . . Nixon liked the Kaiser Healthcare model of for profit health care, made it the US National Model for Healthcare (yes this is how our current mess started in the early 1970s – before this it was all not for profit and healthcare was affordable with or without health insurance), flash 35 years into the future . . . the US has the best healthcare money can buy – if you have money . . . people – not just the poor, but middle – upper class find themselves uninsurable, ouside of group health care – work, or medicare (retired – disabled – which is at least a two year battle to receive in itself) for health care due to medical conditions – lowers healthcare company’s profits . . these same healthcare companies CEOs made close to $1 billion in salary + benefits in 2007. Yes we need to bailout the healthcare companies, the CEO’s and their crony staffs need new shoes. Lose your job, too young to retire – then do your country a favor, save your family from financial ruin, and die – that’s the message being sent. Strange – we are the only industrialized country I know of that assumes the disabled applicant is a liar (receives no benefits) until the individual can prove their disability – usually through court – lawyers, lose your life savings, the house, job, everything in the meantime. Every other industrialized country automatically assumes you are disabled on your word unless it can be proven otherwise – benefits are immediate.
Bailout porn . . . well at least I know I will receive a tangible return of some possible benefit here, as for the previous three mentioned bailouts . . . our “average citizen” return on the investment . . . bend over, you’re going to love this . . .
Or maybe, just maybe the ordinary US citizen may just need a little help from our own government. Not a handout but a hand up. After all, who, in the end, will be handed the check? But no – can’t do that . . . it could be socialist . . . God forbid.
Wake up people . . . agree or not take back your government. Profit, yes – but maximizing at all cost?
This is an industry transition and will not get a bailout.
Everyone is migrating to the amateur stuff — the wives’, girlfriends’, MILFs’ and neighbours’ porn. Maybe that is greener porn? It grass roots porn anyway.
Also referring to the above discussion, the word “Anal” is being phased out of porn. It too closely resembles “Analysis.” And wall street ruined that word for good.
Lower the legal porn age to 15 and watch sales skyrocket.