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Flynt Peeking Into Presidents’ Bedrooms for New Book

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Posted on Mar 17, 2010
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Pornographer, author: Hustler founder Larry Flynt looks askance in this 2007 photo.

If ever there was anyone cut out for the job of researching presidential peccadilloes—while also looking into the flings of our nation’s first ladies—it quite possibly would be esteemed porn purveyor Larry Flynt. The Hustler impresario is working on a book on America’s sexed-up presidents and their spouses with a titillating title: “One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents and First Ladies Shaped America.”  —KA

The Washington Post via Gawker:

“It’s not just a book about who slept with whom,” says Flynt’s agent, Andrew Stuart. “It’s a much larger and sweeping account of how the sex lives of American presidents have had a tangible effect on American policy and history.”

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By Partizannka, May 21, 2010 at 7:14 am Link to this comment

Why people are so sex-crazy nowadays?? All the talk is about bedrooms, bathrooms and shower cubicles... Come on!!! What is wrong with you guys???

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By Leefeller, March 18, 2010 at 6:44 am Link to this comment

I really do not care about presidents bedrooms and what they do in them, I would recommended viewing the bathroom, so we would see where lobbyists come from!

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By NYCartist, March 18, 2010 at 3:55 am Link to this comment

He also had a free speech case. I googled to see how rarely he is photo’d so his wheelchair is in view.  As a wheelchair user (due to ME/CFS), I notice how omitting wheelchairs continues our “invisibility” in the media.

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