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Flynt Trolls for Capitol Hill Sex Tales

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Posted on Jun 3, 2007

Hustler founder and rabble-rouser Larry Flynt is once again offering money—$1 million, to be exact—to anyone who can prove that they have had an illicit sexual encounter with a member of Congress—the same strategy he used to try to root out Capitol Hill philanderers during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment ordeal.


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“Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?” read a full-page advertisement taken out by Larry Flynt’s pornographic magazine in Sunday’s Washington Post.

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By Chris, June 4, 2007 at 11:06 am Link to this comment
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It seems like most of the people who want to “moralize” American’s private sexual lives are either guilty of it themselves, or they claim to be “saving the children”.

Tom Foley spent a lot of time working to pass “child abuse” legislation (as well as other things, such as harassing and intimidating legitimate naturist family organizations, because of the involvement of their children), and guess what, he himself is fascinated by boy teenage pages! He potentially will be suffering under legislation which he helped initiate…

Father Bruce Ritter, prominent member of Ronald Reagan’s “Meese Commission on Pornography”, and founder of Covenant House, an organization designed to help young male hustlers and runaways get off the street (and a harsh and outspoken critic of the adults who were sexually involved with them) eventually had to step down from running the organization he founded, because of accusations of sexual involvement by two former teenage males who had stayed at Covenant House.

And the right wing conservative Christian campaigning efforts of former White House favorite, “pro-family” Reverend Ted Haggard, against pro-gay legislation, who ends up being unable to stay away from male prostitutes.

And Reverend Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, both of whom were sexually involved in a big way outside their marriages. Swaggart, in particular, outspokenly comdemned “fornication.” Yet he himself had a particular thing for Mexican hookers and hotels in the southern California town of Indio…

And what about former FBI founder, and director, J. Edgar Hoover, who kept records of, and hounded and harassed homosexuals, and sent his men in missions to ferret out people who produced pornography? He had a decades-long relationship with the effemminent Clyde Tolson, was rumored to like cross-dressing, and had his own very own “Blue Room” at the Bureau, from which he could peruse, at his own leisure, the pornography his men in the field had seized. People who likely had their lives ruined for the “crime” of having filmed humans copulating, so the heralded founder of the FBI could privately get his jollies…

No doubt about it. The biggest moralizers are guilty of the very things they condemn (and hunt and hound) other people for being.

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By GW=MCHammered, June 4, 2007 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
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In a More Perfect Union, the FBI would offer a standing reward. And “sex” would include Lobbyists in-congress.

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By jhm, June 4, 2007 at 5:18 am Link to this comment
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Adultery isn’t “illicit,”  would this still count?

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By Tom Doff, June 4, 2007 at 4:37 am Link to this comment
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WOW, there are going to be an awful lot of sheep and other critters retiring to mansions along the banks of the Potomac soon.

Not to mention male hooker/transvestites, sodomically-inclined pre-teen pages, virginal British domatrixes, and ouzo-soaked Greek sailors.

This would be a good time to invest in D.C. property, before it becomes so high-class it’s out-of-reach.

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By THOMAS BILLIS, June 4, 2007 at 12:58 am Link to this comment
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Larry stop if everybody comes forward we will lose 90% of our government.Only the people no one wants to fuck will remain.On second thought you go Larry better an ugly capable 10% then whats there now.

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By DennisD, June 3, 2007 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
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Larry, don’t you think our corporate Congressional whores would be above that. They don’t “buy”, they’re too busy selling themselves daily.

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By MARIAM RUSSELL, June 3, 2007 at 12:07 pm Link to this comment
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If we, the public, paid no attention, neither would Mr. Flynt.

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By QuyTran, June 3, 2007 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment

Just check the log books from Madam Deborah Palfrey. Don’t waste you money in vain !

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