Metal Reviews

Mohandas Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi called his grandfather a failure for doing anything for the dalits of the Hindu caste system

He never said anything of that sort. You are a fucking idiot.

He said that he didn't do enough for the lower caste i,e the Dalits, in other words a failure.

Maybe you should just get the cock out of your ears.

I feel bad for the dude whose cock would fit in someone's ears.

Speaking of porn moguls, this jackass: www.salon.com/2012/12/02/hunter_moore_i_lied/

Unless those ears belong to Will Smith...

That Moore fuck sounds like a class act. Let's face it, the world would be a better place without bottom-feeding scum like him and all the other parasitical skin merchants.

Whenever I hear about those dirtbags (Goldstein, Flynt, etc) I always think of a grub squirming in the sunlight.

I got a soft spot for my Cincy boy, Flynt.

He lost his own virginity at the age of nine, to a chicken. He describes penetrating its egg sack, and how “when I let the chicken go, it started towards the main house, staggering, squawking and bleeding” – so he immediately killed it. Did you feel bad for the chicken? “What? No. It was a” – long breath, gasp – “chicken.”

Then I describe “The Naked and the Dead”, a Hustler spread in which a woman is forcibly shaved, raped, and apparently killed in a concentration camp. Who, I ask, finds that sexy? “That is satire. That’s what I went to the United States supreme court for. It was a landmark judgment. It was a unanimous decision. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, one of the most conservative justices, said sometimes things are done under the name of the First Amendment that are less than admirable but that doesn’t give the government the right to suppress it.”

I’m not arguing it should be suppressed, I explain. I support your right to say it – just as I have a right to respond by saying it’s vile and asking you why you did it. “It’s satire,” he says, testily. But what’s it satirising? “What?” he says. What’s it satirising? “It’s satirising the whole idea of a pretty girl being executed.” But how is that a concept that needs satirising? How is that even a concept at all? “It wasn’t done as any kind of statement,” he says. But you just said it was a statement – a satirical one. “There wasn’t any malice in it,” he says. Really? It’s a non-malicious concentration camp?

These shoots he refuses to defend seem to embody the contradictions of the porn age – there’s greater sexual freedom for some, and a greater celebration of sexual violence against others.

Well, eviscerated that notion.

The most serious (and most fiercely contested) charge against Flynt – politely ignored by the supposed liberals who queue up to champion him as an icon of freedom – is worse still. It is that he was a child molester. I decide to raise the topic sideways at first. I ask about a comic strip he ran in Hustler for 13 years, called “Chester The Molester”. It featured an old man who, in each strip, would trick prepubescent or adolescent girls into pleasuring him. A typical cartoon shows a little girl in a hiked-up dress hurtling down a playground slide, while Chester the Molester is waiting at the bottom with his tongue hanging out. The man who drew the cartoon, Dwaine Tinsley, was convicted of raping his own daughter, Alison, and of forcing her to take birth control pills from her 13th birthday onwards. He served two years in prison – and Hustler continued to publish the cartoons drawn from his jail cell.

Flynt looks irritated. “Dwaine Tinsley was a genius,” he says. “He was at one time in America in the Seventies and Eighties the most brilliant and recognised cartoonist in America… I liked him. He was an old country boy, you know.” What would you say to his daughter about why you employed him? “He was released.” Yes, on a technicality – not because he was innocent. “I never got involved in that because I never knew what the circumstances were so I don’t really have a comment on them. It doesn’t at all reconcile with the person I knew.” Really? It seems jarring to you that a man who drew a cartoon lauding child molestation was actually a child molester? “I don’t know. It may very well have happened. I wasn’t involved.” Doesn’t that suggest a very casual attitude towards the rape of children? That you’re not bothered by it? That you would publish a cartoon joking about child molestation by a child molester in his prison cell? “Wh-at? No. Paedophiliacs don’t read Hustler. Hustler is an adult thing.”

Flynt’s daughter, Tonya, claims she remembers those cartoons very well. In her memoir, Hustled, she alleges that her father showed her those cartoons when she was nine and “began to explain what little girls do with their fathers… The cartoon character with the erection represented the good, loving father. Dad’s hand moved to my breasts”. She says the molestation made her “filled with self-hate, anxious to be done with life as I know it, even if death was the only way out”.

Hey, but he's a champion for freedom, amirite?

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