“My position is that you pay a price to live in a free society, and that price is toleration of some things you don’t like,” he once told the Seattle Times. “You have to tolerate the Larry Flynts of this world.”

One of the original people being "canceled" my the Religious Right. Funny that the people celebrating his death and hating on him are the same people crying about Trump being kicked off of Twitter.

Good bye scum bag commie

so how do you think Flynt would have been received if he were publishing his magazine in the current politically correct environment? Certainly he would be seen as a misogynistic purveyor of flagrantly objectified women...no? Don't you think he would have suffered the punishment of being canceled by the hashtag me too crowd?

I don't see Flynt so much as a heroic figure regarding 1st amendment rights so much as I see him as a clever man who had clever lawyers who managed to turn the tables - change the narrative of his prosecution from purveyor of smut to victim of over zealous prudes who wanted to limit his 1st amendment rights.

His motivation was more about self preservation that it was about defending the 1st amendment IMHO.

His magazines showed a lot more than "free titties". You could get that in Playboy Magazine and dozens of others like it. Hustler IMHO did not glorify the female form so much as it reduced it to the level of skanky smelly pussy. His magazine was in no way flattering to women or more specifically to the female form. By comparison Playboy was almost innocent in its treatment of the female body. Just a wee bit more skin than you would see in a Betty Boop film or a pin up collection that was popular in the middle 1/3 of the 20th century.
No, Flynt was no hero. He was just good at finding a legal loophole that allowed him to continue to purvey his cynical smutty magazine.

Thanks for posting but knowing he was probably a hero to you in a really sick sort of way, later troll