Porn industry seeking stimulus

CREDIT CRUNCH: Adult film actress Ange Venus poses for fans at the Max World Entertainment booth during the Adult Video News (AVN) Adult Entertainment Expo - the industry has asked for a bailout.

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Porn kings Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are calling on the US government to revive the sex lives of Americans by providing a $5 billion bailout of the country's adult entertainment industry.

Hustler magazine publisher Flynt and Girls Gone Wild founder Francis have sent a joint request to the Government asking for the bailout to help them ride out the economic crisis, website News Blaze is reporting.

The pair said while the porn industry was still viable, the economic crunch had taken its toll.

Francis said as the government was prepared to bail out other faltering industries such as car-manufacturers, they should be willing to help the porn industry.

"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration," the statement is reported to have said.

Flynt said the downturn was having an unhealthy affect on the sexual appetites of Americans.

"People are too depressed to be sexually active," the website reported him as saying.

"This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex."

"It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly," he said.

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