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To: JDN who wrote (213637)	1/1/2002 12:22:22 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Just ask his daughter who she says he molested.... Larry Flynt's Daughter Blasts Pornography phillynews.com By Elisa Ung Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer 10-19-99 MONTGOMERYVILLE - Some church members may have been surprised yesterday to find the daughter of Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt at their morning service. They may have been even more surprised that Tonya Flynt-Vega was the featured speaker. But her words flew in the face of everything her famous father stands for: She has started a foundation dedicated to stopping pornography and child abuse. "My father says there are no victims of pornography," Flynt-Vega told the congregation of Crossroads Community Church. "I say I'm living proof that there is. . . . Pornography is an addiction. I was addicted to it, my father's addicted to it. It's just like a drug." Flynt-Vega, 34, has said her father's addiction to pornography led to his sexually abusing her. She formed the Tonya Flynt Foundation under the belief that sexual abuse and rape are directly linked to pornography. Based in Jacksonville, Fla., the nonprofit foundation will promote education on the subject. It has a Web site (<http://www.tonyaflynt.orgwww.tonyaflynt.org) and advocates Internet blocking devices and research of pornography and sexual abuse. Flynt, who became even more well-known with the 1996 movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, has denied abusing his daughter. Church leaders invited Flynt-Vega to speak to start off their new support group for addicts, called OASIS. They said pornography was addictive, just like drugs or alcohol and was becoming more destructive to communities. "Right up the road is a topless bar. A couple of minutes from the bar is an adult bookstore. It's right here," said Dan LaValla, a church leader who invited Flynt-Vega to the church after hearing her on a radio show. A therapist, he said he regularly sees marriages threatened because one spouse is getting hooked on pornography. "With the explosion of the Internet, it's becoming more of an issue," he said. "It's in corporate America, it's in communities. I think she'll have some tips on how we can deal with it in our own community." One goal of the new foundation is to prove a link between child abuse and pornography. Flynt-Vega cited research by Mary Anne Layden of the University of Pennsylvania that links sexual crimes and pornography. "For 15 years, I didn't have one case of sexual violence that didn't involve pornography," Layden told church members. "The images are implanted in the brain permanently. It's a distorted set of beliefs that miseducates people." Flynt-Vega told the responsive congregation of more than 100 people that she is living proof. Growing up as the daughter of a poor cocktail waitress and a millionaire, most of the year her bedroom was her mother's walk-in closet, she said. But a few times a year, she would be whisked into the world of her father, where private jets and naked women were the norm. "He saw me infrequently. He seduced me, manipulated me and molested me. He taught me that was love," Flynt said. "I can't tell you the damage that these experiences did to my body, to my sexuality." Later, she said, she turned to drugs and became promiscuous before finding faith in God. She now uses her famous name to denounce her father's actions and lifestyle. "You know what's happening to us?" she said. "We're becoming desensitized as a society, as a community. People's values are twisted. "I like to tell people that pornography is not about free speech. I'm using my First Amendment right to speak out against pornography. We have to stand up as communities and say we're not going to tolerate it."

To: JDN who wrote (213637)	1/1/2002 3:02:00 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Respond to of 769670

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!! I am no prude but Flynt goes beyond anything even reasonably pornish. The guy is disgusting. Could he be related to clinton by any chance?. DNA? Maybe an unknown Daddy? Ken