Sex and the modern skateboarder
Talkshow host exposes Larry Flynt kiddie porn scam
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1999
Editor's note: This story discusses material many will consider shocking and offensive.
By David Pettineo
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
The cover of the January issue of Big Brother Skateboarding magazine depicts an 8-year-old boy flying through the air on his skateboard. The words "Big Brother" are printed at the top in the colorful wooden building-block letters that young children play with. At the bottom of the cover are the words "Kids Issue" written in blue, red and yellow -- the primary colors of a kid's Crayola box. Presumably, this is a skateboarding magazine aimed at children -- like the 8-year-old pictured on the front. If so, says Talk Radio Network host Guy Kemp, the cover is anything but truthful.
The pages inside contain lewd, obscene and often pornographic language. There are several interviews with teen-age skateboarders -- all either 14 or 15 years old. In one such interview, Omar, a 14-year-old skater was asked questions such as "If someone offered you a job as a porn star would you take it?" "How do you want to die?" and "Have you ever been kicked in the balls?"
Lastly, the interviewer asked: "Do you think 'scrotum' is a funny word?" The boy innocently replied, "What's a squirt 'em?" The interviewer tried further, explaining the word. After three tries to get the boy to say "scrotum," the interviewer gave up, but he had one last question to ask Omar: "Would you ever f--- your mom to be as good as 'the Muska' (Chad Muska, a top skateboarder)?" Omar replied, "No dude. That is terrible. No way in hell. It's so sick. And I'd rather have fun working my way to the top."
Almost every interview in the magazine asked a pornographic question. Lewis, age 15, was asked questions such as "Do you have pubic hair?" "Have you ever seen a girl naked?" and, "Do you think that your wiener will ever grow to be as big as daddy's?"
Page through the magazine further, and one finds -- squeezed between two more interviews of 14-year-olds -- an article called "How To Make a Kid" by Managing Editor Dave Carnie. It reads: "Combine one penis and one vagina. Marinate the vagina with alcohol for two hours. When it's loose and moist knead the penis until it reaches a hard consistency. Repeatedly stuff the vagina with the penis until the penis is soft and has released its juices. Bake the penis juices in the vagina for nine months, after which a kid will drop out. Spank the kid until it emits a scream, then cut the cord that connects it to the vagina. Serve warm. Bon appetite."
There is much more -- some of it even more graphic and shocking when considering the context of a magazine designed for children.
What kind of magazine would ask these questions of 14- and 15-year-olds? What kind of interviewer would try to get a 14-year-old to say "scrotum"? What kind of publication would put such material in a "Kid's Issue?" The answer? A magazine owned by publisher Larry Flynt.
After discovering Big Brother Skateboarding, Kemp brought it to the attention of his nationally syndicated radio audience. Kemp read the aforementioned parts of the magazine, censoring out certain four-letter words that would offend listeners. The next day, Kemp was shocked to find that he had lost affiliates.
"I've been fired from radio stations for this before, and I've lost affiliates before," said Kemp, "but I have never lost an affiliate for reading out of a children's magazine. What's wrong with this picture? It's a blatant attempt to indoctrinate kids into the porno mindset."
He cited an article called "Tips for Girls" written by Sarah Stanton. In her article Stanton gives young teen-age girls advice about how to "steal the show" at a party. She encourages girls to "show their boobies." If this doesn't attract any attention, she recommends that young girls resort to lesbianism: "Find another girl. Find two or three other girls. All you need to do now is find a fair amount of floor space and undress (sloowly). Now, put on an in-home show. Don't be shy about it either -- go to town. Do some tonsil excavating. Tongue-fondle each other's curves and piercings. Alcohol can really help you in this situation."
If lesbianism doesn't work, Stanton advocates going back to some casual heterosexual activity: "... find the nearest gentleman and get all physical with him. Give him a handjob. He will really love you for it, and you will get many head pats while performing this naughty deed." And if that still doesn't work, Stanton has one more piece of advice for teen-age girls: "Are there any animals in the house? Get freaky on them too! Remember imagination is the key." Considering that Big Brother's readership is 25 percent female, could this sort of encouragement, as Kemp suggested, be a possible breeding ground for the future models (and purchasers) of Flynt's Hustler magazine?
As a parent, Kemp was outraged after reading these articles. He then called the managing editor of Big Brother Skateboarding, Dave Carnie, to ask him about this "Kid's Issue." Via telephone on Kemp's radio show, Carnie expressed no remorse about the obscene articles and interviews, at times even laughing. When asked about the indecent language, Carnie replied, "The kids that are reading our magazine are 14 and 15 years old, even as young as 12 ... they're going to learn this stuff anyway. I don't care what people think." Said Carnie, "I'm just going to do what I think is funny." Kemp then moved on to the Word Search and began reading some of the words to Carnie. When asked about Hitler being in the Word Search, Carnie laughingly said, "Hitler's in there? That guy's everywhere!"
Kemp later asked about the deceptive cover of the magazine. He asked Carnie point-blank: "Now be honest with me ... tell me the truth. Is this (the cover) not marketed so that the parents won't know (what's inside the magazine)." To this, Carnie replied, "Yes, definitely. It's definitely what we're doing."
This may be the first time anyone from a Flynt publication has admitted to deliberately deceiving kids into purchasing a pornographic magazine. So the question remains as to why there were no warning labels on the cover. Carnie's answer is startling: "We wanted a label on it, but Flynt won't let us put one on there because it cuts into sales."
Flynt's adult publications have warning labels on them, restricting minors. Yet, even though Carnie wanted to put a warning label on this so-called "Kids" magazine and prevent teen-agers (kids as young as 12, admits Carnie) from reading it, Flynt said no, ostensibly to sell more magazines.
With a circulation of 100,000 copies per month, and 66,000 faithful subscribers, Big Brother Skateboarding magazine is anything but an underground publication. Its target age group is anywhere from 12 to 17, sometimes even younger, as evidenced by the 8-year-old on the cover of the January "Kid's Issue."
So far, Flynt has not commented on the issue. Kemp is still working on acquiring an interview with Flynt to ask him these and other questions.
Kemp's program can be heard daily on Talk Radio Network from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern over 300 affiliates. TRN's lineup includes Kemp, Alan Keyes, Roy Masters, Barry Farber, Roger Fredinburg, Sean David Morton and Lucianne Goldberg.
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