LA-based Hustler Publications owner Larry Flynt, along with Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis, said today they will ask Congress for $5 billion for the sagging adult entertainment industry, the bulk of which is produced in the San Fernando Valley.

Francis said, “The US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people… We went from a system of laissez-faire economics where the government let’s the invisible hand control the market, and now the government gets involved and corrects things and we have a $13 billion dollar industry that’s very in need of correcting.”

While some may scoff at the notion of yet another taxpayer-financed attempt to harden one more slackening sector of the US economy, Flynt said, “People are too depressed to be sexually active… It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”

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