http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/07/porn-industry-seeks-federal-bailout/美国色情大亨请求50亿美元紧急援助，以救助疲软的色情行业
拉里·佛林特希望通过成功实施一场另类的公关战来应对信贷危机，即向美国政府申请50亿美元（30亿英镑）的一揽子救助计划，以振兴美国疲软的色情行业。
《好色客》杂志（Hustler magazine）的创办人弗林特，以及“狂野女孩”（Girls Gone Wild）系列剧（美国色情真人秀节目——译者注）的背后老板乔·弗朗西斯，正在寻求国会的帮助以救助色情市场。他们说，色情行业已经成为全球经济衰退中一个最新的受害者。
去年年底，当福特、通用和克莱斯勒汽车公司开始受到衰退的影响后，美国政府向挣扎中的美国汽车行业注入了234亿美元。
弗林特和弗朗西斯声称，在过去一年中成人DVD的销量已下滑22％，因此他们也应该被伸以援手。
弗朗西斯在一份声明中说：“国会看来愿意帮助我们国家一些最重要的行业摆脱困境，我们觉得我们应该得到同样的考虑”。
“在经济困难时期，美国人会借助于娱乐来放松，而且会越来越多地转向成人娱乐。”
弗林特的发言人欧文·摩根告诉有线电视新闻网：“我们之所以这么做，是因为从银行到三大汽车公司，每个人和他们的母亲都希望被救助。”
“和任何其它行业一样，色情业已经受到了经济衰退的伤害，他们将申请50亿美元的救助。这难道不是世界上最严肃的事情吗？如果（救助）得以实施，难道不会使美国人的生活好点儿吗？但这不是他们决定的。”
于本周在拉斯维加斯举办的“2009年成人视频网络博览会”开展的同时，向国会提出的“重振美国的性欲”的联合申请迄今为止没有得到任何官方的回应，
另有消息披露，弗林特正在起诉他的两个侄子使用家族姓氏来销售他们自己的成人电影。
这位66岁的出版商说，本周一他在美国地方法院提起了一项诉讼，控告吉米·弗林特二世和达斯汀·弗林特制作他称之为“伪劣产品”和“冒牌货”的色情电影。
“他们进入成人娱乐业务和使用我的名字不仅误导了那些购买我的产品的人，而且如果他们不能保证一定的质量，这也可能伤害我的声誉”。
吉米·弗林特二世和达斯汀·弗林特为他们的叔叔工作了10多年，大约一年前他解雇了他们。兄弟俩说，他们正在努力闯进这个行业，并且有权使用自己的姓氏。
转自 译言 http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/59676/23884
January 7, 2009
Posted: 05:27 PM ET
From CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Mark Preston
Larry Flynt is asking for a bailout.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Another major American industry
is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues:
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said
Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a
bailout of the adult entertainment industry.
“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed
out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for
Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like
everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the
most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of
Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”
Francis said in a statement that “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 should be delivering [the request] by the end of today to our
congressmen and [Secretary of the Treasury Henry] Paulson asking for
this $5 billion dollar bailout,” he told CNN Wednesday.
Flynt and Francis concede the industry itself is in no financial
danger — DVD sales have slipped over the past year, but Web traffic has
continued to grow.
But the industry leaders said the issue is a nation in need. "People
are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in the statement.
"This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and
such but they cannot do without sex."
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex
is the farthest thing from their mind. 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."
So far, there has been no congressional reaction to the request.
–CNN’s Chloe Melas contributed to this report
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