The jokes you hate to love
By Dian Hanson. Excerpt from the introduction of 'Sex to Sexty'
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Fellow students nicknamed him Pierre, partly for the beret, and partly because he drew all the girls in class naked, or as he imagined them naked, at a time when anything sexy was automatically French. Pierre's strongest ties were to farm life, though, and for his first cover of Sex to Sexty, #19, he painted two pigs in love. The issue's editorial apologized for the rustic cover, but the readers loved it. As did Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. "After (Flynt) got shot he wanted to buy Sex to Sexty," says Pierre."It was just before we stopped doing the magazine and he wanted me to continue doing it. He offered me some unbelievable price, like a million dollars or somethin' and asked me to come out to see him in Los Angeles. I was just hustlin' paintings out of the back of my car so this was all the money in the world. (Wife) Charlie and I were drivin' down to Dallas to fly to LA with Johnny (Newbern Jr.), and Larry had this big party we were supposed to be at that night and when we stopped to have lunch I told Charlie, 'I can't go through with this. I don't mind risqué, but Hustler is just too vulgar for me.' So I turned around and came home and Johnny went out there and the party was all atheists! He told me later he was in the hot tub with Larry and said, 'I just knew I was in the hot tub with the devil himself!'" "At lunch I sat between Larry Flynt and Madalyn Murray O'Hair," says John Jr."Dennis Hopper was at the table, Timothy Leary and Althea was across the table with her blue spiked hair and her chains that went from ear to eyebrow. I said,'Don't let the Rapture come right now!'"
Some will think it hypocritical that Pierre Davis and John Newbern Jr. found Hustler offensive when their own magazine reveled in adultery, prostitution and bestiality, but we all draw our moral lines differently. As John Jr. told me, "I'm a Christian and my dad was a Christian and I never saw any conflict with Sex to Sexty and living as a Christian because God made sex and he surely likes to laugh. Also, we only showed bare breasts.We were never explicit." Sex to Sexty may have had God on its side, but in the end the public sided with the devil, choosing Hustler and other increasingly explicit fare over America's last risqué humor magazine. Sex to Sexty ceased publishing in 1983. Now that the PC furor has died down it's time to give the most vulgar magazine ever made its due. Dare to laugh at the jokes we hate to love.What you'll find in this book is humor that's timelessly tasteless, irretrievably irreverent, and though utterly American, absolutely universal.
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Fellow students nicknamed him Pierre, partly for the beret, and partly because he drew all the girls in class naked, or as he imagined them naked, at a time when anything sexy was automatically French. Pierre's strongest ties were to farm life, though, and for his first cover of Sex to Sexty, #19, he painted two pigs in love. The issue's editorial apologized for the rustic cover, but the readers loved it. As did Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. "After (Flynt) got shot he wanted to buy Sex to Sexty," says Pierre."It was just before we stopped doing the magazine and he wanted me to continue doing it. He offered me some unbelievable price, like a million dollars or somethin' and asked me to come out to see him in Los Angeles. I was just hustlin' paintings out of the back of my car so this was all the money in the world. (Wife) Charlie and I were drivin' down to Dallas to fly to LA with Johnny (Newbern Jr.), and Larry had this big party we were supposed to be at that night and when we stopped to have lunch I told Charlie, 'I can't go through with this. I don't mind risqué, but Hustler is just too vulgar for me.' So I turned around and came home and Johnny went out there and the party was all atheists! He told me later he was in the hot tub with Larry and said, 'I just knew I was in the hot tub with the devil himself!'" "At lunch I sat between Larry Flynt and Madalyn Murray O'Hair," says John Jr."Dennis Hopper was at the table, Timothy Leary and Althea was across the table with her blue spiked hair and her chains that went from ear to eyebrow. I said,'Don't let the Rapture come right now!'"
Some will think it hypocritical that Pierre Davis and John Newbern Jr. found Hustler offensive when their own magazine reveled in adultery, prostitution and bestiality, but we all draw our moral lines differently. As John Jr. told me, "I'm a Christian and my dad was a Christian and I never saw any conflict with Sex to Sexty and living as a Christian because God made sex and he surely likes to laugh. Also, we only showed bare breasts.We were never explicit." Sex to Sexty may have had God on its side, but in the end the public sided with the devil, choosing Hustler and other increasingly explicit fare over America's last risqué humor magazine. Sex to Sexty ceased publishing in 1983. Now that the PC furor has died down it's time to give the most vulgar magazine ever made its due. Dare to laugh at the jokes we hate to love.What you'll find in this book is humor that's timelessly tasteless, irretrievably irreverent, and though utterly American, absolutely universal.
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Sex to Sexty
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The ultimate collection of America's most salacious humor launched by the former cult magazine Sex to Sexty
