"Aristocrats" Proves Victory For Free Speech Advocates

I want to take a brief break from my top 10 "Al-time" favorite movie list to relay a recent experience. Last night I went to see Penn Jillette's film "The Aristocrats," and as a man who began his crusade against the Goebbels-like anti-free-speech censors of the Nixon administration in 1968 with my first issue of Screw Magazine, I must say this film is momentous. “The Aristocrats” is the filthiest film of ALL TIME (and I’ve seen a lot of filth). This is revolutionary material and means that after starting the battle in 1968 with Screw Magazine, the war has finally been won by our side. The anti-religious, pro-hedonistic warriors have vanquished the censors, the anti-Internet yahoos and catholic church zealots. The victors, Paul Fishbein and AVN, Ron Jeremy and Larry Flynt and yours truly helped produce the victory for porno. My 21 obscenity arrests were not done in vain.

In 1968 I entered the world of "the forbidden" when i published the first issue of Screw Magazine. It was an anti-censorship and pro-pornography statement against the status quo of hypocracy, deceit and lies about human sexuality. It followed the great traditions of sexual honesty. From the famous Kinsey reports of 1948 to the studies of Masters & Johnson, which was so blatantly scientific and pro-sex that the Christian right and moral bigots labeled it "pornography." From Hollywood movies that banned words like "virgin," "pregnant" and "dammed" to the growth of nudie films to the evolution of explicit erotic films that culminated in the world of “Deep Throat" and “Behind the Green Door.” The secret world of black comedy, jazz, pot and sexuality was seeping into the homogenized white world. Rhythm and blues, Lenny Bruce and Elvis Presley blended the world of the ethnic for the masses (whites). New venues in addition to the networks via new technology such as cable and satellite radio as well as computers and the Internet democratized the forbidden and the control of governments and churches. The truth of "dirty" (honest) comedy, explicit porno helped by technological breakthroughs such as the Polaroid cameras and home video, was the new tray that served the suppressed appetites of a hungry and truth-seeking public.


The emperor was stark raving naked and no one admitted it. We all lived lies filled with the pretense of fidelity but every topless club was filled and every hooker had someone in her bed. Every cock had a fag mouth for felatio. We learned guilt and non validation of our humanity. We saw ourselves as sinners and humans and Darwinian in our evolution. Penn’s movie (“The Aristocrats”) has set us free and the battle I started in 1968 with Screw Magazine is now officially over. Freedom and honesty has won!!!!!!! Lets lick some pussy and jerk off in Boobleland to celebrate. FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST!