The daughter of Hustler mastermind Larry Flynt has called for a U.S. Justice Department crackdown on Adult Websites, particularly those that depict sex between adults and children or between family members.
Tonya Flynt-Vega, whose recent autobiography called porn the greatest menace in America today, was reported by the Agape Press as saying that – with Adult Internet purveyors “always look(ing) for new ways to stretch norms and push the cultural envelope” – she believed a Justice crackdown would not come until citizens become outraged enough, especially over adult-child and incest sex sites she thinks proliferate far more than the general public realizes.
"Incest, child-adult sex and the like are clearly illegal,” Flynt-Vega told Agape, “and... should be prosecuted by the Department of Justice immediately."
"For me and my family, there is no turning back. Larry Flynt is my father, and his empire is the enemy. I am fighting what may be the greatest menace in America today, one that threatens women, children, and ultimately, the soul of our society. My journey has been long, and it has not been easy. I have been threatened. My faith has been challenged. But I have persevered."
Flynt-Vega’s 1998 autobiography, Hustled, accused her father of fostering an abusive home and using his own media to justify sexual abuse. She has since taken pains to say her battle is not against her father himself but his work and what she believes he represents. She has been quoted elsewhere as saying America is “desensitized” to porn and its effects on values and marriage.
“I began studying the harmful effects of pornography and found that the images in pornography are degrading to women and increasingly to young children and a threat to family values,” Flynt-Vega has said. “Pornography has shaped our television, movie industries, art, theater, music, public decency and our basic institution of marriage and family. Pornography’s greatest harm is its ability to desensitize us to evil. It is impossible to measure how greatly it has rotted the core of our nation.”
Flynt-Vega has an ally in former FBI agent William P. Kelly. “If we do not soon make some progress,” he told Agape Press, “we will not be able to keep these barbarians from completely coming over the walls of our civilization… if progress is not made against adult obscenity in the next few years, the struggle to [restrict] the industry will be lost."
