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Audio Porn: Hard of Hearing
Sometimes all it takes is a faint smell to trigger a reaction and inspire arousal. Similarly, take away one sense, and the others step in to process stimuli. When it comes to porn, we...
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Sex Workers Vote!
To say that sex workers have had a rough couple of years would be the understatement of the century. Persecuted and scapegoated since the dawn of the trade itself, folks who choose to use their bodies as they...
Politics
Democracy Strikes Back
Well, it wasn’t a blue wave after all. It was, in fact, a blue tsunami last November, although you could be forgiven if you didn’t notice. Some key 2018 midterm election results were initially...
Politics
Outsmarting Capitalism?
Never hustle a hustler” is a street-smart dictum you would think President Donald Trump would have embraced long before launching his trade war with the People’s Republic of China. Maybe he was...
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Aisling Isolde: Transfiguration
Shock is in the eye of the beholder, but when Instagram banned the work of Australian artist Aisling Isolde, she gained a new, international audience for her raw, deglamorized...
Politics
Major Civil Rights Triumph
Mainstream media has a difficult time covering good news. While there wasn’t much of that in the mixed results of a deeply divided midterm electorate nationwide, one pure bright light of...
Politics
This Number Is No Longer in Service
There are a lot of scams in the Republican Party’s toolbox. One of the most insidious is the notion that cutting regulatory red tape is somehow meant to help you, the little...
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Boner Science
In the spirit of “masturbating will make you go blind” or the fabled “hairy palms” myth, “porn-induced erectile dysfunction” is the latest sexual bogeyman to haunt men who dare engage in the carnal...
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The Politics of Porn
It’s common knowledge that our government is overrun by alien lizard monsters and political affiliations mean less as we march headlong into the New World Order. But insofar as porn preference, it’s...
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The Real Fake News: Pence Heals Nation With Pizza Bagels
PITTSBURGH, PA—In the wake of the horrific violence at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue, Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to the Steel City in...
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Honey Is Pure Gold
There are few things more beautiful than the beach at sunset. The beach at sunset with Honey Gold on the sand is one of them. As the 25-year-old, multiethnic adult-film phenom takes in the scenery at Venice...
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Kristen Liu-Wong: The Fine Art of Nudie Cards
The golden age of porn gets a millennial makeover from Los Angeles-based artist Kristen Liu-Wong, who has made it her personal mission to recreate a...
Politics
Prepare for Impact(s)
It’s not your imagination. Natural disasters are getting worse—and we’re not ready. Roughly—and conservatively—speaking, one inch of rainfall is the equivalent of about one foot of...
Politics
Saudi Money Trumps U.S. Morals
Donald Trump has the strangest crushes on questionable countries, ranging from North Korea to Russia to Saudi Arabia, not to mention several other bizarre choices. But the one for which he...
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Sex On the Beach
With dead bodies stacking up faster than Garfield eats lasagna, city officials in Guadalajara, Mexico, decided that it might be a good idea to focus less on enforcing public decency statutes and instead...
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Presidential Penises
In a think piece from September 2018, Guardian journalist Hadley Freeman asks the very important question of whether or not it’s okay to laugh at a penis—specifically the penis belonging to bloated...
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The Real Deal News: Climate Scientists Urge World to Freak the Fuck Out
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new...
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Sex Superstars: Blond Bombshells
In appreciation of the beautiful blondes who have graced these pages over the past decade, HUSTLER presents a selection of fair-headed powerhouses and fan favorites—women who...
Politics
Donald Trump Wants to Kill You
Thousands will die under the president’s new plan to “bring back coal.” During Donald Trump’s first tumultuous year in office, Republicans in Congress fought like hell to “repeal...
