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Jazz Is Still Kickin’
I began reporting on jazz and knowing its key players in the late 1940s, also learning life lessons from them ever since. Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster advised, “Listen, kid, when the rhythm...
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Stalkers Paradise
The snoopers are our new best friends? Unbelievable but true when, for the first time in human history, it is the norm for people to volunteer to be spied upon. Folks eagerly pay for the very apps that betray...
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Naked Or Nude?
Are you comfortable being naked, or would you rather be nude? Who would you rather be photographed by: an artist or a pornographer? Nudity is everywhere, but the hangups continue. Censorship wars are waged...
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Lily Figuera’s Webcam World
A hardworking Internet vixen gives us the inside story about how she makes more money than most of us—without even getting out of bed. Born in the Philippines, Lily Figuera came to the...
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Jimmy Pardo: Still Hungry
What does it take to be the perfect warm-up guy, the comic who comes out and gets people in the mood before the star shows up? We don’t know. But whatever it is, Conan O’Brien’s...
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Deadly Cycle
It’s one of the world’s most elusive holy grails: lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. From a distance the conflict seems absurd. But for the people who live it day to day, the reasons...
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Priya Rai’s Original Sins
Priya Rai was molested by her adopted older brother when she was eight years old. Then life got harder. Much harder. “Om bhur bhuvah svah,” Priya chants. I’m at the Self-Realization...
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Porn From The Past
This recently unearthed snapshot depicts a great moment in sexual history: the world’s first rimjob. Unfortunately, this duo never got credit for the innovation, which was stolen from them and patented...
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Bold Move
Impressed by his insistent, often-solitary championing of civil liberties in the U.S. Senate, I twice wrote that Rand Paul should be our next President. But at that time I knew it was just a pipe dream because...
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Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Ever read the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Probably not, or you—like most Americans—would not be so accepting of its demise as a pillar of the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Bill...
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Good Vibes
To commemorate a new line of high-end vibrators, sex-toy purveyor Doc Johnson threw a shindig at the HUSTLER Hollywood store in Los Angeles. Doc Johnson, which has been providing products to help people get...
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Battle of the Boobs
Held annually in Las Vegas, the Miss Exotic Dancer competition pits the nation’s sexiest strippers against one another in order to crown the deftest disrober. The latest hoedown took place at the...
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Beware the Creamy Filling
Mmmm. Genital warts have never tasted this good. For an exhibition at London’s Pathology Museum, curator “Miss Cakehead” and Two Little Cats Bakery collaborated to put these...
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Hardy-Har-Har
If you enjoyed the first installment of SHH! Productions’ SuperHorny in our May ’13 issue, you’d be a damn fool not to catch the saga’s thrilling conclusion in the latest issue of HUSTLER HUMOR...
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Smut Fair Confidential
Behind the posing, red-carpet facade of the annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo is a naked, drunken world of marginal mayhem. We signed up the sharp-eyed underground photographer who fuels...
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Porn From The Past
This antique image documents the complicated mating rituals of a long-forgotten generation. Decades ago, if a man wanted to ask a girl out, he’d show up at her house nude (except for a hat with rabbit...
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Humanizing ALL of America’s Murder Victims?
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was a nonviolent, direct-action enabler of social justice whom I was privileged to know. In New York City...
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Orwellian Decision
Why did we go so crazy after 9/11? The idea that somehow our freedoms could be easily sacrificed, including those that our Constitution declared most fundamental to the survival of our republic, became the...
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Bobbie Brown’s American Pie
She’s the “Cherry Pie” girl from the Warrant music video, the blonde on roller skates who haunted the wet dreams of the MTV Generation. She dated a who’s who of rock...
