# Should Larry Flynt Publish Topless Pics of J. Lynch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 11, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644 "2003-11-11T18:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/41 "2003-11-13T12:48:46Z")
I don’t want to hijack this Sgt. J, but I’ve been in some of those same locations. I do think I should make clear that I’m not talking about in some sort of forward area, or even combat zone. I’m talking stationed on a regular base, as my perminant duty station, for long stretches at a time. Now if you can tell me honestly that you or your buddies have never engaged in any ‘dubiouse’ behavior, from the time you were an E-1 till now, then I laud your sense of responsibility. But then I’ll have to just assume that their are those that do, and those that don’t. I’m just saying that I was in all those places, and can think of at least one nude/party/drunk/innappropriate moment in each and every one of them, at least once. If not by myself, then by buddies, or people we were hanging out with. If you’ve been to Incirlik, and Tent City is still there, with the squadron bars, then I can’t believe you’ve never seen anything like this happening. Hell, I’ve seen panty flashing at the Wagon Wheel, and that’s a base club. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/42 "2003-11-13T14:52:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mtgman \*\*\* > Except that Larry Flynt isn’t a public figure and, by definition, any inquiries he makes are not public inquiries. \*\* Pictures and stories in magazines aren’t public? By that definition, even Richard Scaife isn’t a “public” figure. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sgt.J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sgt.J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.J)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/43 "2003-11-13T15:56:55Z")
I’ve seen plenty of dubious behavior, but I’ve never seen topless female soldiers/airmen/marines/ doing impromptu photo shoots in the men’s barracks. I’m not saying I don’t believe it could or does ever happen, but > [@](#): > > A boob picture taken in the barracks while partying with some friends? Big deal makes it sound like “hey, happens all the time” and I would like to point out that, despite what your description of our time overseas could do for recruiters everywhere, while deployed tits are not popping out like Mardi Gras. I don’t believe she’s a lesser person for it, or make any moral judgment about her, but in light of the trouble she could get into as a US Soldier (her chosen profession), it wasn’t the brightest idea. On second thought…what’s your AFSC/MOS? Maybe I’ve just been in the wrong job all these years. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/44 "2003-11-13T17:23:12Z")
Larry Flynt, publisher of a pornographic magazine with a circulation of several hundred thousand (if not million), former candidate for Governor of California, and participant in a libel suit with Jerry Falwell that reached the US Supreme Court, is NOT a public figure? Sorry, I don’t buy it (not that it has much to do with the discussion, as far as I can tell). He’ll publish the pictures if it’ll help sell magazines. It is as simple as that. He’s a businessman, after all, with an eye on the bottom line. From the interviews I’ve read, or seen him participate in, he’s also zealously opposed to hypocrisy from ANYONE (regardless of political affiliation) and has a great nose for publicity. I’m thinking he won’t print them (if they exist), but he’ll enjoy the commotion he’s causing. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/45 "2003-11-13T17:38:27Z")
Even if she was the very first soldier in the entire history of the United States Army to ever show her tits to anyone, anywhere, I think it lacks substance as a criterion of judgment of her personality that one of her comrades in arms sold her picture to a Porno magazine. The photographer, however, is sleaze personified. Larry Flynt might be stepping up a rung on the evolutionary ladder, but only if he stops talking, and doesn’t publish or discuss the pictures any more. Tris ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/46 "2003-11-13T17:41:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Moto \* > \*\*Larry Flynt is a scumbag who doesn’t care who he hurts, as long as it makes money for him. > > I’m certain he’ll publish the photos, whether anybody wants him to or not. \*\* If Flynt has em he’ll publish em. If he doesn’t have em he’ll continue to claim the ‘high moral ground’ which he wouldn’t recognize if he met it on the street. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/47 "2003-11-13T17:52:10Z")
**Shodan** : Is Flynt paid with tax dollars? Was Ken Starr? See the difference now? I made it clear in my original post that I was talking public as in government sector. You choosing to quote out of context doesn’t change anything I said. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/48 "2003-11-13T18:13:53Z")
Richard Scaife (sp?) is not a public figure, then. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/49 "2003-11-13T18:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spingears \* > \*\*If Flynt has em he’ll publish em. > If he doesn’t have em he’ll continue to claim the ‘high moral ground’ which he wouldn’t recognize if he met it on the street. \*\* Did you even bother to read what we all wrote in this thread along with the links that we provided or did you just read the title and spew the first thing that came to your mind? He does have the pictures. He has stated that he is not going to publish them. For more details as to timing and motivations, scroll up and read. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/50 "2003-11-13T21:57:38Z")
Scaife, whoever he is, is not a public servant, incapable of performing a public inquiry, and represents no one except himself. Ditto with Flynt. Their publications, if they publish any, do not have the weight of law nor would someone end up in jail upon the conclusion of their investigations. No one will be taxed to support their investigations nor will anyone be bound by their findings. This is the difference between a public figure, such as Ken Starr, and a private figure, such as Larry Flynt. This is also the distinction which invalidates your charge of hypocrisy against “liberals”(whoever they are). Glad you’ve grasped it. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644/51 "2003-11-14T13:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > **He does have the pictures. He has stated that he is not going to publish them. For more details as to timing and motivations, scroll up and read.** Well, he says he has the pictures… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-larry-flynt-publish-topless-pics-of-j-lynch/212644.md?page=2)