Hustler Belt Buckles and Jewelry

As the popularity of Hustler grows, so does the fashion and accessories of that industry. One of the most common clothing accessories has become the Hustler Belt buckle. Hustler belt buckles are available at the official Hustler Belt Buckles shop and include:

Hustler Spinner Belt Buckle, Hustler METALORD Belt Buckle, Hustler Natural Born Hustler Belt Buckle, Natural Born Hustler Belt Buckle, Hustler Belt Buckle, Hustler Hardcore Since 74 Belt Buckle, Hustler Stripper Belt Buckle, Licensed Hustler Belt Buckle and Hustler Ready To Shoot Belt Buckle.

In addition, this Belt Buckle site sell Official Hustler Jewelry. This Hustler Jewelry includes Licensed Hustler Flaming Dice Ring, Hustler Double Skull Ring, Hustler Cross Ring, 18" Hustler Heart & Lips Link Necklace, Hustler Heart & Lips Link Bracelet, Hustler Coat of Arms Ring with Star, Hustler Heart Bracelet, 36" Hustler Heart Necklace, 18" Hustler Gothic Necklace, Hustler Gothic Cross Necklace, Hustler Red Cherries Necklace, Hustler Heart Necklace, 36" Old English Hustler Necklace, Hustler Honey Belly Ring and Star Dangle Hustler Belly Ring.  

Background:

At the close of the twentieth century, "sexploitation" magazine publishing had evolved into a $1-billion-a-year business. Leading the field was Hustler magazine. Unlike Playboy (see entry under 1950s—Print Culture in volume 3), its chief rival during the century's last decades and a publication whose sexual imagery was far less degrading by contemporary standards, Hustler printed photographs that are raw, graphic, and sexually explicit. Many sex magazines were available only in shops specializing in XXX-rated material. In comparison, Hustler could be found on the magazine racks in all types of bookstores. For better or worse, its initial success in the mid-1970s helped to lift pornography into the mainstream of popular culture. For this reason alone, Hustler is one of the most controversial magazines ever published.

Hustler was the brainchild of Larry Flynt (1942-), its publisher and founder. In 1972, Flynt, who owned a chain of bars that featured strippers and go-go dancers, began publishing a sex-oriented newsletter, which he eventually expanded into a glossy magazine. He broke from Playboy and Penthouse, another of the era's popular "men's magazine," in that he refused to tastefully obstruct his models' "private parts." Nor was Flynt concerned with celebrating the beauty of the female form. He often depicted his models participating in rape or male-domination fantasies, or smeared with excrement. On one of his more infamous covers, he pictured a woman being fed into a meat grinder. In 1975, he raised a furor—and won reams of publicity—by printing a photo of a nude Jackie Onassis (1929-1994), the former first lady and wife of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), sunbathing in Greece.

Flynt was a shrewd self-promoter. As he became a magnet for controversy, sales of his magazine soared. Through the years, he often was hauled into court on obscenity charges. Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell (1933–) sued Flynt in the wake of a Hustler parody depicting the preacher having sex with his mother in an outhouse. A lower court ruled in Falwell's favor, and the case was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988. The higher court reversed the decision, endorsing Flynt's right to lampoon a public figure.

Since the mid-1970s, Flynt's legal costs have topped an estimated $50 million. In 1978, outside a courthouse, a would-be assassin shot the publisher twice from close range, using a high-powered rifle. Flynt survived, but permanently lost the use of both his legs. His life story was told in the 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Milos Forman