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Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher, and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP).
LFP mainly produces pornographic videos and magazines, most notably Hustler. The company has an annual turnover approximating $150 million. Larry Flynt has had several legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has run for public office a number of times. He has bipolar disorder and is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries from an assassination attempt.

Born in Magoffin County, Kentucky, near Salyersville, to Larry Claxton and Edith (Arnett) Flynt, he spent his childhood in poverty. Flynt attended public school in Salyersille but dropped out while in primary school. His mother divorced his alcoholic father when Flynt was ten, taking Flynt with her to Indiana. Flynt joined the U.S. Army in 1958 at fifteen, leaving after barely a year. He then joined the Navy in 1959 and served on the USS Enterprise as a radar operator. Flynt left the Navy in 1964 and began working in a General Motors factory in Dayton, Ohio. He opened the first Hustler Club, a strip club, in Cincinnati in 1970. Other clubs soon followed in Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, and Cleveland. Flynt started his magazine Hustler in July 1974, later publishing a similar magazine, Chic, for women.