A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Girl Loves Her SOB [April 4, 2007]]

A Girl Loves Her SOB [April 4, 2007]]

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John Mendelssohn
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In the summer of 1980, I worked briefly as a senior editor at Larry Flynt (yes, that one) Publications in Los Angeles. Women had come suddenly to find me awfully presentable; hardly a day went by that a female fellow employee didn’t come into my office, close the door behind her, and offer herself to me.

I went to a party that lots of us Flynt employees…

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