Editorial from Buttman Magazine
April 24, 2008 5:05 am Editorial and Commentary, Front PageBUTTMAN MAG EDITORIAL: (As will appear in Buttman Magazine Vol. 11 No. 3)
THE UNITED STATES VS JOHN STAGLIANO
CRIMINAL NUMBER: 08-093
CHARGE: OBSCENITY
ARRAINGED: 4/21/08
Wow, I never thought I would reach this status in the world. I want to thanks the Justice Department for choosing me for this prosecution, I shall endeavor to not disappoint them.
There is war in America, on the American people. It takes the form of trying to kill pleasure. Perverse as this seems, the government, acting on political pressure from organized forces of evil (real evil, not Evil Empire, fun evil) in this country have made it their mission to see to it that people do not enjoy themselves too much, especially in sexual ways. This thing about ourselves, our sexuality, is something to be proscribed and controlled.
It is a fundamental thing about living, do I go for things that are expansive? That is, do I wish to extend my experience of this world? Or do I seek a narrow range of life, a range that does not include experimentation? They say this journey to enjoying your sexuality will addict you, it will screw up your life. That is for each of you to consider, but do you think someone should be able to control you, to repress you?
I have been called by our country to defend the rights of those who dare to love their lives here on earth, and I so love my life, and my freedom. They are trying to take that precious freedom away from me, and from you.
It is fitting that this issue is the one where I renew my own artistic impressions of ass. I have the stills here from the three scenes of my new release Buttman
Doug Langham True king of smut :
Date: April 26, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
Hey now I got cops saying there are going to private parties with larry flint trying to get me to kiss up. Larry flint wouldnt talk to this piece of shit and if he did he is being fooled. My access was blocked by the goverment etc. Its my turn to do some blocking. Free speech isnt intercepted speech, it’s not controlled speech and it’s not supressed speech. It’s not censorship and it’s not If you say what we want you can talk. Porn is free speech one of many forms. It’s being suppressed and next comes the people who are behind it but they are too stupid to understand that, they think the censors win, not here, and not in america. No matter how hard they try they will be defeated, or there will be nothing unique about this country for anyone to get excited about which is their plan. Doug Langham 2008
Ren :
Date: April 28, 2008 @ 11:03 am
This makes me so angry! I’m a woman and I love Evil Angel’s films. It amazes me that the government have the time and the nerve to go after film makers and producers like you and the other Evil Angel directors when in less than five seconds any person, any kid, with an internet connection can find graphic war footage, films of people being beheaded and stoned to death, and graphic murder and torture scenes from “mainstream” Hollywood movies and Network Television…and there is no effort whatsoever to keep minors away from that.
Free speech and artistic license most certainly extends to pornography, and well it should. And any person with a sexual web site out there, with or without pictures, should be afraid of this…any person who doesn’t have sex the way the government wants them to should be afraid of this.
Good luck, and I will be posting about this BS in my own spaces and sites.
Louisiana :
Date: July 7, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
nice topic,
Walter Greaves: Dallas, Texas :
Date: February 17, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
I was in prison for awhile. Buttman magazine got me through those lonely years. trips me out that the government is messing with you over some flicks. It seems immature. All i can say is Larry Flint set precedent for this type of shit. Freedom of speech always wins out in America. Always has, always will!!!
Ricky Carralero :
Date: April 24, 2009 @ 10:48 am
My name is Ricky Carralero. I am a professional artist and for many years a huge fan of John Stagliano. One day i decided to send a few samples of my work to John and a few days later the phone rang, it was John himself from there we developed a great fan to fan relationship and for many years my work was inside the pages of BUTTMAN MAGAZINE! I can’t say the number of letters i received from fans in jail and all over. I can honestly say that John opened new doors for my work and when i met him in person in an LA signing i had to me was one of the greatest moments of my life! Support your right to chose what you want to see, what you want to watch, what you want to say! i think this government has bigger issues to deal with than trying to stop people, US!, from viewing, reading, pleasuring our selfs in the most natural ways! “fight for your rights” stand out and scream loud!
Ricky Carralero
Professional Artist
pinup syndicate
http://www.myspace.com/rickyecarralero