Tinsley’s case had many wondering about the culture of a place that had promoted this man. Like the purloined letter, it seemed that Tinsley was hiding in plain sight. His 18-year-old daughter said he had been raping her for years. Then in 1989, the cartoon’s creator, Dwaine B. The origin of the term many of us grew up using jokingly, the strip starred Chester, a beefy middle-aged man shown in various pedophilic acts - concealing his genitals in a hot dog bun while offering it to a child or, in a twist on the famous Coppertone sunscreen logo, Chester tugged at a little girl’s bathing suit with his teeth. The “Chester the Molester” cartoon first appeared in Hustler’s pages in 1976. As Laura Kipnis explained in her book on pornography, Bound and Gagged, “From its inception, Hustler made it its mission to disturb and unsettle its readers.” But one column provoked in a way that Flynt hadn’t intended. One cover once infamously depicted a woman being run through a meat grinder alongside the words “We will no longer hang women up like pieces of meat.” Hustler once dubbed feminist Andrea Dworkin a “shit-squeezing sphincter.” Nothing was out of bounds: shit, farts, assholes, you name it. Larry Flynt, the magazine’s publisher, was the “the sultan of smut” who rejoiced in pushing every Puritanical button this country had. It seemed that there was nothing that could shock Hustler readers anymore. A 1983 comic for Hustler Humor by Dwaine Tinsley.
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