Sometimes, you just don't need to come up with a funny take on a story.

Sometimes, that'd just be redundant…

Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and HUSTLER magazine publisher Larry Flynt are petitioning the newly convened 111th Congress to provide a financial bailout for the adult entertainment industry along the lines of what is being sought by the Big Three automakers, a spokesperson for Francis announced today.

Adult industry leaders Flynt and Francis sent a joint request to Congress asking for $5 billion in federal assistance, "Just to see us through hard times," Francis said.

"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses, we feel we deserve the same consideration. In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."…

"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt says, "It's time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly."

Obviously, neither Flynt nor Francis are being particularly genuine with this call for relief from the government. But I can't really see why — if they were serious — they shouldn't be subject to the same kind of bailout as the auto industry.

Of course, if our porn industry did go bankrupt, I suppose that we'd still be able to import pornography from countries like Japan, Germany and Eastern Europe. And I guess that would just be the fault of the lazy American porn industry for not providing the quality of content that the American porn consumer has become dependant upon.

Maybe our auto-erotic industry can use this as an opportunity to start employing more of the increasingly popular hybrid performers.