Max Hardcore

Max Hardcore (born Paul F. Little on August 10, 1956 in Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A.) is a controversial and unique male porn star and producer whose films usually feature him engaging in a variety of sexual acts with young women who dress and act like prepubescent girls. He has faced obscenity charges and charges of simulating child pornography, but has never been convicted of these. In some films the female 'co-stars' are made to call Little "Daddy". During the films the girls are made to repeatedly vomit on themselves or on female 'co-stars'. They are slapped, seemingly made to gag and retch, are urinated upon and seemingly made to drink their own urine.

On his website in 'Max Factor #10' female 'co-star' 'Lain' is asked when she first had sex, she replies at age 10, Little asks who with and Lain says her Uncle, Little asks if it hurt and did he (her uncle)care, Lain says yes it did and no he didn't. During the film Lain starts to cry as she had no idea that she would be urinated on during the film. Filming is not stopped and she is coerced into finishing the film, she begins crying again and Little tells the crew the shoot has finished. The editing makes a feature of and ridicules her tears, also the fact that she says she is not stupid. An exit interview is filmed where she asks for a sticker for her boyfriend, again the editing makes her look ridiculous for this.

In 'Extreme Schoolgirls #11' The actress 'Shilo', while being violently sodomised, is asked if "her daddy used to do that to her" - to which she replies "yeah"

In 'Maxed out #2' an 'actress' called Ericka Lockhart is clearly upset by the end of filming and unable to smile on command. She is verbally abused by Little and although she tries she cannot hide being so upset.

It has been hypothesised that Mr Little's predilection for abusing women comes from childhood trauma or psychosexual developmental problems. Little's critics often cite the fact that he is of short stature and and this gives rise to deep seated inadequacy, gaining power through acting out extreme sexual violence on obviously vulnerable young women/girls.

Little refutes this and maintains that there is nothing in his past to suggest his current behaviour toward women/girls.

The issue of personal agency on the part of the female 'co-stars' has also been questioned. In many of Little's films the girls are seemingly influenced by alcohol or drugs. The girls are often described as 'troubled' (even as part of Little's own publicity) and one could assume that any female willing to allow that level of intimate violation, is profoundly psychologically/emotionally vulnerable.

Prosecutions

Although Hardcore often depicts his actresses as young and sometimes beneath the age of consent, they are not actually under 18. In his film Max Extreme 4, an actress over the age of 18 was portraying a character who states that she is 12 years old.

Based on these movies, the city of Los Angeles in 1998 charged him with child pornography and distribution of obscenity. The fact that the actress was over the age of 18 was not disputed; they brought charges based solely on the fact that the actress was portraying a character who was under eighteen years of age.

Publicly realising a fantasy of sexual violence toward a female child is an extremely grey area of the law. As it is not an offence to state publicly that you are a paedophile, nor is it an offence to promote pseudo-paedophilia.

Just before the case was brought to trial in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional (See Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition). Based on this ruling, the child pornography charges against Hardcore were dismissed. The misdemeanor charge of distribution of obscenity was retained, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. An additional obscenity charge was subsequently levied against him by L.A., again resulting in a hung jury. Hardcore commented that "it was a frivolous waste of public resources."

On October 5, 2005, the offices of Max World Entertainment were raided by the FBI. Five video titles and the office's computer servers were seized, ostensibly for research toward a federal obscenity indictment or a charge related to the 2257 record-keeping law. In response to this action, Hardcore released the following statement: "Once again, the government is wasting tax dollars and otherwise invaluable law enforcement resources to try to force a minority view of morality on all of America. Five of my movies have been targeted by the Federal Prude Patrol. There is no indication of any crime to be alleged except obscenity. If indicted, I will fight to protect my liberty, as well as the liberty of consenting adults to watch other adults engage in lawful, consensual, pleasurable sexual action. Shame on the Bush Department of Justice. I am proud of the movies I make and proud of those who buy and sell those movies."

In 2007 Max Hardcore was indicted by the Department of Justice on 10 counts of federal obscenity charges in Tampa, Florida.

External links

• rotten.com article
• Biography from talkingblue.com
• http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0531071max1.html?link=eaf
• Max Hardcore Trial Travesty, by Steve Nelson, Adult Industry News
• News story about a recent raid on Max Hardcore's studio
• Max Hardcore Raided by Feds in Obscenity Probe News release from Free Speech Coalition (October 4, 2005)
• Hoffman Hardballs Hardcore Interview by David Hoffman (February 11, 2003)
• "Devil in the Flesh: From painful sex to foul-mouthed revenge fantasies, a meaner brand of pornography takes the back door to commercial success." by Peter S. Scholtes, City Pages (1/14/98)