[this was originally posted in the BIX adaptive.tech conference on 09/05/91]
to: Mr. Larry Flynt
Publisher
Hustler Magazine
Dear Mr. Flynt,
On behalf of the disabled, I'd like to ask you consider making Hustler Magazine accessible to the blind.
Although the blind and visually impaired are a potentially large market, most publishers ignore them, not realizing that even though they can't see, they still have money, which may be usefully moved from their accounts to yours. Since the blind are literally a captive market you could get away with pricing and distribution practices that would ordinarily have the Federal Trade Commission howling for your blood. After all, where else will they find smut of Hustler's level?
You might also bear in mind that even a token nod at accomodating blind subscribers would help your bottom line - by marking the magazines as "Matter For The Blind" you could save considerable amounts of postage. Heck, you might even be able to get them past those censors who pick through the Canadian mail.
Being a cripple yourself, you can appreciate the special techniques involved in opening up the field of pornography to the disabled. You could include an inflatable centerfold in each issue, with anatomically correct details in silicone plastic, much like those of your real models.
Further work could be done by binding in cheap vinyl "audio disk" records. Unfortunately the players for these records are already being made by other groups have realized the blind can be lucratively exploited, but by careful quality control it would be possible to make a record that could only be played three or four times, encouraging your vic...er... subscribers to buy two, three, or even MORE issues of the same magazine! This same idea can be borne in mind when formulating the "scratch and sniff" spots adjacent to each inflatable centerfold.
Finally, helping the blind will give you a great moral position next time you are attacked by the Moral Majority. After all, what have they done for the disabled lately?
Sincerely,
Dave Redneck
Toad Suck, Arkansas