Alan MacDonell

Prisoner of X is former Hustler editor Alan MacDonell’s memoir. Reason has an entertaining interview with him.

Reason: What’s the connection between Hustler’s sexual content and the oddball political content, like Larry’s JFK conspiracy theories?

Allan MacDonell: The connection is that at Hustler we valued sensationalism, and a winning conspiracy theory must be sensationalistic. There were very few restrictions on reality at Hustler. We created an alternate world with our manufactured biographies of the models and our fake letters of sexual confessions. So a straight-faced exposé of extraterrestrials committing date rape seemed right at home.

Former Hustler editor Alan MacDonell exposes himself