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NEWPORT - Local entrepreneur Larry Flynt announced on Saturday that he plans to open "Heavenly Bodies: The Exhibition", an exhibit of bodies in direct competition to "Bodies: The Exhibition" currently being shown at the Museum Center.
"I'm giving museum-goers a choice," said Flynt, "You can see a bunch of dead guys with their skin peeled off at the other exhibit, or you can see lovely Tiffani here peel off her tight jeans. What better way to learn about human anatomy than by having Tiffani show you?"
"And unlike any of the bodies in that other exhibit, Tiffani is giving full consent to show her body in our exhibit," Flynt added.
Although Cincinnati's obscenity laws allow for the display of dead human bodies with the skin stripped away, Flynt cannot lawfully open an exhibit here of live human bodies with just the clothes stripped away.
In attempts to put his exhibit in a "museum" context, Flynt had hoped on holding his exhibit at the "Creation Museum" in Northern Kentucky, but negotiations with them quickly broke down. "There's always the Brass Ass in Newport," said Flynt.
Local Catholic Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk quickly issued a statement asking area Catholic schools to refrain from organizing field trips to "Heavenly Bodies".
"If parents, as the primary educators of their children, believe that it has educational value, then they should be the ones to take their children to see it," said Pilarczyk.
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