Paul F. Little August 10, β March 27, was an American pornographic actor, producer, and director better known by his stage name Max Hardcore. Max Hardcore's films generally consist of sexual acts executed by himself, with women, often porn industry newcomers who act like girls or their upset mothers. The sexual situations depicted in Max Hardcore's films frequently include acts such as urinating on his female co-stars, fisting them, or inserting specula into their anuses or vaginas and widening them to extreme degree.
The treatment by Hardcore of his female co-stars has been described by several critics as occasionally abusive and the tone of Hardcore's work has been considered misogynistic. Max Hardcore's films and alleged work methods reportedly made him "among the most hated men in the industry".
Based on Max Extreme 4 , the city of Los Angeles in charged him with child pornography and distribution of obscenity. That the actress was over the age of 18 was not disputed; charges were brought because the actress was portraying a character who was underage. Just before the case was brought to trial in , the U. Supreme Court ruled in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional.
Based on this ruling, the child pornography charges against Little 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. Little commented after the trial that it "was a frivolous waste of public resources.
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 record-keeping law 18 U.
