Gene Gregorits


Justin Gene Gregorits is an American writer, editor, publisher, and convicted sex offender. He founded and published Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal, that ran from 1997 to 2004. Subsequent works include Johnny Behind The Deuce, Sex & Guts Anthology, Sex & Guts 4, Midnight Mavericks, Dog Days: Volume One, Dog Days: Volume Two, Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, and Fishhook. Gregorits' most recent works have been described as having running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death. He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline In 2012 he served as the jury head for the 13th Melbourne Underground Film Festival and was instrumental for Donkey Love, a film about bestiality, being awarded Best Documentary.

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In 2013, Gregorits has had some widespread notoriety after he cut part of his own ear off with a razor blade and ate the severed lobe, while filming the event. On 3 August 2014 Justin Gene Gregorits was arrested for sexual battery and on 12 February 2016 convicted of Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors 16/17 yr old; F.S. 794.05.
He was received by the Florida Department of Corrections on 2/23/16 and has a tentative release date not before 4/13/24.