[3] Gerrie Lim, formerly a writer for AVN (Adult Video News) has classified Hardcore's works as gonzo pornography and "testing the limits of acceptability".

[6] 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.

Just before the case was brought to trial in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition) that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional.

"[14] On October 5, 2005, while Little was in Barcelona to attend an international FICEB Erotic Expo, the offices of Max World Entertainment were raided by the FBI.

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.S.C.

After the FBI raid, Little released the following statement: Once again, the government is wasting tax dollars and otherwise invaluable law enforcement resources to try to force a minority view of morality on all of America.

[23] After release from prison, Little continued appearing in scenes, using a strap-on dildo in later years because his ability to maintain an erection was compromised following a prostate surgery in 2015.

[1] According to his business partner, Little had finished chemotherapy for thyroid cancer when he was hospitalized with an infection in his throat that spread to other parts of his body, causing septic shock, pneumonia and organ failure.