Alvin "Al" Goldstein (January 10, 1936 – December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer who is known for normalizing hardcore pornography in the United States.He was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "a cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of borscht belt comic, free-range social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a moment in New York City's cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and ‘70s."