PARIS — Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt celebrated his 62nd birthday at his Paris strip club, with a nervous eye on the presidential election back home.

“Perhaps it will be necessary that I think of moving elsewhere, but actually I don’t even dare to think of it,” Flynt told The Associated Press Monday during a party with friends and family at his 2-year-old Hustler Club, just off the Champs-Elysees.

Flynt said he feared the re-election of President Bush would lead to an erosion of civil liberties, citing the 2001 anti-terrorism Patriot Act.

“I hope that the undecided really will raise the question of personal freedoms before voting, but personally, I feel sick thinking of four more years of Bush in charge,” he said.