WWW- Paris Hilton may develop a whole new following among lesbians now that photos of the hotel heiress making out with another woman have come back to haunt her.

We’ve seen the shots. While they aren’t as hard-core as her infamous sex tape, Larry Flynt finds them arousing enough to publish in Hustler.

The pictures – believed to have been taken about three years ago, when she was 20 – show the “Simple Life” star looking fetching in a leopard-print halter top and low-slung black pants. Her companion is a very pretty brunette (as yet unidentified) who is also wearing a midriff-baring black halter.

The temperature of the two ladies’ intimacy rises in the pictures: First, the brunette has her arms wrapped around Hilton’s hips at what appears to be a club. Then, they’re curled up in a Plexiglas chair. Then, they’re sharing a few delicate kisses. Finally, their tongues appear to be entwined and the other woman has her hand on Hilton’s breast.

Though the women keep their clothes on, Flynt finds the pictures “quite erotic, even artistic, certainly compared to her videotape.”

“I think people will see a new Paris Hilton,” said Flynt.

A poorly lit video that shows two women – alleged to be Hilton and Playboy model Nicole Lenz – having sex has been available on the Internet. But Flynt said, “I’ve seen that tape and I’m not convinced that it is Paris.”

Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt, who sold Flynt the photos, said, “I’ve had the pictures forensically analyzed and there’s no question that’s Paris.”

Hilton’s rep, Gina Hoffman, said she couldn’t reach her client but doubted that the mischievous minx was seriously attracted to her own sex.

Said Hoffman: “Even when Carmen Electra kissed Paris at the MTV Movie Awards, Paris said she didn’t know what to do.”