Guccione built his reputation being more sordid than (Playboy founder) Hugh Hefner, it shouldn't shock anybody that he is being even more sordid than he himself has been in the past," said Bob Peters, president of Morality in Media.įrom the beginning, Penthouse has always been the naughtier of the two magazines. They'll sell out."įoes of pornography - who persuaded most major convenience and drugstore chains to drop the magazines in the mid-1980s - said they were not surprised. No doubt in some areas they'll try to ban it, but he'll wave the American flag, he'll get news coverage, and that will help sales. He knows this is going to be inflammatory. Kelly, a media/business columnist at the New York Daily News, predicted the issue would be a big hit. "We're not in any way desperate," he said. He acknowledged the magazine's circulation loss but said it had flowed to other parts of his adult-entertainment empire, such as the hugely successful Internet site, which he said gets 5 million to 8 million hits a day. "They're very much in love, a great young couple," he said. Guccione said a "pet of the month" told him about the performance artists, who go by the names Saxon and Steele and who are painted silver in the pictures. "Penthouse figures people can see this stuff elsewhere, they might as well see it here," Cohn said. In publishing the intercourse photos, he said, Penthouse hurdled "the last barrier" for mainstream men's magazines. Those magazines had great cachet in the '50s, '60s, '70s, but times have changed." "There's the Internet, videos, pay-per-view, cable. "You don't need these magazines now to get that sort of thing," said Steven Cohn, editor of Media Industry Newsletter, which covers the magazine and newspaper businesses. At its peak in 1977, Penthouse sold 4.6 million copies last year's circulation was just more than 1 million, according to the Magazine Publishers of America. Circulation for "men's sophisticate" magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse has plummeted in recent years. all brought to life in physical form," he said.īut industry analysts say the magazine is showing how desperate it is for readers. We are showing art, love and creative expression. "We are breaking new ground in how forthright a magazine can be. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione said he thought "the time was right" for such explicit images. According to Penthouse, the couple are married performance artists who do this sort of thing on stage. The July issue depicts two people engaged in sex, traditionally taboo for mainstream magazines, even those dealing in skin, which always left a little something to the imagination. You will love what you find there.After years of teasing readers with erotic images of the human anatomy in every conceivable position - and some that most people couldn't possibly conceive - Penthouse is going all the way. If you were a fan of Penthouse magazine or you just like gorgeous women in erotic settings, take a trip to the Penthouse. The Penthouse Vault gives us access to all their back issues now in digital form and Penthouse Gold features all the past and present Pets, hardcore scenes, exclusive galleries with Pets and behind the scenes videos along with much more. Penthouse Variations takes us for a bit of a walk on the wild side with bondage and fetish pictures and stories. There is also the famous Penthouse Letters where erotic stories, some true and some not, are told. It has all the features of the print magazine and then some. The Penthouse network of sites includes the flagship Penthouse Magazine. Now Penthouse has gone digital and their site is not only beautiful and easy to use, it is packed with incredible content that not only harkens back to the days of the magazine, but is also modern, hot, and every erotic. They started in 1965 and since then have been bringing us established models as well as amateurs as they all compete to be a Penthouse Pet. The girls were a little more hardcore, and the action a little more intense. They were always looked at as the edgier version of Playboy. For many years it was a staple on newsstands all over the world.
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