Good Bye Penthouse... Magazine soon to cease publication...

[RememberJohn]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/940928.asp?0cv=KA01

Lots of memories... especially the infamous Vanessa Williams issue!

[SOteric]

1. We just KNOW

you only read it for the articles.

[RememberJohn]

3. I used to smuggle them into my parent's house

...wrapped around my leg covered by my sock. All that trouble just to read articles!

[shanti]

14. ah, the sock trick!

works for many things, lol!

[mitchum]

24. That was my technique, also!

And of course I would have a dime bag in the other sock...

[Enraged_Ape]

40. Ha ha! I used to do that too!

Usually one in both socks, and maybe one down the front of the pants covered by my t-shirt.

I'm sure my parents knew why I was walking like Lurch from the Addams Family.

[ForrestGump]

19. It has articles?

Oh.......*ahem*......yes, of course.......cutting edge, cutting edge.

This is the end of an era. My prostate is feling so cold and hollow. Not that I've placed my sweaty little hands on one in an awful long time (I'm talking about the magazine here....jeez).

If it wasn't for this magazine, my first intimate experience might not have been quite the earthshattering event that it was for my partner. Okay, so I don't know if it was earthshattering for her, or not, but it'd have been considerably less so if I didn't know what the bits were, or what to do with them, from a bit of judicious route planning over preceding years. Be prepared - the Boy Scouts taught me that. Always knew it'd come in handy.

[oustemnow]

26. EXCELLENT Salma pic, Forrest

and as for the topic of the thread, all I can say is "Yay," as I work for the competition.

[ForrestGump]

31. Lots of competition nowadays, I guess!

Salma says 'hi,' by the way.

I mean, I'm sure that she would if she were here.

[nuxvomica]

2. How will freshmen from large Midwestern universities tell their stories?

Actually, I thought it was already out of business.

[RememberJohn]

4. I never thought I'd be writing to Penthouse...

...but I had an experience with a waffle house waitress Saturday night that I just HAVE to share... I'm a student at a Midwest university...

[Syrinx]

5. It seems they would being doing good business

Since their main competitor, Playboy, has been reduced to a Maxim-wannabe lately.

[RememberJohn]

6. Internet killed the magazine star....

... Internet killed the magazine star... In my mind and in my car... oh ohohoh oh!

[HawkerHurricane]

10. Funny you put it that way

Since I've been saying Maxim in nothing but a Playboy written for 14 year olds for years.

[Syrinx]

12. Playboy used to be a great magazine

Now all intelligence has vanished from it. Even the playmates are boring, all cookie-cutter plastic. The once-great Playboy Interview has taken to featuring the likes of Tom Green and Jimmy Kimmel, not exactly "great minds," in my opinion. Sometimes I take out the old issues from the early eighties and do some reading (among other things).

[Nikia]

7. Darn it

This might sound strange coming from a feminist hetrosexual married woman. I liked it. I really did. I thought that the articles were very good. I also liked the letters.

[RememberJohn]

8. I used to buy their digest "Variations" when I was in college...

[TheBigGuy]

9. Penthouse was sort of special in the 1970s...

...back when i used to 'read' it.

I recall it had something Playboy didnt have much of....lesbian scenes. For some reason I found those lesbian photo spreads pretty hot.

[baldguy]

11. A mag only perverted gynecologists could love.

When I'm lusting after a woman, I don't need to give her a pap smear!

WAY too much information.

[shanti]

13. lol, net porn took over

no reason to pay for it, right?

[muchacho]

15. Bob Guccione

Wow Bob Guccione look a lot like Liza Minllelli's husband.

[Paragon]

16. I think this added 10 years to his life

[TheBigGuy]

22. is this a veiled ref to prostrate cancer?

Im sure Penthouse added 10 years to alot of folks lives!

[mkregel]

17. Never really liked Penthouse

I never liked the dreamy cheesecloth blurry photography they did. Playboy was OK.

To be honest, I prefer seeing everyday people naked :)

[Enraged_Ape]

18. It really degenerated in the last couple of years

Almost every issue featured a pictorial of a woman urinating.

At least...so I'm told.

WTF is with that?

[Syrinx]

20. "degenerated" That's funny.

I haven't bought a Penthouse in a long time. I remember picking one up at Books-A-Million about 1999, and being really surprised that the mag had gone hardcore. They've always been a little more explicit than Playboy, but now they were showing "penetration." I didn't realize that Bob had also gotten into water sports!

[ForrestGump]

23. Boy, I remember a kinder, gentler magazine

Nothing ever went in to anything. Weird.

I mean, it's not weird at all - it's the most natural thing in the world to do - but it's weird that it showed up in that magazine, even though they always were more explicit than the Hefster's publication.

That whole tinkling thing.....well, some people enjoy it, so who'm I to rain on their parade (no untoward precipitation imagery intended), but it's not for me. Let me clarify: not in that context...of course she'd have to do that, or her bladder woud explode, but just not on me, or in pictures that I look at.

Maybe it's just as well they're shutting their doors.

[BiggJawn]

27. Yeah, that was a shocker for me, too!

I remember the fury when Vanessa got "munched", so when I picked up a copy 2 years ago and saw a "Wet Shot"....
And piss....

[oustemnow]

29. urination is VERY HOT!

so to speak. AS a member of the industry, I can tell you that the first pee shots were thrown in about five years ago as a lark, and "reader" response went through the roof. As for the appeal, I don't know; I guess it's just seeing the chick do something "dirty" (plus, a lot of guys are confused about where a woman's urethra resides, as opposed to her vaginal opening, and this helps clarify things for them). Personally, it's not my cup of pee.

[mitchum]

32. So...Chuck Berry is not alone

[ForrestGump]

33. Isn't he (*gag*) more into 'Number 2'?

What a ding-a-ling....

Enough to make me upChuck.

[mitchum]

36. Chuck is Number 1 and Number 2 with a bullet!

Why do geniuses have such odd habits?

[oustemnow]

34. Not by a long shot!

(oh, God, the puns are just, uh, pouring out of me tonight). Actually, I think Chuck was into the scat play as well. Roll over, Beethoven, and gimme some poo-sprayed ooze!

[ForrestGump]

35. Thanks for the nightmare....

Glad I never shook his hand. Bleh.

[oustemnow]

37. You shoulda shook his hand

The man was a genius, even if, from what I understand, he's something of a prick to his sidemen.

By the way, I hereby demand the source of that Salma-with-handcuffs pic. Best to let me know without a fuss; you wouldn't like me when I'm horny.

[ForrestGump]

38. I'll tell you where the Salma pic came from if

you assign me to be the photographer when and if she does a session for your magazine. :-)

[oustemnow]

39. would an assignment holding the light meter be sufficient?

not that she'd ever spread for bread, and probably not for the artistic merit of it either. Oh well; I guess we'll have to love her just the way she is, that is to say usually clothed.

[mitchum]

21. Sad news... Bob Guccione was always my kind of "pornographer"

I shared Bob's bourgeois aesthetic- "We'll have some hot girl on girl action in a villa, and run some lines of Christina Rossetti beneath the pictures" I truly admire Flynt as a provocateur, but his vision never really did it for me. And Hefner? He has no aesthetic. He's always been a pathetic arrested adolescent, publishing replicants of the same cheerleader he lusted after as a young lad.
God, I remember the "good old days" of being 14, walking into a convenience store, and saying 'Give me a pack of Marlboros and the new Penthouse" And no one blinked an eye...

[Syrinx]

25. Hef has no aesthetic?

The women in his mag were beautiful and varied until Hef's straight female daughter took over the magazine. (Well, I assume she's straight, because I never heard otherwise.)

But I, too, miss the more libertine days of America.

[mitchum]

28. Hefner's whole deal was to present women as a a big ticket

consumer item (like a sports car or a "big lawyer stereo") Thats the "ex"-adman at work. Christ, Playboy didn't arouse me even at 14 (and that's the age when a bumpy car ride could do the trick) Maybe Hefner does have an aesthetic, it's just a banal one.

[Syrinx]

30. His mantra was always "the girl next door"

Which I liked. But lately, these aren't the girls next door, unless you live in a Los Angeles apartment building full of "aspiring actresses" with fake boobs and blank expressions.

[Mountainman]

41. I always liked Wicked Wanda

That was a great toon. I would by a Penthouse and leave it laying around. My wife would pic it up and read the stories people sent in. They really turned her on. Those were the days.

[GregW]

42. Probably a good thing - think of all the kittens saved ....

Lord knows I've offed a few due to Penthouse :eyes: