Penthouse was the raunchy, vivid, real foil to Playboy’s highbrow sensibilities, and one of its most important feats was to give us a window into each other’s sex lives thanks to its Forum magazine. And this week, we’re covering how they got the idea, where they took it, how they turned the dirty confessional into a mainstay of virtually every online community in the process, and the surprising directions in which the brand would branch out.
Resources and further reading…
– Cybertruck / Brubaker Box (October 1978, pp. 141-143)
– Rejected Penthouse Letters
– Complete Penthouse Letters
– Naughty By Nature, Penthouse Letters From All Women
– Penthouse Comix
– Nintendo Nude Pin-up Trading Cards
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