Penthouse retaliated, along with Playboy and the American Booksellers Association, by filing a suit against the Commission, charging it with violating the First Amendment. By the end of the campaign, some 20,000 retail and convenience stores had been dissuaded from carrying the adult titles. Bowing to the pressure, Southland Corporation, parent company of 7-11 convenience stores, announced that it would no longer sell either Penthouse or Playboy in its 4,500 outlets. ![]() Sending its warning on Justice Department stationary, the Commission advised several large booksellers and retail chains that they would be named. One of the more damaging campaigns came in 1986 when Attorney General Edwin Meese and an 11-member Commission on Pornography sought to intimidate retailers by publishing a blacklist of pornography distributors. Throughout the Reagan era, Penthouse was ravaged by attacks from Christian right-wing conservative groups such as the National Federation for Decency. Guccione's enterprise was anything but smooth sailing during the 1980s. Working from the nine-story mansion he shared with Keeton on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Guccione became known for his gold chains and lavish lifestyle. Although Penthouse (a subsidiary of General Media Publishing) continued to grow and diversify over the next three decades, the company remained privately owned by Guccione and his companion, Kathy Keeton, whose operation was something of a Mom-and-Pop arrangement, staffed by several members of Guccione's family. In 1969, the magazine was moved to the United States, where it expanded into a publishing dynasty that included Forum (1975), Penthouse Letters (1981), and several non-erotic ventures, such as Omni, a consumer science magazine (1978), Compute (1979), and Longevity (1989). In 1965, Guccione launched the London-based Penthouse, with slightly racier pictorials as well as investigative stories. Following the 1953 debut of Hugh Hefner's erotic magazine, Bob Guccione rightly sensed that men might prefer to see a bit "more flesh" than was being offered by Playboy. Jacqueline Marie Phillips – December Penthouse Pet 1999Ĭopyright 2016 KathyKC for Doodledansdeals.Penthouse, "the international magazine for men," became a household name along with its number one competitor, Playboy, during the 1960s and 1970s era of "free love" and sexual revolution. Nanna Gibson (Nana Elliot, Dina Jewel) – February Natalie Lennox (Lace -American Gladiators) – Januaryġ997 – Pet of the Year Elizabeth Ann Hilden Here is our guide to the Hard Penthouse Pets of the 90s 1990 – Pet of the Year Stephanie PageĪmy Lynn Baxter – June Penthouse Pet 1990 Toward the end of the 1990’s Penthouse would delve into simulated, (and sometimes not simulated) sex in pictorials. His “Alien Autopsy” adventuring was a great example of this. This would lead Guccione to pay millions for access to what usually ended up being a hoax. He also became more and more enticed by the thrill of conspiracy, real or imagined. ![]() The magazine started featuring a larger number of Porn actresses as Pets. It was a move that didn’t go the way he planned. Guccione decided he would return to his roots, and go harder and more explicit than Playboy was willing. The beleaguered magazine had lost it’s lead over Playboy due to the scandals of the 80s. The 90s saw a change in direction for Penthouse.
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