(There were a few times during the 70's and 80's where Penthouse was even ahead of Playboy for subscriptions and newsstand sales.)
Almost from the start, Penthouse pictorials showed female genitalia and pubic hair when this was considered by many to be obscene.ĭuring the 1970s and 80's and into the early 90's Penthouse was often regarded as the main rival against Playboy in terms of circulation and popularity. An April 2002 #pu#New York Times#pu# article reported Guccione as saying that Penthouse grossed $3.5 billion to $4 billion over the 30-year life of the company, with net income of almost half a billion dollars.įor many years, Penthouse fell between #pu#Playboy#pu# and #pu#Hustler#pu# in its explicitness and general attitude toward sexual depictions, with Playboy being visually softer and less focused on female genitals and with Hustler going for a raunchier look and content often consisting of toilet humor. He was once listed in the Forbes 400 ranking of wealthiest people (1982). At the height of his success, Guccione, who died in 2010, was considered to be one of the richest men in the United States. Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in 1965 in the United Kingdom, but beginning in September 1969 was sold in the United States as well. whose parent company was Penthouse International Inc. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Our PENT Back Issues inventory follows this synopsis.
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