Penthouse Forum

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First issueMarch 1968;57 years ago (1968-03)
CompanyPenthouse World Media
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
ISSN 1043-0210
OCLC 19252232

Penthouse Forum, sometimes simply Forum, is a British/American pornographic magazine published by Penthouse World Media, the parent company of the American magazine Penthouse .

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History and profile

Penthouse Forum was started in March 1968 in the UK and featured letters, articles on health, medicine psychology and social relationships. [1] Its subtitle was International Journal of Human Relations. [1] The first American edition of Penthouse Forum was published in 1971 and became the fastest-growing national magazine by 1978. [1] In the 1970s, Forum was one of the most-sold magazines in America. [2] In 1996, Forum had 400,000 subscribers. [3]

The "letters" section of the magazine became popular, resulting in the creation of another Penthouse publication, Penthouse Letters. [4]

Notable contributors

Many of the editorial staff and half of the letterwriters whose contributions were published were women. [1]

Alastair Campbell, a journalist and Tony Blair's former director of communications, was a contributor to the magazine, [5] [6] as was Chad Varah, the founder of The Samaritans charity and an Anglican priest, who was a consultant on sex education for the magazine.

In July 2006 the rights to the UK edition were licensed to Trojan Publishing. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McEntire, Dee L. (1992). "Erotic Storytelling: Sexual Experience and Fantasy Letters in Forum Magazine". Western Folklore. 51 (1): 81–96. doi: 10.2307/1499646 . ISSN   0043-373X. JSTOR   1499646.
  2. ↑ Lupton, David Walker (1979-03-20). "Newsstand Magazines and the Public Library". Public Library Quarterly. 1 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1300/J118v01n01_07. ISSN   0161-6846.
  3. ↑ Russell, Diana E. H. (1998-05-14). Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny and Rape. SAGE. p. 29. ISBN   978-0-7619-0525-7.
  4. ↑ Jenkins, Henry (2006). ""He's in the Closet but He's Not Gay": Male-Male Desire in Penthouse Letters". In Lehman, Peter (ed.). Pornography: Film and Culture. Rutgers University Press. ISBN   978-0-8135-3871-6.
  5. ↑ Maev Kennedy (30 November 2010). "Bad sex award goes to novelist Rowan Somerville". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Rocha, Leon Antonio (2012-09-01). "The way of sex: Joseph Needham and Jolan Chang" . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Centre and Periphery in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg 'Medical Empire'. 43 (3): 611–626. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.04.002. ISSN   1369-8486. PMID   22652507.
  7. ↑ Simon Bowers, "Flotation for porn publisher", The Guardian , 12 February 2008


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