When did Penthouse go XXX?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’m at Atlanta airport waiting to fly back across the puddle to home. Lufthansa just informed me that I might be asked to take the next day’s flight, but they would give me a $800 certificate, hotel, food, and a phone credit. So, making plans for that night. I’m alone, I haven’t seen my wife in 2 weeks, I’m just going to be sitting in a hotel room waiting for 24 hours…Hmmm…Let’s go to the bookstore.

Time has an article on Yoga- cool, I’ll get it. Newsweek has an article on the future of tech jobs- cool, it’s mine. What else? Oh. Looky here. Penthouse! I haven’t seen a Penthouse for over 10 years I bet. That nicely naughty little porno mag that has those great letters, funny cartoons, and women who aren’t afraid to act a little sleazy for the camera- but not too much. No, Penthouse is the midpoint between Playboy and a hardcore mag- right? A little teasing, a little lesbian kissing, but nothing too graphic, and, um, shoved down your throat…OK, I’ll get it. I might be here doing nothing else but reading for the next day, might as well masturbate.

Well, the plane wasn’t full, so I made it back home. But the wife was out of town for a business trip herself, so I’ve got 3 days to myself. What to do? Oh yeah, I bought a Penthouse. Same plan, I just have to clean the sheets, not housekeeping personnel. I’ll just pull it out of my backpack, open it up and…

WOWWZER Whatthefuck? I was able to buy this at an airport??? When did Penthouse go triple-X? Are all porno mags like that nowadays? I mean, jeez! I opened up to a photo shoot of two women decked out in red and yellow leather Harley-bitch teddies sticking color-coordinated leather dildo’s into each other with some biker guy shoving his prick down their throats! It even had 3D pics that require those special glasses! Then there is the black-and-white spread of two lesbians taking turns with a strap-on, or the other 2 or 3 layouts with close-up cum-shots and nothing left to the imagination…

WOW. My puritanical little soul has been shocked. I mean, yeah, I’ve seen XXX before, but there was something nice about the style and teasing of not-quite-penetrating tongues. If this is what Penthouse is like now, I wonder what the magazines like Hustler and, and, and, um…Well, actually, I only know Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler. But is this what they all do now?

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I just want to say that this:

would be a great sig line…

Zette

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Penthouse went hardcore a couple years ago, as I recall…shocked hell outta ME, too!!

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I used to subscribe to Penthouse and a couple years ago, whammo… same thing. I had been getting it because it was, besides good reading, rather erotic. They were fun pictures that left imagination open. Then it suddenly turned into a Hustler, just with cuter girls. It took the fun out of it, so now it’s just Playboy and Maxim for me. Occasionally I’ll buy one if it has an article that I want to read, but I don’t subscribe to it anymore.

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Hey, I just had a similar experience! When did Scientific American go softcore? It used to be heavy duty science for the intellectually curious layman. Yes, maybe a bit turgid and sometimes heavy going, but there was real substance to it. Tonight I was in the local magazine store and noticed that it’s now indistinguishable from say, Discover Magazine.
Short articles, big type, even the cover graphics have been tarted up. I double-checked just in case it was a special edition – Scientific American for the early teens. I’m not sure I like what this says about American reading public (including yours truly).

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YOUR FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! Are you serious? …Holy shit its been a loooooonnnnngggg time since I bought a penthouse I guess! I would think your pulling my leg if it wasnt for the other posters.

I used to “read” {i.e. spank to} penthouse all the time. Worst they ever had was female tounges near female crotches.

I would never have thunk it.

[sub]Hmmmm… penthouse may be on my new grocery list :)[/sub]

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I realised that I was getting old when I noticed that I really was buying Playboy for the articles. :eek:

I still buy penthouse for the pics. It went hardcore about 18 months to 2 years ago.

I think that it is raunchier that Hustler now. :frowning:

Oh, well.

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Bah… only Ned Flanders would think that Penthouse is hardcore.

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I’ve watched Sci Am turn into a festering pile of softcore over-politicized garbage over the last couple years. It has saddened me greatly.

I’ve got to wonder how porn magazines even stay in business in this day and age of the internet.

“But dad, the internet is so much more than just a giant pornography network…” --Lisa Simpson.

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Fear of blackouts.

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But that only explains it for California…

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Well, I don’t know, SPOOFE… maybe it’s just me, but I considered the photo layout with the woman fisting herself to be hardcore. Just my opinion, though.

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Have they given up that ‘pissing’ phase they went through for a while? I would pick one up every once in a while and I would hit two or three pictures of women taking a leak. Not only that, there were fawning letters to the editor about how wonderful this was.

I swore that I wouldn’t go near another one of those until I knew the coast was clear. Or dry.

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Actually, I think Playboy’s been pushing it’s own boundaries recently, too. From the little bit I’ve seen, the Playmates have gotten more daring - I’ve seen more open-legged shots than used to be. And with the new girls’ propensity towards shaving clean, there’s hardly anything left between the camera lens and a great pair of lips. :slight_smile:

'nother thing… I just recently saw a few pics from the Brazillian Playboy and was quite surprised to see they were closer to what I remember Gallery pictures being like. The girls were DEFINITELY not shy. 'course, being Brazillian, they didn’t shave as much… :frowning:

So, it appears things are progressing. I wonder how long until Dubya finds his own version of Ed Meese?

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I thought National Geographic was plenty graphic as a teenager. All those nude women, wow.

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You know, for a brief moment I was hoping that I stumbled upon the one Penthouse that missed the editor’s table and was bound to become an underground collector’s item…

Oh well, better luck next time.

I think I’m going to subscribe to Libido. Classier erotic images and stories. Bitch of an international rate though…

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“I think I’m going to subscribe to Libido. Classier erotic images and stories. Bitch of an
international rate though…”

Penthouse owns dozens of other xxx magazines. This might be one.

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Penthouse is raunchier than Hustler now. And the girls are better looking. Hustler has more pictorials and I like the “Beaver Hunt” section.

Libido is a cool mag. I need to renew.

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My basic view toward Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler models has always been thus:

Playboy models: T&A in dumb movies.

Hustler models: Cheap hookers.

Penthouse models: Expensive hookers.

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So, Tomcat, get to the point. Was it good for you?