Posted on 01/19/2016 8:11:20 AM PST by Drew68
The glory days of gentlemen's magazines are fading fast.
Penthouse Magazine, the long-running and raunchier rival of Playboy, said Friday that it is ending its print edition after 50 years on the newsstand and will now only be offered in digital format.
"Reimagined for the preferred consumption of content today by consumers, the digital version of Penthouse Magazine will combine and convert everything readers know and love about the print magazine experience to the power of a digital experience," publisher FriendFinder Network said in a statement.
The move comes just months after Playboy announced that it would no longer publish nude photographs as part of a broad redesign that will be unveiled in March.
Adult magazines have long struggled with adapting to the digital era. They were among the first media outlets to see their audiences slip away as wide varieties of adult content became available online.
Penthouse, which once sold over 5 million copies, has endured a rocky path over the past decade since founder Bob Guccione filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and lost control of the company. In 2013, FriendFinder Networks, which also operates a variety of adult social-networking sites, filed for bankruptcy and ceased being publicly traded.
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It was Clinton who mainstreamed porn.
Before then, no one ever discussed a BJ in polite society.
Don't know, he was only in the neighborhood a couple years.
There were always some bikes in his front yard, my mom would have nailed me to the garage if she caught me over there though.
No more having the pages getting stuck together!
Man, living at home is such a drag.
Now your mom threw away your best porno mag (Busted!)
You gotta fight....for your right....to PAAAAAAARTY!
Regarding stumbling upon the skinny-dipping women — my young dream come true. Of course I also fantasized about the Petticoat Junction girls swimming in the water tank tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jx2jEPvh88
Good for wanking off too - if nothing else, so-called skin mags came in quite handy for relieving fantasies...
Today, that thrill is gone forever.
My dad read Playboy and Penthouse for a few years during the magazines' glory days of the late 70s. I remember hitting puberty in the early 80s and discovering his hidden stash in a box on the top shelf of his closet. For a 12-year old boy, it was like striking gold.
I think about kids today with all the porn they could possibly imagine only a mouse click away on the internet. I just can't help but think there's going to be problems.
The only fat nerdy kid in the history of grade school who was never picked on.
Porn is boring because there’s too much of it. The novelty is gone.
That’s why Penthouse, to employ a particularly apropos turn of phrase, has gone bust now.
I never really cared much about Petticoat Junction but the open is still memorable.
I don’t understand the business model ???? But I hear rumors that there’s tons and tons and long tons (though few short tons) of porno for FREE on the Internet. ( so what am I doing typing this little note here?!). “Hard” to figure why anyone would pay to look at penthouse online
I really don’t see how a lot of print magazines stay in business these days.
Also lost to history is the topless calendar seen on the wall of any auto repair or machine shop. Back in the day, suppliers handed them out like candy. No matter how strict a young boy’s mother might be at home, there was always the prospect of a sighting whenever dad took his son to a grease monkey’s domain.
The rise of digital media is relevant because its much more convenient to read everything on your tablet.
E-books are popular for that reason.
Honestly, I don't even understand the internet business model. I know there are pay sites but do people really pay for them when there is so much free content? Yet girls don't have sex on camera for free so someone's paying for it.
Number one Internet content — free porno. Number two- cat pictures. Number three - Hillary email deletions. Number 4: dicks sporting goods spam. Number 5: sprint cellular spam.
I remember when the Sears catalogue was enticing for a 12 year old.
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