Penthouse The Magazine for Men | Vol. 4. No.5. | May 1969

by Bob Guccione

Magazine (paper), 1969

Status

Available

Publication

Penthouse Publications Ltd. | Volume 4, Number 5

User reviews

LibraryThing member Sylak
This issue has 11 pages of soft-core pornography + the obsequious centre-fold. It's a 'top shelf' publication so it is to be expected; still, for a 'Men's magazine' the nude photography is no different than one would expect to find in an artist's book of nude poses. In fact where the odd full
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frontal photograph would certainly be permitted in an art book, Penthouse's shots are decisively less risqué (at this stage in the magazine's history anyway). Although, I note a marked increase in the number of pages given over to tits and bums from the previous year, the editorial content still outweighs the naked females 3:1.

The main articles include:

An interview with Prof. Francis Camps in The Post Mortem Professor.

A Close-up of the underground press phenomenon.

Three pages of illustrative typography in Figuratively Speaking that is well worth a look if you are a fan of graphic design.

A science fiction story by Pete Hammerton titled Sirens of Sappho - Sappho III --- a planet of girls, where an out-of-this-world welcome awaits a visiting spaceman...if he can make it through the flesh-consuming pingpods. They certainly don't write them like that anymore. LOL!

A travel article on Tenerife in Canary Mellow.

is a historical account of the seedier side of the Barbary coast c.1850, taken from Stephen Longstreet's book 'The Wilder Shore'.

The fox who foolded the hounds is a fable of our time by Rory Harrity and reminded me a bit of Dahl's Fantastic Mister Fox.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1969-05
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