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It’s those type of stories you used to read in those oh so naughty magazines which leave nothing to the imagination. Despite the magazine’s adult content, Mr Costas said 30 per cent of his readers were female amid a shift to less photography and more in-depth feature stories. They’re not so much the salacious stories any more but if you knew what Penthouse Forum was 30 years ago, you would appreciate what we’ve done with the live shows,” Mr Costas said. If your comment is going to be long, write it in a text editor, and paste it in here when you're done. Web forms have a nasty habit of losing stuff when you hit "Submit". You can use tags like href, b and i, if you know what they are, but don't forget to close them. Also, remember that once you've hit submit you can't edit the post, so do re-read it to make sure you haven't repeated yourself or made the type of error which the pedants here will jump on. That is all. heard the Ford Razzle has double doors and was easy to get into. (Fnar Fnar) The Ford Knave would be more classy.

Fiesta was a British adult magazine featuring softcore pornography, published by Galaxy Publications Limited. [1] It was a sister publication of Knave magazine, launched two years later. [2] Mary Millington modelled for the magazine in 1974, prior to her exclusive signing to work for David Sullivan's magazines. [7]

Pratt, J. (1986). "Pornography and Everyday Life". Theory, Culture & Society. 3: 65–78. doi: 10.1177/0263276486003001006. S2CID 144061458. Neil Gaiman claims that when he was 22 his first job, before becoming a writer of comic books, was as assistant editor at Fiesta and Knave magazines, where he was responsible for typing up the readers’ letters and sorting out the Readers’ Wives (come on, now). Penthouse Forum was the pioneer of a sexual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Each month, readers would write in to a panel of experts who would dish out advice “on the physical and emotional problems arising in day-day life”, it advised. Rewind to October 1979 and while Penthouse Forum had won hearts (among other things) across the globe, Australia was only receiving its first taste. Researchers who have studied penis size concluded that at age 20 the average length of the flaccid penis was 13.02cm and the average relaxed circumference was 8.55cm.”

Mr Costas blamed the move on “financial reasons”, adding “sales at newsagents were less than satisfactory”. Mr Costas told news.com.au a changing view on sex and poor sales were behind the icon’s demise, adding it was sad to see any part of Penthouse’s publishing history disappear but “we move with the times”. In his introductory speech to welcome Mr Yiannopoulos to Sydney, Mr Costas lamented: “The Dear Penthouse letters aren’t as entertaining as they used to be. When birds give me hints to (sleep with) them, I want to, but I can’t because I’m worried about what they will think.” We’ve enjoyed every one of your Forum stories. Even the guy who wrote about f***ing a wet clay statue — Bravo!”

Society at large is more conservative, due to political correctness companies that want to advertise certainly don’t have an appetite to be in a magazine like Penthouse anymore. Will Ford be launching the “Razzle” soon? We’ve had Escort and Fiesta, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find there’s a “gentleman’s periodical” entitled Puma, Probe, or Orion. If there’s one called “Ka” I’m not sure I want to know about it. Mr Yiannopoulos told news.com.au at the time “Australia might need saving from itself sometime soon”. But today the publisher of Penthouse Australia says Australians are no longer interested in reading the salacious letters from the lovelorn and sex starved and in 2015 Damien Costas cut Penthouse Forum— and its letters — from publication.

Mr Costas blamed a “seismic shift in sex and culture” and said the appetite for adult content in print “is completely dead”. Nicholas Whittaker, journalist and author of Platform Souls, Blue Period and Sweet Talk, worked for the company from 1980 to 1982, when he left to go and work for Paul Raymond Publications, where he played a major role in establishing the new Razzle magazine. His experiences at Fiesta and Razzle are the subject of his book Blue Period. [8]