Penthouse Forum

Forum
First issueMarch 1968; 56 years ago (1968-03)
CompanyPenthouse World Media
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
ISSN1043-0210
OCLC19252232

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

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. ^ a b c d 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


Stub icon

This pornographic magazine or journal–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.