The magazine was founded on humble beginnings. Karpel, James Dale Davidson, and Ernest Volkman exposed numerous scandals and corruption at the highest levels of the United States Government. Guccione offered editorial content that was more sensational than that of Playboy, and the magazine's writing was far more investigative than Hefner's upscale emphasis, with stories about government cover-ups and scandals. Penthouse magazine began publication in 1965, in the UK and in North America in 1969, an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy. The magazine's centerfold models are known as Penthouse Pets and customarily wear a distinctive necklace inspired by this logo.īob Guccione: At the height of his success, Guccione, who died in 2010, was considered one of the richest men in the United States. The Penthouse logo is a stylized key which incorporates both the Mars and Venus symbols in its design. Beginning in September 1969, it was sold in the United States as well. Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in 1965 in the United Kingdom. It combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione. Rather it is a collection of the pictures I personally like, mainly from what I consider to be the "golden years", the 1970's and 1980's. Please note: My collection of Men Only magazine photos is not meant to be "comprehensive". Models have included Mary Millington, Jo Guest, Anette Dawn, Linsey Dawn McKenzie, and Bobbi Eden. Photographers from the early years included Fred Enke and R.B. The early issues of Men Only often contained serious articles and interviews, though since the 1980s these have largely been omitted. Over the years, models featured in Men Only have also appeared in different photo-shoots in Club International (a title bought from IPC). Men Only is a British soft-core pornographic magazine published by Paul Raymond Publications since 1971, and it was the main competitor to Mayfair during the 1970s and 1980s (Raymond latterly took over Mayfair). Please note: My collection of Mayfair magazine photos is not meant to be "comprehensive". For many of us though, the heyday of Mayfair remains the 1970s, when it could be found in many a city gent’s briefcase and had a circulation of over 300,000. It has, therefore, moved with the times, and can hardly be criticised for that. It’s still published by PRP today, and is more explicit, more laddish and less self-consciously sophisticated than in the past, something reflected on modern covers. After a management buy-out in 1982, Bound sold the magazine to Paul Raymond Publications. How true these minor claims to fame were is open to question. If a girl had once cut the Queen’s hair, she was ‘the Queen’s hairdresser’, and so on. One of the Mayfair traits was to feature minor celebrities (in an age before celebrity culture was rampant) – game show hostesses, Girls, beauty queens, wives and girlfriends of the famous, publicity seeker and the like – and women who had done ‘something’ that could be hyped on the cover. For many years, it attracted a great deal of mainstream advertising and was one of the few adult magazines carried by WH Smiths. The magazine had a fascination with William Burroughs, curiously. Quite the editorial run. Mayfair emulated Playboy and Penthouse by pitching itself as a sophisticated, middle-class gentlemen’s magazine, mixing not-especially explicit nude spreads (even by 1981, it was featuring fully nude women with partially opened legs, but with genitals airbrushed out of sight into a dark, pubic hair-heavy forbidden zone) with non-sexual male interests (cars, sport, tech), humour, fiction and general interest articles. Published by Fisk Publishing, the first issue was edited by Graham Masterton – author of The Manitou and other horror novels – but from issue two was in the hands of Kenneth Bound, who remained the editor until 1990. It launched in 1965 and is still going today, although of course unrecognisable from its glory days. Mayfair is Britain’s longest surviving men’s soft porn magazine (if we disregard Penthouse, which launched in London the same year but soon shifted to the US). Click the folder thumbnail or use the tree view on the left to see their contents.įrench Nadine - had a web site which was active in the early 2000's, one of my all time favorites, mature, curvy, hairy, well dressed, stockings, lots of outdoor / public sets, some hardcore often with multiple men.
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