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Oh. My. God. Has anyone seen the newest Penthouse issue? The centerfold is blah (and that's a NICE way to put it), and the printing is absolute crap. In fact, every layout in this issue is horrible! The only girl in there worth looking twice at is Crystal Klein, who is featured in a short and lame-ass girl/girl. The softcore angle on this mag just ain't workin-- either they're munching box or they're not! What, are they trying to do a really bad version of Playboy? Just when I thought the magazine couldn't get any worse, it does. Bob may have been a bit nuts, but at least he could put out a decent magazine. This is so amatuer looking it blows my mind. Notice the sudden absence of photo credit, too. They must be using some real winners to shoot these sets. Ugh!

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Oh. My. God. Has anyone seen the newest Penthouse issue? The centerfold is blah (and that's a NICE way to put it), and the printing is absolute crap. In fact, every layout in this issue is horrible! The only girl in there worth looking twice at is Crystal Klein, who is featured in a short and lame-ass girl/girl. The softcore angle on this mag just ain't workin-- either they're munching box or they're not! What, are they trying to do a really bad version of Playboy? Just when I thought the magazine couldn't get any worse, it does. Bob may have been a bit nuts, but at least he could put out a decent magazine. This is so amatuer looking it blows my mind. Notice the sudden absence of photo credit, too. They must be using some real winners to shoot these sets. Ugh!

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ok...am i the only one that just got turned on?

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ok...am i the only one that just got turned on?

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I thought Penthouse went bankrupt or some shit, ala Al Goldstein ("The Internet is a Fad"). Who the fuck buys a Penthouse magazine these days anyway besides over 65 men with no computer literacy or access and still decent eyesight??

I dunno, it was a great institution in its heyday.

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but I still like holding a tangible photograph in my hands.

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All over fucking internet rights, too.

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Let's face it. Paper is about 9 times as expensive as it was just 10 years ago. Advertisers now think that buying a page in your magazine entitles them to editorialize your content.

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BINGO! You've obvously got some print experience. This topic could move directly over to the shit list between print shops, advertisers and buying shelf space.

Fuck - where to begin!

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All mass media I think will eventually die out to the internet (With the possible exception of movie theatres). The internet is not only going to be our new entertainment, it is going to be our new drug.

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All mass media I think will eventually die out to the internet (With the possible exception of movie theatres). The internet is not only going to be our new entertainment, it is going to be our new drug.

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Holly,

I haven't seen the new Penthouse but to come to their defense, putting out a quality print publication is extremely difficult because you have to rely on advertisers who pay their bills.

My guess is that most advertisers were pretty skeptical about getting into long term, high $ contract with a mag that was already BK, so revenue was probably pretty low. Reality sucks - unfortunately in the print world 'everybody' wants the ads for zip up front to see if they will pull before making a commitment.

Until Penthouse sees some ad revenue, they'll continue to put out a crappy publication... or fold again.

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I understand the point about the bad printing, but that doesn't excuse the horrible cover. I've posted it just so you guys can see what I'm talking about. Does that picture, of a ho-hum girl on a boring brown background intice you to buy the magazine?

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Holly,

I haven't seen the new Penthouse but to come to their defense, putting out a quality print publication is extremely difficult because you have to rely on advertisers who pay their bills.

My guess is that most advertisers were pretty skeptical about getting into long term, high $ contract with a mag that was already BK, so revenue was probably pretty low. Reality sucks - unfortunately in the print world 'everybody' wants the ads for zip up front to see if they will pull before making a commitment.

Until Penthouse sees some ad revenue, they'll continue to put out a crappy publication... or fold again.

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LOL, I knew my post would go up on lukeisback.com.
I understand the point about the bad printing, but that doesn't excuse the horrible cover. I've posted it just so you guys can see what I'm talking about. Does that picture, of a ho-hum girl on a boring brown background intice you to buy the magazine? I would venture to say no. In fact, I didn't even recognize that it was Penthouse at first glance-- I thought it was a random foreign mag that we get mailed from time to time. Every girl in the biz would love to grace the cover of Penthouse, so it just baffles me why they picked this girl. It just makes me sad, because I always loved the magazine and was so proud to have my work published in it-- and now it's just unrecognizable. And I know the new owner has very deep pockets that he boasted about putting into the publication-- but I don't see that happening here. Do you?

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2. 98% of the American public isn't appalled by this "revelation" because they completely internalized their role as consumers decades ago.

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It's the hardcore shots (including depictions of fisting and pissing) that ended up sending Penthouse to the financial outhouse in the first place. ;-)

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I doubt it.Back then Penthouse mags flew off the shelf.Hustler also published those kinds of layouts but when me and a few others got busted for obscenity here in LA they stopped printing that kind of shit.

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Oh. My. God. Has anyone seen the newest Penthouse issue? Ugh!

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