Baring All for Climategate: I'm in Penthouse this month...

Good stuff, Gerard. Whatever anybody thinks about the dead-tree publishing industry, this is gonna show up on magazine racks everywhere.

There was a time when men's mags like Penthouse actually had something to say, and were proud of it. May this be a sign of a resurgence.

Posted by Rob De Witt at March 18, 2010 2:27 PM

Rob's got it right - men's magazines are a natural for information that's not politically correct. You've got to love that Gerard's return to the skin rags will cause a fresh wave of spluttering and foaming from the sanctimonious nannies. He may not be the centerfold, but our guy still gets 'em all hot and bothered!

Posted by Askmom at March 18, 2010 2:50 PM

Speaking as someone who actually knows from long experience exactly what sort of editorial views Penthouse held I cannot possibly express how wrong Stone is about that magazine. If there was, during most of its existence, a "set" of editorial views, they were those of its then owner, Bob Guccione. Whatever one wishes to say about Bob nobody who knew would say his views were any other than his and his alone. "Hollywood-liberal" doesn't come into it.

Posted by vanderleun at March 18, 2010 8:43 PM

Good old Stone, often wrong but never in doubt.

Posted by askmom at March 19, 2010 9:53 AM

Again, from one who knows in detail what the real story was, Guccione's core values were family, America, freedom of speech, and creativity. The way articles were pulled into the magazine and commissioned was far more complex than you think. Guccione believed in giving the editors he hired a wide latitude in what to publish and commission. He didn't do all of it although he approved all of them. Because of the fees paid over the course of many decades pretty much every worthwhile writer in need of a mortgage payment wrote for Penthouse. It isn't that way today. New ownership and what all. You're probably confusing, as many do, Flynt and Guccione. But they were and are vastly different.

Posted by vanderleun at March 19, 2010 1:31 PM

Arthur's preference for "Asslickers" is no surprise, given his taste for the fecal flower that is modern-day liberalism.

Posted by teresa at March 19, 2010 2:14 PM

I've spoken to Arthur about this propensity of his before but he is adamantine in his allegience to it. There is, I guess, no accounting for taste. But you'd think he'd get his doubtings after a life time of giving his all to liberalism and getting only Chlamydia back.

Posted by vanderleun at March 19, 2010 4:22 PM

One can only hope he'll be able to add genital warts and herpes to the list before the party's over.

Excellent article, by the way. Thank you for doing your part in getting the word out. The edifice is crumbling...

Posted by teresa at March 19, 2010 5:06 PM

Yes. Thanks for doing your bit.

Posted by monkeyfan at March 22, 2010 2:19 PM