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I know playboy has always had allot more integrety but Penthouse recently changed their look, do you think models would ever try to get into Penthouse like they do Playboy if there was a big change? btw the way whats the real difference in career impacts by appearing in either one? Jul 15 07 06:20 am Link Penthouse changed their look....Does that mean the models no longer have to give golden showers in every pictorial? Jul 15 07 06:22 am Link lol why do they? Jul 15 07 06:23 am Link Penthouse doesn't have the prestige that Playboy has do I don't think so. Plus not everyone knows Penthouse has changed & is less explicit than it was. Jul 15 07 06:30 am Link Looks can be deceiving. The magazine is much tamer. They did that because they had to get their advertising dollars back. They still shoot the same hardcore content they did before. Now they just use it for the web or other venues. It is kind of like selling zip sets on a website. If you buy the magazine you see one level if you want to see more, you spend an extra few bucks. Penthouse is making money again, but it will never be the same as Playboy. That doesn't mean you shouldn't shoot for them. I know models who have managed to get in and refused to shoot hardcore (although they were asked). They avoided the hardcore by passing on shooting for centerfold. They for Penthouse basically for the money. So if you want to do Penthouse, go for it. Just don't expect it to have the same prestige as being in Playboy. It isn't going to happen. Jul 15 07 07:52 am Link This subject was discussed in an earlier thread. It seemed at that time everyone thought that Penthouse was so improved over the "old" Penthouse. Having known Penthouse from it's first issue, literally, but not having seen it for quite a few years now I went an bought this "new and improved" Penthouse just to see what eveyone was talking about. It was the biggest waste if EIGHT freaking dollars I ever saw!! If this is the "new & improved" Penthouse.....they might as well distrubute it straight into the trash. Jul 15 07 08:23 am Link Thanks for taking one for the team Frank and saving me the 8 bucks. Jul 15 07 08:30 am Link Jul 29 07 12:35 pm Link Jim Shibley wrote: I didn't know thay had changed their look... I'll have to grab a copy and check it out. This is pretty interesting news! Jul 29 07 01:14 pm Link at least you can't see the models tonsils via her vagina like Hustler Jul 29 07 01:25 pm Link Rick Edwards wrote: I buy Playboy often. My friends and I gather round and talk about whose tits look great while drinking beer at my house. Jul 29 07 01:34 pm Link Ian Miranda wrote: yep, nothing subtle about Larry Flynt's style Jul 31 07 01:37 pm Link they both blow, to many of the shooters on here think they are shooten for one of those lame rags! lets try a few words, boring, without imagination and poorly thought out images that rely on a pretty model to sell the image rather than the shooter. so says the California Kid Jul 31 07 01:47 pm Link there are some beautiful women in both magazines, and Penthouse definitely changed their pictorial style. A lot of the poses, however, have gotten very formulaic---you see the same shots showing up over several pictorials. Jul 31 07 01:51 pm Link I haven't looked much at either in recent years, but I did notice the big Penthouse shift. If you ask me, Penthouse got a little more interesting. Playboy still seems the same now as it has been for a long time, and it's looking very tired, almost anachronistic, if you ask me. Jul 31 07 02:26 pm Link Ian Miranda wrote: I was in the Army when Hustler first hit the stands and the guys in the barracks used to buy it and pass it around for the grossout factor. I remember Hustler having a long run of puke-inducing models: extremely old women, hairy (total body) women, grotesquely fat women, amputees, you name it. Aug 01 07 06:39 am Link FKVPhotoGraphics wrote: Sadly, the new Penthouse is now a Fundamentalist rag being marketed to gay hairdressers! Aug 01 07 06:47 am Link Sharpshoota photography wrote: that was 15 years ago. Aug 01 07 06:49 am Link Wow, did we miss out in the UK? Penthouse was actually well shot and few if any shots between the legs. Certainly no showers etc.. It had some interesting photographers who shot the models in a much less foemulaic way than Playboy which it has to be said is a wank mag for middle class execs. Aug 01 07 06:56 am Link Penthouse has been all over the map stylistically. there was a period in the 90s where golden showers were frequent. there have also been period, so I'm told, in which Penthouse's photography was actually interesting and extremely well done. There have also been stretches of complete crap. Aug 01 07 07:10 am Link theda wrote: All I can say in reply to that is that I hope the models who did the golden showers hadn't eaten asparagus right before their shoots! Aug 01 07 07:18 am Link Playboy has always been the benchmark for men's magazines, there also the least controversial. Penthouse has always been it's redheaded stepchild. Yes, Playboy is formulaic to a large degree, but if the cake sells why change the recipe. Aug 01 07 07:19 am Link Merlinpix wrote: If these magazines were food, Playboy would be sugar-coated corn flakes while Penthouse would be braised antelope with truffles. Aug 01 07 07:37 am Link JAY carreon wrote: I agree, unfortunately the cornflakes outdraw the antelope. Aug 01 07 08:57 am Link The sum total of Penthouse's useful influence, IMO, was to get Playboy off the pot and showing pubic hair. That's it. Not that anyone actually has pubic hair these days, but that was what happened in the mid-70's. I still remember the first centerfold with a bush. It was phenomenal. sigh.... Aug 01 07 09:25 am Link Steve Mills wrote:
Aug 01 07 11:43 am Link Both magazines seem to always have interviews with all kinds of celebrities. Its nice to know that anything considered risqué isn't scaring people away anymore. The covers of Penthouse seem a little more upbeat and stylish now. Take the one with Dita on the cover for instance. (in her green corset) Aug 01 07 12:44 pm Link Erotic Pin-up Art wrote: Both mags have been formula since the 80's. If you note in Playboy, virtually all the gatefold pictorials repeat every x number of months in page layout and shot type. As well as the fact that they began digitally modifying Centerfolds so the models all fill about the same amount of space and relative scale in every issue. Wasn't that way up to about '84. Then and before, Playmates were all unique and memorable. Aug 01 07 03:00 pm Link I got offered to be in Hustler but I just couldn't bring myself to do it... even for good money. My deal is, don't pose any style that I wouldn't like to personally drool over. I'm a softcore girl... Aug 01 07 03:05 pm Link Rick Edwards wrote: Yeah, the classic "inside beauty" Aug 01 07 03:07 pm Link What was the rumor? That they brought over editors and a photo editor from Esquire or something? I have a bunch of emails of new staffers over there if anybody wants them. Aug 01 07 03:09 pm Link DevilsTowerMedia wrote: True, but advertising pays for the magazine, not just newsstand or sub sales. Aug 01 07 03:27 pm Link KATHY JEAN wrote: Oh, yeah. Aug 01 07 07:17 pm Link Ian Miranda wrote: It's not nice to make fun of Courtney Love. Anyone could mistake their guitar for a tampon. Aug 01 07 07:22 pm Link I remember the first Hustler mag (and last) I saw had a story about a guy fingering green watery fecal matter (referred to as goop) into his wife's vagina and then he did her while she was passed out over a toilet. Thats just too overboard, I hope it didn't really happen. Aug 01 07 07:30 pm Link Chris Beyond wrote: Hahahaha! Aug 01 07 07:30 pm Link I think both magazines are outdated and akin to being dinosaurs in the modern age. If someone really wants porn/nudity there is no shortage on the net for free, and how many people really buy playboy or penthouse for art aspect? I personally don't like playboys style, it's insanely overprocessed and the pics might as well be paintings for the amount of actual reality that exists in them. I've seen a few playboy models in person and it's jarring the difference between that and the magazine. I know some people might like "perfection" but i just don't like their overdone look. I haven't seen penthouse in years so i can't speak for them. Aug 01 07 09:19 pm Link I didn't see it mentioned here, but the main reason Penthouse changed is that they went broke and were sold to a whole new publisher. Bob G is long gone as are all the staff, although I think Ken Marcus is shooting for them again. I used to shoot B/W promo headshots of PH Pets (for personal appearances) for their west coast office back in the late 80's. One of my assignments was an 18-year-old, pre-boob job Janine Lindemulder. (Does anyone here remember her w/o the tattoos?). Andy Pearlman Aug 02 07 02:50 am Link I WOULD LIKE TO BE IN PENTHOUSE AND PLAYBOY ... !!!!!!!!! NATASHA : ) Nov 26 08 11:44 am Link Penthouse was an early participant in the Green Movement. In order to save paper, they frequently shot two models for a single spread. Nov 26 08 12:16 pm Link |
Hmm, good idea for a '70s retro shoot? Bush
