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Arizona Shoots
Posts: 28653
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Is it erotic nude? Is it Adult nude? Glamour nude?
And is recruiting for it allowed here?
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Lotus Photography
Posts: 19253
Berkeley, California, US
dear penthouse letters, i thought that these were fake til one day i posted a question about your magazine in a photography forum, the next day my mail box was filled with email, i decided to take one of the models up on her offer to shoot with me, she was paying me $600 and driving too..
we got out to the desert and when i asked her waht she wanted to do she whipped off her thong and said..
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Leggy Mountbatten
Posts: 12562
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Penthouse style is with three layers of panty hose rubber-banded around the lens. Minimum.
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Steve Mills
Posts: 4783
Hermiston, Oregon, US
That rag is still in print?
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DHayes Photography
Posts: 4962
Richmond, Virginia, US
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots.
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J C ModeFotografie
Posts: 14718
Los Angeles, California, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots. Sad - what used to be some truly stimulating and artful erotica ("porn" - if you like) involving among the world's most beautiful faces and bodies has now turned into a Far Right Christian magazine whose target audience is "gay hairdressers"!!!
JAY carreon
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Arizona Shoots
Posts: 28653
Phoenix, Arizona, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots. I'm not sure I'm buying this. Take a look at their website afterall... perhaps this just applies to the magazine?
I subscribed to the website a couple of months ago and it's still pretty hardcore... though the most the pets do is spreads and stuff like that..
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Telephoto Studio
Posts: 1439
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
SM Nudes wrote:
Penthouse style is with three layers of panty hose rubber-banded around the lens. Minimum. Nope - vaseline on a clear UV filter.
Hasselblad made the best soft focus filter - the Softar - that was more like a series of lenses of varying degrees of softness. I always liked the effect of the Softar over vaseline anyday.
Is anyone out there old enough to remember the "Pubic Wars" between Penthouse and Playboy back in the day - and which one of them actually had the first showing of pubic hair in their US version?
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MannyDesalamanca
Posts: 2076
Orlando, Florida, US
Penthouse was a bit hotter than Playboy.......Hairy girls and soft Focus......But serious readers read HUSTLER.........I had e Few under the Box Spring back in 1980.........
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joe duerr
Posts: 4227
Santa Ana, California, US
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PDXImaging
Posts: 1476
Lake Oswego, Oregon, US
Lotus Photography wrote:
dear penthouse letters, i thought that these were fake til one day i posted a question about your magazine in a photography forum, the next day my mail box was filled with email, i decided to take one of the models up on her offer to shoot with me, she was paying me $600 and driving too..
we got out to the desert and when i asked her waht she wanted to do she whipped off her thong and said.. lol
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J Welborn
Posts: 2552
Clarksville, Tennessee, US
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DHayes Photography
Posts: 4962
Richmond, Virginia, US
John Jebbia wrote:
I'm not sure I'm buying this. Take a look at their website afterall... perhaps this just applies to the magazine?
I subscribed to the website a couple of months ago and it's still pretty hardcore... though the most the pets do is spreads and stuff like that.. From about 1998 till a year or so ago, Penthouse went totally hardcore i.e., showing photos of actual oral, vaginal and anal penetration. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female models urinating. They lost what few mainstream advertisers they had and many newsstands quit carrying the magazine.
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American Glamour
Posts: 38813
Detroit, Michigan, US
Penthouse style means flip-flopping all the time so one day your limits are hardcore, the next day Maxim style, the next back to Playboy style and then Playboy still in the book and hardcore on the site.
Oh wait a minute, i guess that means that Penthouse style is whatever you want it to be.
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Kat Mae Model
Posts: 361
York, Pennsylvania, US
It's much cleaner now than even some of the Playboy SE I've seen. I canceled my subscription when I saw the implied shots, no, just kidding, but it has changed. If you want Pu$$y shots, you're just going to have to stick to your Cherry and Nugget magazines. LOL
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Cthulhu77
Posts: 1142
Gilbert, Arizona, US
Personally, I've always liked " Hot Lactating Mamas" better...but penthouse is ok.
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Jay Bowman
Posts: 6511
Los Angeles, California, US
Lotus Photography wrote:
dear penthouse letters, i thought that these were fake til one day i posted a question about your magazine in a photography forum, the next day my mail box was filled with email, i decided to take one of the models up on her offer to shoot with me, she was paying me $600 and driving too..
we got out to the desert and when i asked her waht she wanted to do she whipped off her thong and said.. Hilarity ensues...
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Jay Bowman
Posts: 6511
Los Angeles, California, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots. John Jebbia wrote:
I'm not sure I'm buying this. Take a look at their website afterall... perhaps this just applies to the magazine?
I subscribed to the website a couple of months ago and it's still pretty hardcore... though the most the pets do is spreads and stuff like that.. He's absolutely right in my opinion, in regards to the magazine itself. I haven't seen the website though.
I'm interested in seeing it, since the magazine used to be so much harder and has softened drastically, I'd like to see how the website compares (and competes) against the hundreds of thousands of amateur sites offering considerably harder content.
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Janos
Posts: 1572
Atlanta, Georgia, US
John Jebbia wrote:
Is it erotic nude? Is it Adult nude? Glamour nude?
And is recruiting for it allowed here? Showing the works. I would assume its a twist of both glam and adult. Way to much photoshop work though.
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Erzsebet
Posts: 1512
BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
From about 1998 till a year or so ago, Penthouse went totally hardcore i.e., showing photos of actual oral, vaginal and anal penetration. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female models urinating. They lost what few mainstream advertisers they had and many newsstands quit carrying the magazine. Yepp. Now they hardly show any spread in the mag at all. It's playboy-esque. I like Hustlers Taboo anyway though 
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Kelvin Hammond
Posts: 17397
Billings, Montana, US
I remember thinking (back in the day) that Penthouse style took it's cues from fashion, as the images were far more sophisticated and edgy then the alternatives:
Playboy=cutsie glam
Hustler=in your face (bow chicka wah wah)
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FKVPhotography
Posts: 30064
Ocala, Florida, US
JAY carreon wrote:
Sad - what used to be some truly stimulating and artful erotica ("porn" - if you like) involving among the world's most beautiful faces and bodies has now turned into a Far Right Christian magazine whose target audience is "gay hairdressers"!!!
JAY carreon
PHOTOGRAPHER You owe me a coffee.....the one I just spit up all over my keyboard!!!!
I agree when Penthous first hit the market the photography was a marked improvement over Playboys airbrushed beauties.....I think Penthouse showed a totally new way to shoot erotic/glamour using a combination of soft focus and polarized filters....very unique at the time.
However now....it's turned into a piece of crap! I went and bought an issue about six months ago after hearing how improved it was.....total waste of EIGHT freaking dollars!!!!
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Dan Lippitt
Posts: 3266
Pontiac, Michigan, US
J Welborn wrote:
Porn .......... love your port 99 hot naked chicks and a baby! 
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DHayes Photography
Posts: 4962
Richmond, Virginia, US
Does anyone remember Viva magazine? It was published by Penthouse in the late 70's and its target audience was women, although it seemed to be riding the "bisexual chic" wave of the time. For a while it had some big name photographers and was way more erotic than Playgirl and even Penthouse.
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FKVPhotography
Posts: 30064
Ocala, Florida, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Does anyone remember Viva magazine? It was published by Penthouse in the late 70's and its target audience was women, although it seemed to be riding the "bisexual chic" wave of the time. For a while it had some big name photographers and was way more erotic than Playgirl and even Penthouse. It's a hazy recollection but I do remember seeing it on newstands.....didin't last for more than a year or so.....reality is that women don't buy erotic magzines.....men do! Or at least the ones who are in the middle of their testosterone frenzy do!
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C U R V A C I O N
Posts: 530
Austin, Texas, US
Penthouse style..... ok this is tough now as penthouse has contacted a few of my clients trying to convince them that they are more soft core now and more playboy style but penthouse style is basically great photography with a lot of open leg shots and sexual touching and expression
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Matthew A Cooke
Posts: 157
Los Angeles, California, US
i had a few pages in penthouse but the editors deleted all of the vagina shots and only used topless WTF?
so i called a couple models i know that are penthouse pets and was told new ownership and topless only????
that is the AMERICAN magazine,
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Candy Poses
Posts: 3380
Seattle, Washington, US
I don't use the term "penthouse," but I do use the term "hustler."
Playboy nudes = legs closed. Hustler nudes = legs open.
I have shot them before, but only with certain photographers. It is adult work, but I wouldn't have a problem with tactful solicitations on mm. Others might.
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theda
Posts: 21719
New York, New York, US
Alan from Aavian Prod wrote:
Penthouse style means flip-flopping all the time so one day your limits are hardcore, the next day Maxim style, the next back to Playboy style and then Playboy still in the book and hardcore on the site.
Oh wait a minute, i guess that means that Penthouse style is whatever you want it to be. that about sums it up.
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Christopher Hartman
Posts: 54196
Buena Park, California, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots. water sports? you mean like...peeing on each other? they print that now?! wow!
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Merlinpix
Posts: 7118
Farmingdale, New York, US
Kithos wrote:
It's much cleaner now than even some of the Playboy SE I've seen. I canceled my subscription when I saw the implied shots, no, just kidding, but it has changed. If you want Pu$$y shots, you're just going to have to stick to your Cherry and Nugget magazines. LOL NUGGET's gone sad to say, made a lot of sales there 
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Arizona Shoots
Posts: 28653
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Christopher Hartman wrote:
water sports? you mean like...peeing on each other? they print that now?! wow! That was a 90's thing. I don't think they do that anymore.. there's only so many ways you can photograph piss.
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S W I N S K E Y
Posts: 24376
Saint Petersburg, Florida, US
if i am not mistaken, terry richardson will be shooting a centerfold for them..the new editor is from GQ..they are trying class up the mag....
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Christopher Hartman
Posts: 54196
Buena Park, California, US
WOW, I checked out their site (didn't join) and they are offering photo downloads with resolutions up to 4000 pixels!!!!
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L Mami
Posts: 266
Los Angeles, California, US
..the new penthouse? like pix in my port except a little more polished, nude, glam, erotic, stylish, more creative than in the past...
they have some good photographers now. I want to see a few more issues with the change, but I'm considering posing for them if they keep it up
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Howard Garcia
Posts: 2210
New York, New York, US
DHayes Photography wrote:
Penthouse used to be lots of soft focus genital closeups, masturbation and girl/girl shots; then it went to full on m/f hardcore and watersports. Last I heard, Penthouse had been sold and revamped into a Maxim clone with nothing but bikini and implied shots. You heard wrong.
IT's still nude, spreads but not hardcore like it used to be.
More like a bad copy of Playboy done by amateurs.
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L Mami
Posts: 266
Los Angeles, California, US
Howard Garcia wrote:
You heard wrong.
IT's still nude, spreads but not hardcore like it used to be.
More like a bad copy of Playboy done by amateurs. not ameteurs actually, working photographers that do more than nudes. terry does some major campaigns and editorials for instance
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Kat Mae Model
Posts: 361
York, Pennsylvania, US
Merlinpix wrote:
NUGGET's gone sad to say, made a lot of sales there Damnit! Okay...sigh... I guess I just have to switch over to Black Tail and Asian Fever for now.
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Mark Brummitt
Posts: 40527
Clarkston, Michigan, US
John Jebbia wrote:
Is it erotic nude? Is it Adult nude? Glamour nude?
And is recruiting for it allowed here? What's Penthouse?
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Rick Edwards
Posts: 6185
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Telephoto Studio wrote:
Nope - vaseline on a clear UV filter.
Hasselblad made the best soft focus filter - the Softar - that was more like a series of lenses of varying degrees of softness. I always liked the effect of the Softar over vaseline anyday.
Is anyone out there old enough to remember the "Pubic Wars" between Penthouse and Playboy back in the day - and which one of them actually had the first showing of pubic hair in their US version? Playboy 1964 or 66
Veruschka was the model I think
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