Shit rules, my 1975 issue of Penthouse takes on a journey from a at the time contemporary account at the insane resurgence of Scott Joplin, a detail look at how OG pirates & Film Archivists would get their copies of Jaws & Nashville while trying to break into the Technicolor office to steal reels but the FBI stopped them, to an interview with this Israeli author who interviewed Kissinger post the Yom Kippur war & had his book censored by the Israeli government, to a multi page spread of this dimepiece being spread eagle talking about how she loves older Syrian men, to a guide on how to make penises out of arts & crafts supplies, to a ode to 1975 where a guy talks about how he missed the 50s where he'd yell at people that their mom "Pulled their Pork" but now it's just disco kids in sharkskin suits & Nixon fucking with his Hawaii Five-O episodes all next to 12 different cigarette ads..... Where else can you get this shit???? It kicks ass, more people need to read them lmao, it's literally everything you'd want from literature in one place, like sure if you want to just beat it than the mags are obsolete, but I don't even want to beat it as much as I want to read about what people in 1975 had to say about if Lee Harvey Oswald was framed with the occasional photo of a red head in stockings, it's just back to back things that make you say "Sweet".... Shame that this isn't considered respectable literature when I'm pretty sure everyone would prefer to read some MFA Graduates substack on foreign affairs with Nepal if next to it you had a cartoon of a horny wizard, an ad for HiFi equipment, & some chick with a big bush draped in gold & in the nude, it's a flawless formula that makes reading fun compared to Googling "Kissinger interview" & getting a PDF, did I want to read about Kissinger???? No, but I did, & now I'm more intelligent & my reward was the next page the lady had an awesome bush.... There is value in the serendipity of flipping through a 3 page write up on the NSA to then get hit with some cheesecake then go a review of a French film you've never heard of no algorithm can beat that.... It's just Based Reading for guys who have interests in culture to centerfolds of girls from Des Moine & everything in between, plus they'll literally never become useless as no matter what if you ain't got shit going on just have a copy or two on your nightstand, flip to the Penthouse Pet of the Month, say "Awesome" for a minute or two, & then keep it moving, I don't think Proust does that, it's chaotic yet based reading.....
>>24725200>smut, /pol/hitt currentthing and "DIDJA KNOW???" Anon, Penthouse, Hustler and Playboy are historic brainrot content. YT shorts are the same thing sans nipples.
>>24725245Anon, Playboy having well written, intellectually exerting articles that are ignored because boobs has been a joke as long as I can remember
>>24725294There's a plenty of well-written and captivating content in any brainrot. Brainrot is not brainrot because it's poorly made. It's brainrot because that's what you consoom purely to occupy your idle attention.
>>24725200You've never heard the joke "I read Playboy for the articles?" That used to be a real thing. Penthouse/Playboy had high circulation, which meant that they could pay good writers a lot of money to write about more or less whatever they wanted. Playboy also published short fiction. While back, getting a story into Playboy was an actual big deal, kinda like a dirtier NYer
>>24725200I thought she had huge pecs
>>24725200>Scott JoplinWho else still listenin' to America's great composer in 2025 like me?
>>24726173Good fucking taste brother, Pineapple Rag, Magnetic Rag, & The Sting being peak kino, yeah Joplin is alright
>>24725461If you think that you must be gay, nigga
>>24725200didn't read all that shit you wrote but to answer the main question, they do. example, dian hanson has made a whole career about writing histories of men' s magazines etc
>>24725200These rags you pick up--and find there are missing pages. . . and then you make that queezy realization that they were stuck together.
>>24725200Reading old skin mags really is a portal to another world. All old mags are, but the base nature of porno makes them somehow more representative of their eras. Picrel is a comic I saw in an old Penthouse I read online. Also, I appreciate bush.
>>24726696I wish we could bring back magazines. Nobody really knows what they want. I certainly don't. So it's nice to get served up a whole bunch of random stuff.
Rosina Revelle is my favourite pin-up girl
