Penthouse Forum, sometimes simply Forum, is a magazine owned by Penthouse World Media, the publishers of Penthouse magazine.
First issue | March 1968 |
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Company | Penthouse World Media |
Country | United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
ISSN | 1043-0210 |
OCLC | 19252232 |
Penthouse Forum was started in March 1968 in the UK and featured letters, articles on health, medicine psychology and social relationships.[1] Its subtitle was International Journal of Human Relations.[1] The first American edition of Penthouse Forum was published in 1971 and became the fastest-growing national magazine by 1978.[1] In the 1970s, Forum was one of the most-sold magazines in America.[2] In 1996, Forum had 400,000 subscribers.[3]
The "letters" section of the magazine became popular, resulting in the creation of another Penthouse publication, Penthouse Letters.[4]
Many of the editorial staff and half of the letterwriters whose contributions were published were women.[1]
Alastair Campbell, a journalist and Tony Blair's former director of communications, was a contributor to the magazine,[5][6] as was Chad Varah, the founder of The Samaritans charity and an Anglican priest, who was a consultant on sex education for the magazine.
In July 2006 the rights to the UK edition were licensed to Trojan Publishing.[7]