A piece about Mike Cernovich took a critical tone.* Libertarian journalist Art Tavana wrote a sympathetic profile of female gun rights activists for the same issue, sharing an excerpt on Twitter that describes Dana Loesch as “ a right-wing vamp,” “a cultural bump stock in a movement that’s inspired conservative women to transform into gimlet-eyed Bond girls.Penthouse Porn Review The porn site up for review today is, which is the flagship site of one of the biggest and best known companies in the adult industry. The December issue’s cover reads “The Culture Wars,” and the magazine features Jordan Peterson (“Dad of the Moment”) Claire Lehmann, the founding editor of Quillette Debra Soh, a Canadian neuroscientist and science writer notable for defending James Damore’s position that gender differences account for women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields and arguing against allowing trans children to transition and Dennis Hof, the brothel owner and Joe Arpaio pal who died before being elected to the Nevada State Assembly. Alan Dershowitz-who also contributed to Penthouse back in the day, showing some continuity between past and present-wrote for the December 2016 issue on the topic “Does Porn Cause Harm?” (Guess his answer!) In September, the magazine profiled Blaire White, a trans YouTuber who supports Donald Trump. Perhaps in response to these stressors, Penthouse Australia-a licensee of the brand with no editorial connection with the American magazine-has gone all the way alt-right.* It’s published articles like “ Why Right-Wing Girls Are Better Girlfriends” (“If you want a girl who’s a package deal, ditch those leftist-feminazis and try your luck with an empowered, freedom-focused, right-wing glamour girl,” writer Daisy Cousens advised) and organized speaking tours for figures like Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos.* (The McInnes tour was canceled after he was denied a visa.)īut in other instances, the magazine has given voice to a motley crew of people on the right. In the 21 st century, Penthouse has endured a litany of financial troubles. One, preserved in the digital collection of Harvard’s Schlesinger Library, featured a picture of a naked man with Guccione’s head photoshopped onto it and the caption: “Bob Guccione is the publisher of Penthouse, a handbook for rapists.” In the course of their protests of the magazine, Farley and Craft and their fellow activists burned an effigy of Bob Guccione in Wisconsin ripped up copies of Penthouse in bookstores, while telling stories of their own sexual assaults and handed out provocative fliers asking people to call for advertiser boycotts of the magazine. I gasped at the most bizarrely derogatory reference to motherhood I’d seen in a while Cliffe seemed undisturbed, promptly making the caricature her Twitter avatar.Īnd Cliffe fans not accustomed to thinking of Penthouse at all suddenly wondered: Is the iconic 20 th-century porn mag part of the intellectual dark web now? The answer, a qualified yes, is extremely instructive if you’re trying to understand how decades-old fights over feminism have morphed into undercurrents of the messy partisan politics of 2018. The magazine’s official account tweeted an actually-quite-flattering caricature of Cliffe, with the message that she’d been put on something called #TheNewPuritansList for being “our favorite Mean Mommie” and siccing “mobs” on people. On Wednesday, Nicole Cliffe-noted Twitter personality and Slate columnist-got the Penthouse treatment. The Simple Thing I Always Do at RestaurantsĪ $120 Tote Bag Has Galvanized the Internet. It’s Not Possible to “Fix” Kindergarteners Who Wear Diapers by Passing a Law. I Love the British Royals, but There’s Some Seriously Spicy Stuff Happening in Another Kingdom
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