Chapters bear matrimonial titles like "His Wife Surprises Him by Showing Up at His Hotel in Sexy Undies, and in Heat," "Nothing Excited Him More Than Seeing His Wife Get It On With His Best Friend," "And They Thought Bringing the Wives Would Spoil Their Just-Guys Weekend" or, for Pete's sake, "A Beautiful Quarter Century Only Affirms the Love They Share Together." A typical beginning to a hot group grope goes, "Recently my wife and I tried swinging as a means of spicing up a long-time monogamous marriage.
In 39 of those stories, a committed, most often married, heterosexual couple gets it on, and whether they're alone or, more likely, some hot stud or sex kitten has joined them, the sex reinforces the man and woman's relationship with each other. There are 69 stories in "Letters to Penthouse XIX" (get it?). I would go so far as to say that, contextualized, the majority of the "reader" encounters in "Letters" amounts, shockingly, to an affirmation of family values. What is most interesting about "Letters to Penthouse XIX" is that the magazine's readers, apparently, haven't changed much either.
America's definition of that edge, though, has changed radically Penthouse's really hasn't. It's been a humbling fall for Penthouse, which burst on the scene 40 years ago, a Playboy imitation that dallied on the edge of kink. The impact has devastated Penthouse, whose publisher filed for Chapter 11 last summer, and many bet on a complete overhaul by a new owner.
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Time has passed since the Penthouse Forum offered cutting-edge titillation 384 pages of sucking and fucking, with a smattering of edgier nastiness, really isn't all that in an era of the Super Bowl flash - or, more important, the Internet, where a video of a famous hotel heiress is available for quick download for $50, and porn bloggers explore predicaments Penthouse readers could never imagine. The 19th collection of letters from Penthouse "readers" (that is, actual readers and the editors who imitate them), culled from the fabled Forum section of the magazine, delivers a bit of everything for the average libido: fellatio, cunnilingus, vaginal sex, anal sex, exhibitionism, voyeurism, dominance, toys, group sex, in the home, in the office, in the car, on the beach, in the bleachers.