Here is our guide to the era of big hair, New Wave, lots of blush, and Reagan / Falwell. It lead one reviewer to remark вЂњShe must have sold her breasts to Satan for ice skating skillsвЂќ. HardingвЂ™s attempt to further her 15 minutes of infamy sold some videos but looked too shady to be real. It was later pointed out that the video was pieced together from several encounters as her male partner had a mustache that appeared and vanished several times and at one point the waterbed they are using mysteriously teleports across the room.

Embattled figure skater Tonya Harding had a вЂњLeakedвЂќ sex tape that was supposed to be from her wedding night. Their next sex tape escapade proved profitable but further hurt GuccioneвЂ™s credibility. They did triumph when Pet Corrine Alphen landed a lead role in the John Landis film вЂњAmazon Women on the MoonвЂќ, and again when they scooped the world with the leaked Pam Anderson / Tommy Lee sex tape. The worst missteps being dethroning the first African-American вЂњMiss AmericaвЂќ by publishing photos of her in the same issue where they featured a porn star вЂњpetвЂќ,В later discovered to be only 15 years old. It would top its rival PlayboyвЂ™s sales to start the decade, but missteps would cripple the magazineвЂ™s image before the eighties were over. The 1980вЂ™s saw highs and lows for Penthouse magazine.

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