[net.politics] PENTHOUSE FORUM

lipman@decwrl.UUCP (03/07/84)

From: akov68::boyajian


>> I have read as many letters from
>> women (in the Forum) describing how they turned their men into
>> sex slaves as from men.

> I am curious, do you people believe that these letters are for real?  I have
> read some of those "forum" letters myself and they were the most ridiculous
> stories I could ever imagine.  It sounded like they came from some overexcited
> adolescent minds.  I could not imagine people doing those things seriously,
> and bragging about it on top of it!!!!

>		leading a sheltered life in Waterloo.......

>				Sophie Quigley


	Well, of course there can be endless debate over whether those "Forum"
letters are "real". Personally, I believe that most of them *are* real, in the
sense that they are written by "real" people out there in PENTHOUSE-readership
land (as opposed to being written by PENTHOUSE staff writers). "Forum" provides
these people with the opportunity to write their own porno-book fantasies. I
would even be willing to bet that many of the letters purporting to come from
women are actually written by men whose fantasies involve be seduced by an
aggressive woman (not that *all* are, or that I have any supporting evidence;
just a supposition).
	I think what really gets me about the letters, is that so many of them
start off with something like "I used to believe that the `Forum' letters were
all staff written until the following incident happened to me last month..."
I think that most of them are real howlers.


				  --- jayembee
				      (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard)
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mzp@uicsg.UUCP (03/22/84)

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uicsg!mzp    Mar 10 17:51:00 1984

  Not too long ago some friends of mine on a dormitory floor at the University
of Illinois got together and wrote a letter to Penthouse Forum.  Being the
anti-Greeks that they were, it described a homosexual fraternity initiation
ceremony.  Pretty lurid stuff, and it got published.  Don't believe everything
you read.
				Mark Papamarcos
				uiucdcs!uicsg!mzp