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It also subsidized all my "free time" to edit On Our Backs. I had total creative freedom at Forum, which is amazing to recall. I got expertly copy edited and patted on the head. Now that process is all but extinct. The only time I was "censored" was when the MacKinnonDworkin antiporn legal efforts passed into Canadian Customs controls. which brought about a whole list of things we couldn't "say" anymore at PH, such as "anal sex," any arguing between men and women (could be seen as "degrading to women"), and of course, even the most innocuous of S/M jargon. You also had to make sure every character, even in fantasy, was at least a "junior" in college, to prove their maturity. Oh, those were the days! EXTREMELY irritating. Ultimately, the Canadian customs rules were only enforced against publications who endured a sexual stigma the New York Times could print the word "bondage" all day Gucci Handbags if they wanted to. The customs rules took a far greater toll on small lesbian and gay presses than they did on Penthouse. I remember smuggling On Our Backs in the back of a car to Vancouver's "Little Sisters" queer bookshop, who has fought these laws through the Queen's Court all these decades. Everyone asks me about the "Penthouse Letters," which became an beloved clich of breathless erotic confession. A typical opening went like this: "Needless to say, when I answered the door in my negligee to greet the Pizza Delivery boy." Many people wondered who "really" wrote these letters. Why did they all sound like the same voice with slight content differences? Original letters truly did arrive by the basketful every week at PH offices. There was no need to make them up! However, they were carefully edited for style by editor LaVada Nahon, who was also my editor for many years. (You an listen to our interview here). Nahon's editing is why the letters were so "consistent" in their tone. everyone who read a "letter" knew how to imitate the Forum style! Finally, a note about one of PH's most notorious moments: the blackandwhite erotic pictorial of theningenue Vanessa Williams, circa 1984. She had just won the Miss America contest, and a photographer from her past, who had shot this very pretty little "girlgirl" series, sold his photos to PH, which in turn prompted the Miss America pageant to Cheap Gucci Shoes take back Williams' crown. I was SO HAPPY that Williams triumphed and became massively famous, in spite of the pageant's Gucci Purses shaming. I remember goldframing one of the best photos from the spread, where Vanessa is wearing a very oldschool gay leather harness, looking dead glamourous. What's so Gucci Australia funny is that on the opposite side of the thin magazine centerfold is ANOTHER picture, of then practicallyunknown Traci Lords! It's a terrible Gucci Purse photo of her. At the time, it annoyed me; I thought PH included this mediocre shot of a "white chick" because they were so afraid Gucci Belts to "merely" offer a black woman as a centerforld. what idiots. The "men's magazine" business is notoriously backward on racial stereotypes; perhaps worse than the fashion industry, if that can be imagined. Later, this same edition was pulled from circulation because it turned out Traci was underage during her porn career heyday. Vanessa Williams fans, meanwhile who had no interest in Lords were outraged because their beloved centerfold became a taboo collector's item! Thank goodness I got mine framed in time.