'Stiffed' Podcast on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Porn Magazine

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 17, 2023

In 1973, a group of feminists teamed up with porn king Bob Guccione, the open-shirt, gold-chain-wearing publisher of Penthouse. The idea was to create a porn magazine for women. A new podcast, Stiffed, tells the story of how these lofty good intentions went south. We speak to host Jennifer Romolini about the show.

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