“We’re not as liberal as everyone thinks we are.” “Society at large is more conservative, due to political correctness companies that want to advertise certainly don’t have an appetite to be in a magazine like Penthouse anymore. Mr Costas told a changing view on sex and poor sales were behind the icon’s demise, adding it was sad to see any part of Penthouse’s publishing history disappear but “we move with the times”. “Researchers who have studied penis size concluded that at age 20 the average length of the flaccid penis was 13.02cm and the average relaxed circumference was 8.55cm.” “Penis size is very variable,” read Penthouse’s response to A.E. It’s a far cry from the nine-page spread that featured in the first Australian issue. “We had limited numbers of letters coming through which didn’t support a quarterly 120-odd page book,” he told. Mr Costas blamed the move on “financial reasons”, adding “sales at newsagents were less than satisfactory”. Today, the last issue of Penthouse’s “dirty little brother”, Black Label, hit shelves for the final time. “If people aren’t writing in it means there's no market for it.” “People stopped writing in, no one wants it any more,” he told. Mr Costas blamed a “seismic shift in sex and culture” and said the appetite for adult content in print “is completely dead”. He asked: “Is there anything that I can do to make my penis bigger?”īut today the publisher of Penthouse Australia says Australians are no longer interested in reading the salacious letters from the lovelorn and sex starved and in 2015 Damien Costas cut Penthouse Forum - and its letters - from publication. “When birds give me hints to (sleep with) them, I want to, but I can’t because I’m worried about what they will think.”

The first issue of Australian Penthouse in October, 1979.

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