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Introducing: Stiffed

Introducing: Stiffed

FromStiffed


Introducing: Stiffed

FromStiffed

ratings:
Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What happens when a group of scrappy feminist journalists teams up with a porn king? The true story of Bob Guccione, VIVA magazine, and 1970s feminist porn.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Mar 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (10)

New York City, 1973. Bob Guccione, founder of the men’s magazine Penthouse, is about to drop his latest project, and it’s not quite what anyone is expecting. Enter Viva, an erotic magazine for women published by a porn king but staffed by – drumroll – a bunch of feminist writers and editors. Viva features groundbreaking full-frontal male nudes, writing by feminist icons like Betty Friedan, and profiles of literary legends like Maya Angelou. Its cover stars include Bianca Jagger and Shelley Duvall. Anna Wintour is even Viva’s fashion editor at one point. But what is originally conceived as a high-end, progressive, sexual utopia for women… doesn't quite turn out that way. Stiffed is an Original Series from Crooked Media and iHeartPodcasts.