PENTHOUSE World Media (PWM) owns and manages the iconic PENTHOUSE brand. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, PWM publishes its eponymous magazine in the United States and creates content for distribution via international television networks and websites. PWM also licenses consumer products, gentlemen's clubs and other media around the world. For over 50 years, PENTHOUSE has commanded headlines as one of the world’s preeminent adult entertainment brands. PENTHOUSE Magazine was founded in the UK in 1965 by Bob Guccione and brought to the US in 1969. Since its inception, the magazine has chronicled the libido of a changing world and the pop culture that shapes it with intelligent journalism, exquisite nude pictorials and celebrity profiles. At the crossroads of art and sex, PENTHOUSE stands for a fearless approach to sexuality and unabashed support for all those courageous enough to rebel from the ordinary.