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While Playboy devoted extensive print to covering sports, one of Hugh Hefner's great passions, Guccione had no interest in them and never bothered discussing sporting events or athletes in Penthouse, instead preferring to cover the art world.

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During the late 1960s, feminist groups criticized the magazine for supporting women's liberation only in terms of making them free to engage in sexual relationships with men. On the other hand, Playboy retained a certain conservatism and embraced mainstream American consumerism rather than reject it. Karpel, James Dale Davidson and Ernest Volkman, as well as the critically acclaimed Seymour Hersh, exposed numerous scandals and corruption at the highest levels of the United States government. Although Playboy had always had a liberal bent and championed the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice causes, Guccione offered editorial content that was more sensational and the magazine's writing was far more investigative than other men's magazines, with stories about government cover-ups and scandals. Penthouse began publication in 1965 in the United Kingdom and in North America in 1969, an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy. He occasionally created cartoons for Bill Box's humorous greeting card company, Box Cards. To support his family, Guccione managed a chain of laundromats until he got work as a cartoonist on an American weekly newspaper, The London American, while Muriel started a business selling pinup posters. They had four children: Robert Jr., Nina, Tony and Nicky. He eventually met an English woman, Muriel, moved to London with her, and married her. The marriage failed, and he left his wife and child to go to Europe to be a painter. In his teens, Guccione married his first wife, Lilyann Becker. He attended high school at Blair Academy, a prep school in Blairstown, New Jersey. He considered but rejected entering the priesthood. His father, Anthony, was an accountant and his mother, Nina, was a housewife. Guccione was born in Brooklyn, New York of Italian descent, from Sicily and raised Catholic in Bergenfield, New Jersey.