The September 1984 issue of Penthouse magazine was responsible for two major scandals. First, the issue featured explicit, raunchy photographs of recently crowned Miss America Vanessa Williams, some of which showed her getting, ahem, friendly with another female. (They were actually test photos taken by a photographer friend of Williams and not meant for publication.) Nevertheless they were acquired by the magazine and prominently featured in its 15th anniversary edition. It was a huge seller, netting a profit of $14 million for Penthouse. The subsequent uproar caused Williams to voluntarily relinquish her Miss America title. The second controversy did not surface for nearly two full years: The Pet of the Month in that very same issue was rising adult film star Traci Lords. In 1986 it was revealed that Lords was only 16 years old at the time of the photo shoot.
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