The Pet Playoffs return, albeit in the voting category, as compared to the DVD realm. Still, who complains about a need to carefully consider beautiful women again? Seems like fun interactive game overall.
Vote Finale 2023: Runner-Up Ruminations
Weve never had a Finale vote before, so we are very excited, just to be clear. So forgive us if things get confusing. Basically the top women in the popular vote — verifiably tied to their social media promotion, data indicates — moved into a run-off competition. Naturally we felt like we should introduce the finalists, but then we very quickly realized that Pet Vote Finale 2023 contestants could much more easily do this themselves.
As you probably discerned, we simply took the introductory parts of their SFW Pet Videos and strung them all together, but should you realize that you suddenly want more, we will provide you “new page” links to (in calendar order, to avoid anything potentially untoward befalling us) … MSPUIYI, Tahlia Paris, Stormi Maya, Trippie Bri, Veronica Perasso, and Amber Rose.
Now we could have just left it at that, put the oddly (and completely unplanned) juxtaposed winners from the past three years in our fun little triptych linked to the new voting page, and left it at that. But then…
Vote Finale 2023: The Aftermath
(which happens to be a really excellent pun, by the way, since this all happens literally after the math)
You see, that photograph happens to be of Tania Russof who did not win in 1999. Not that we have any issue with Nikie St. Gilles taking home the prize at all. The point here being that there have been — and will continue to be — a by any standards spectacular group of women that finish in second place. Sure, everybody gives the “an honor to be nominated” platitudes when asked, but everybody likes to win. Let’s be honest. Not only that, but the Runner-Up position in the Pet Playoffs 2023 will not exactly be stepping in when somebody uncovers naked pictures of the winner and publishes them in a magazine. That happens with inferior competitions, but not with ours.
It seemed then that a little love thrown in the direction of the “this one little thing made the difference” Runner-Ups might just be the honorable thing to do. If not honorable, per se, at least it was a lot of fun.
While competition can be invigorating, once you select a winner, you by definition also have, not so much losers in this case as … women who did not win. You see, when you work with 12 very special people throughout the year, selecting that “one” and (usually) a “second” can be remarkably painful. Everyone cannot win, but we honestly hate to disappoint any of these ladies. This, even though the raw numbers made for a fairly simple mathematical division to get us to this Vote Finale 2023 point. (Fairly, not perfectly.)
Think about it: Choosing to make your living naked on camera takes more than just a little bit of personal fortitude. It also takes no small amount of ego. Without ego, movies would have no actors, music no musicians, and Nobel Prizes no … whatever category thing they need to select the best of the best that year. So we pick a winner, as contests must, but we intend in no way to minimize the unique and wonderful contributions to Penthouse that all the 2023 Pet of the Month winners brought. And we do want the Runner-Up to feel just a little bit extra special too. Best of luck to everyone here. Voting ends in a little over two weeks, and people can vote every day in this final round, so rally your folks, and if any of you readers have any suggestions for us beyond simply voting, well, that would be the point of the Contact page.
As a closing note to all of the women not in this final round — and moreso to any aspiring Penthouse models out there — we will borrow a line from our in-house Director of Pet Projects, Sam Phillips (Penthouse Pet, June 1993, in her own right). Sam always tells her wards, “Once you are a Pet, you are always a Pet.” … And who doesn’t like to be a member of an exclusive club, however paths down the road might diverge?
