Philip Nobile (born 1942) is an American freelance writer, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic/commentator. He has written or edited several books, published investigative journalism in leading newspapers and journals, and taught since 2001 at the Cobble Hill School of American Studies, a public school in Brooklyn. Early life and education Nobile was born in Boston. He studied as a seminarian and historian, but left religious life to become a journalist. Career During his journalism career, Nobile has written for The New York Press, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Penthouse, Spin, Spy Magazine, Esquire, Newsday, The Weekly Standard, and The New York Post among other publications. He wrote on the idea of “positive incest” in a 1977 article on Warren Farrell in Penthouse that questioned the incest taboo. He was an editor, along with Eric Nadler, of Penthouse Forum. In addition he is a regular contributor to the online History News Network. As a "muckraking" investigative journalist and media analyst, Nobile has generated controversy by his criticisms of a variety of public figures, including sexologist Shere Hite, talk radio host Don Imus, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, and President Harry S. Truman. In 1982 he wrote in Penthouse Forum of his penis size research. He argued that data from Kinsey Institute studies showed that black penis were longer than white penises. This was based on a sample of 2376 "white college men", 143 "non-white college men" and 59 "black college men". In 1984 he was sued by Shere Hite for his Penthouse Forum editorial that said that she should be driven "out of the erogenous zones". The $15 million case was settled out of court, but Nobile did not issue an apology or retraction. In 1990 he debated Judith Reisman on the work of Alfred Kinsey in an appearance on The Phil Donahue Show where his writing on "positive incest" arose. In 1990 he reported what was described as a "key story" in the Village Voice of a former altar boy's sexual relationship with the Rev. Bruce Ritter of Covenant House. This was part of an unfolding account of one of the earliest reported cases of sexual abuse among religious in institutional settings. None of the cases was prosecuted because of the 5-year statute of limitations at the time for sexual abuse. In 1993, after the death of author