Smut! Give me smut and nothing but!

July 17, 2010 9:29 AM

Recommend me your favorite pornographic magazine.

I love getting magazines. I love the feeling of them arriving every month, like a present, and I love the fact that someone else has filtered through a bunch of content for me and picked what they think is the best and printed and bound it. I also love porn. So clearly I should combine my love of both!

I'm pretty open-minded: I know I want a magazine, not a website, but beyond that I'm open to just about anything. I'm a chick, so woman-friendly porn is a bonus. I'm fine with all pictures, all words, or a mix of both. I'm fine with arty or explicit, kinky or vanilla, male or female or mixed, illustrated or photographs. I'm fine with subscription, and I'm fine with one I have to buy every month. So hit me up, and tell me your very favorite pages-stuck-suspiciously-together porn rag!

Bonus points if you can tell me why it's your favorite, or about a specific photo spread or story that illustrates the flavor of the magazine.

posted by WidgetAlley to media & arts (8 answers total)

It's not out yet but I'm really excited for the first issue of Poolboy Magazine in August. I've been following their blog for a while and they're hilarious, frank about their desire to fuck, and have good taste in the fellows.

I know you're pretty open but there's not a lot of porn catering to women, period, much less print media catering to mostly-straight women (not making assumptions about you, here), so Poolboy is going to be pretty unique.

I'm pretty sure the first issue is going to feature a photoshoot of a dude in American Apparel underwear and ACTUAL REAL DICK (yay! cheesecakey harlequin romance novel covers!) and I am going to proudly display it on my coffee table.
posted by Juliet Banana at 9:57 AM on July 17, 2010

I meant to say yay! no cheesecakey harlequin romance novel covers! I'm really happy when people have the balls to show, well, balls.
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:13 AM on July 17, 2010

I know the staff of Syzygy Magazine; it's also not out yet, but should be awesome.
posted by Parade of Horribles at 10:49 AM on July 17, 2010

When I was a notch higher on the Kinsey scale, I used to buy On Our Backs, it's for-lesbians-by-lesbians.

If you happen to be in Chicago, there's a good alternative (non-skeezy) bookstore with classy sex oriented books and magazines (their online selection is weird, don't go by that).
posted by desjardins at 10:58 AM on July 17, 2010

Sadly, On Our Backs went out of business years ago. I'm surprised they still have a web site up, but it doesn't seem to be active.
posted by gingerbeer at 2:06 PM on July 17, 2010

Filament is what you are looking for.
posted by geekchic at 5:39 PM on July 17, 2010 [3 favorites]

Seconding Filament!
posted by ozgirlabroad at 8:25 AM on July 18, 2010

It's refreshing to see one that seems to be staying afloat. I feel like this experiment--highbrow or hipster feminist smut in glossy print--gets tried again and again and the various magazines always inevitably fold (but then, most mags fold period, so I guess it's not that surprising). Sweet Action was the one I was familiar with in college. On Our Backs is defunct but reminds me too that this sort of thing tends to be more lesbian-centered than straight-girl-ish, and stuff supposedly straight-girl-ish is often just porn for gay guys. It's frustrating trying to find stuff that fills this niche.
posted by ifjuly at 10:20 AM on July 18, 2010