Student-run sex magazines are storming college campuses. But who wants to bother with a magazine when the internet's options are so much more expansive?
When I first heard the New York Times make this claim -- that "there’s something valiant, even quaint, about the attempt to organize and consider sex in a printed magazine" -- I actually almost started laughing. Using quaint to describe a porn magazine seemed like an odd word choice. But after I thought about it, they're completely correct.
In an age where sex is so overexposed, and you can find any -- and I mean any -- sexual image you might desire with the click of a mouse, it is nice to see a return to the more familiar, to see sex coverage limited to a specific campus community. The confinement of the publication's audience demonstrates a respect for privacy that seems to me, well ... quaint. I can certainly appreciate the movement away from the online domain and back to magazine pages, especially when the creators are trying to do something fresh with the genre.
melissa (not verified) @ Thu, 03/08/2007 - 10:08am
The way I see it, there's a permanence to anything physical, and even porn tries to tap ino that. Plus, it always amuses me when I'm standing in line of a deli/drug store type of place and see the kind of men who cooly purchase the magazines before stuffing them into black plastic bags. Ah, the stuff you can't do if they view porn online.