Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines, sex magazines, top-shelf magazines, or blue books are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography. Such publications provide photographs or other illustrations of nudity and sexual activities, including oral sex, sexual intercourse, anal sex, and other various forms of such activities. Most often, these magazines contain photographs of attractive women and/or men. These magazines primarily serve to stimulate sexual thoughts and emotions. Some magazines are very general in their variety of illustrations, while others may be more specific and focus on particular activities, fetishes, or parts of the anatomy. Adult magazines are mainly aimed towards men, as males populate the vast majority of the market. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Porn redirects here. ...

Well-known adult magazines include Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler. Playboy is an American mens magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... Jesse Capelli on Penthouse magazine cover Penthouse is a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combining urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials, that eventually, in the 1990s evolved into hard-core. ... Larry Flynt Hustler Club on West 52nd Street in New York Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. ...

Porn mags may also carry articles of serious nature. Topics range from science, computers, culture, and politics.

History

The first issue of Playboy, published on December of 1953.

The history of pornographic magazines is part of a much longer history of erotic depictions. As the technology of communication has changed, each new technique, such as printing, photography, motion pictures and computers, has been adapted to display and disseminate these depictions.^[1] First issue of Playboy magazine, featuring a black and white photo of Marilyn Monroe (in a dress) promising inside full-color pics of her nude. ... First issue of Playboy magazine, featuring a black and white photo of Marilyn Monroe (in a dress) promising inside full-color pics of her nude. ... Playboy is an American mens magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Roman oil lamp depicting coitus more ferarum Erotic depictions include paintings, sculpture, photographs, dramatic arts, music and writings that show scenes of a sexual nature. ... For other articles which might have the same name, see Print (disambiguation). ... Photography [fәtɑgrәfi:],[foʊtɑgrәfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or sensor. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... The NASA Columbia Supercomputer. ...

In 1880, halftone printing was used to reproduce photographs inexpensively for the first time.^[2] The invention of halftone printing took pornography and erotica in new directions at the beginning of the 20th century. The new printing processes allowed photographic images to be reproduced easily in black and white, whereas printers were previously limited to engravings, woodcuts and line cuts for illustrations.^[3] This was the first format that allowed pornography to become a mass market phenomena, it now being more affordable and more easily acquired than any previous form.^[1] Left: halftone spots. ... Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer Ukiyo-e woodcut, Ishiyama Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1889) Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface...

First appearing in France, the new magazines featured nude (often, burlesque actresses were hired as models) and semi-nude photographs on the cover and throughout; while these would now be termed softcore, they were quite shocking for the time. The publications soon either masqueraded as "art magazines" or publications celebrating the new cult of naturism, with titles such as Photo Bits, Body in Art, Figure Photography, Nude Living and Modern Art for Men.^[1] Health & Efficiency, started in 1900, was a typical naturist magazine in Britain.^[4] Photograph of Sally Rand, 1934. ... Softcore is a form of pornography that is less explicit than hardcore pornography in depicting or describing sexual behaviour. ... The meanings of naturism and nudism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and public spaces. ...

Another early form of pornography were comic books known as Tijuana bibles that began appearing in the U.S. in the 1920s and lasted until the publishing of glossy colour men's magazines commenced. These were crude hand drawn scenes often using popular characters from cartoons and culture.^[5] A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The cover of a typical Tijuana bible. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ...

In the 1940s, the word "pinup" was coined to describe pictures torn from men's magazines and calendars and "pinned up" on the wall by U.S. soldiers in World War II. While the '40s images focused mostly on legs, by the '50s, the emphasis shifted to breasts. Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe were two of the most popular pinup models. In the second half of the 20th century, pornography evolved into the men's magazines such as Playboy and Modern Man of the 1950s. In fact, the beginning of the modern men's glossy magazine (or girlie magazine) can be traced to the 1953 purchase by Hugh Hefner of a photograph of Marilyn Monroe to use as the centerfold of his new magazine Playboy. Soon, this type of magazine was the primary medium in which pornography was consumed.^[6] A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... A pregnant womans breasts. ... Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American dancer, singer, and actress. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. ... Photograph of the once famous model Dovima A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... Playboy is an American mens magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. ...

These magazines featured nude or semi-nude women, sometimes apparently masturbating, although their genitals or pubic hair were not actually displayed. Penthouse, started by Bob Guccione in England in 1965, took a different approach. Women looked indirectly at the camera, as if they were going about their private idylls. This change of emphasis was influential in erotic depictions of women. Penthouse was also the first magazine to publish pictures that included pubic hair and full frontal nudity, both of which were considered beyond the bounds of the erotic and in the realm of pornography at the time. In the late 1960s, magazines began to move into more explicit displays often focusing on the buttocks as standards of what could be legally depicted and what readers wanted to see changed. By the 1970s, they were focusing on the pubic area and eventually, by the 1990s, featured sexual penetration, lesbianism and homosexuality, group sex, masturbation, and fetishes in the more hard-core magazines such as Hustler.^[1][6] Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ... Penthouse, a mens magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. ... Bob Guccione and friend Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione (b. ... Bottom commonly refers to the human buttocks but also has other uses. ... Sexual penetration (as opposed to outercourse) typically involves the insertion of the penis into a bodily orifice. ... This article is about homosexual women, not inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos A lesbian (lowercase L) is a homosexual woman. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Larry Flynt Hustler Club on West 52nd Street in New York Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. ...

Gay magazines

Magazines for every taste and fetish were soon created due to the low cost of producing them. Magazines for the gay community flourished, the most notable and one of the first being Physique Pictorial, started in 1951 by Bob Mizer when his attempt to sell the services of male models; however, Athletic Model Guild photographs of them failed. It was published in black and white, and was published for nearly 50 years. The magazine was innovative in its use of props and costumes to depict the now standard gay icons like cowboys, gladiators and sailors.^[1][7] The Athletic Model Guild was an old organization founded by gay pioneer Bob Mizer in the mid-1940s. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... For other uses, see Cowboy (disambiguation). ... Pollice Verso (With a Turned Thumb), an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. ... Three types of mariners are seen here in the wheelhouse: a master, an able seaman, and a harbour pilot. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Marilyn Chambers, John Leslie, Seymore Butts. Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization [DVD]. Koch Vision. ISBN 1-4172-2885-7
2. ^ Cross, J.M. (2001-02-04). Nineteenth-Century Photography: A Timeline. the Victorian Web. Retrieved on 2006-08-23.
3. ^ St. John, Kristen; Linda Zimmerman (June 1997). Guided Tour of Print Processes: Black and White Reproduction. Stanford library. Retrieved on 2006-08-24.
4. ^ About H&E Naturist. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.
5. ^ Adelman, Bob; Richard Merkin (September 1, 1997). Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s. New York: Simon & Schuster, 160. ISBN 0-684-83461-8. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Gabor, Mark (February 27, 1984). The Illustrated History of Girlie Magazines. New York: Random House Value Publishing. ISBN 0-517-54997-2. 
7. ^ Bianco, David. Physique Magazines. PlanetOut.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-10.

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See also

• Fetish magazine
• List of pornographic magazines
• Glamour photography
• Pubic Wars
• History of erotic depictions