Carl Pettit explains how the stress of breaking news, 24/7, is breaking you down.
“It really helps to have a good realistic idea of what actual people look like naked.”
July 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
This is a comment by Kaija on the post “Results: nudity = not sexual. Even if the other person is attractive. Not a turn on.”
“I think objectification mostly just hurts people.”
July 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
These are comments by DZ and John Anderson on the post “Magic Mike: On the Objectification of Men”.
The Before Body
February 27, 2012 By 78 Comments
(Hat tip to Sociological Images.) Below the cut, we have a fascinating video in which a man becomes both the “before” and the “after” body for a weight-loss, muscle-gain ad– within only a few hours. To get the after body, he lifts weights (to make his muscles more prominent), tans, sprays his body with PAM, takes the picture [...]
Cover Me, I’m Going In: SI Swimsuit Edition 2012
February 19, 2012 By 63 Comments
Jamie Reidy wonders how little is too little when it comes to bikinis and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Have Better Sex … Tonight?
February 12, 2012 By 9 Comments
Shawn Peters, a.k.a. Mis(ter) Communication, wonders who those women’s magazine headlines are talking to.
MILFs and Happy Endings
July 19, 2011 By 95 Comments
The 10 at 10
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bob Knight is tired, the Aflac duck is an idiot, and magazines make us feel bad.
Apps Can’t Save Magazines But Maybe We Can
December 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
It has never been easier to fall in love with a magazine all over again. Please.
You Could Be the Next Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek
October 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
As one of the last print-based newsweeklies on the market, Newsweek may represent an era of journalism that’s going the way of the broadsheet. (Don’t know what a broadsheet is? Exactly.)
Study of the Day: The Health Benefits of Celebrity Magazines
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today’s prescription: two doses of OK! and a shot of Us Weekly. We’re kidding (sort of), but according to a new study at the University of Missouri, celebrity tabloids may have a notably positive impact on the way their readers approach health issues. “Based on the discussion of participants, we observed that it is possible [...]
We Read Other Men's Magazines So You Don't Have To: Oh, the Agony of Zac Efron
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Magazine: Details Issue: September 2010 Story: The Agony of Zac Efron by Andrew Goldman This month’s issue of Details features a lengthy cover story on Zac Efron, the peripherally grating, perennially grinning star of High School Musical whom we’re all more or less resigned to glumly stare at in the check-out aisle at Wal-Mart. But [...]
“There are no ‘secrets’ to men or to women. What works 100% of the time is clear, open, and honest communication.”
This is a comment by Carlo Alcos on the post “20 Things I’ve Learned About Men from Working at Penthouse”.