Comments on: Degree Fetishism: The ‘Times’ Does College Sex Magazines http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/ Sex & the internet, by Melissa Gira Grant Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mikey Mongol http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-545 Mikey Mongol Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:47:25 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-545 I think that Boink is the only one of the major college sex mags (and how could the Times leave out UPenn's <a href="http://www.quakemag.com" rel="nofollow">Quake</a>? For shame!) that is actually and unabashedly pornographic, and has no bones about marketing itself as such. The rest of them have to be more circumspect, if for no other reason than the grossly financial. Once you start paying models to pose explicitly, once it looks like you're for-profit, once you get the label "pornography" applied to you, funds from your school's activities programs start to dry up. Also, it's hard enough to find advertisers in a college sex mag when you're marketing yourself as "sex-oriented" or even "erotica". Once you cross the line to pornography, well, you're no longer skirting the edge of the Pink Ghetto. You're buried deep within, with all of the attendant issues. I think that more of the college mags would be more daring and more willing to veer into daring territory if it weren't for the financial issues, but as long as they're dependent on school funding and squeamish local advertisers, that's not likely to happen. I think that Boink is the only one of the major college sex mags (and how could the Times leave out UPenn’s Quake? For shame!) that is actually and unabashedly pornographic, and has no bones about marketing itself as such. The rest of them have to be more circumspect, if for no other reason than the grossly financial. Once you start paying models to pose explicitly, once it looks like you’re for-profit, once you get the label “pornography” applied to you, funds from your school’s activities programs start to dry up.

Also, it’s hard enough to find advertisers in a college sex mag when you’re marketing yourself as “sex-oriented” or even “erotica”. Once you cross the line to pornography, well, you’re no longer skirting the edge of the Pink Ghetto. You’re buried deep within, with all of the attendant issues.

I think that more of the college mags would be more daring and more willing to veer into daring territory if it weren’t for the financial issues, but as long as they’re dependent on school funding and squeamish local advertisers, that’s not likely to happen.

]]> By: Melissa Gira http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-547 Melissa Gira Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:34:38 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-547 You mean us reporting on reporting on...? (<em>This is how we do it, baby.</em>) You mean us reporting on reporting on…? (This is how we do it, baby.)

]]> By: Don Thieme http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-546 Don Thieme Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:31:12 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/03/05/degree-fetishism-the-times-does-college-sex-magazines/#comment-546 meta meta, was that? meta meta, was that?

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