For those who like pretty men--
Aug. 5th, 2009 10:11 pmReproduced from http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7610
The beautifully-produced London-based magazine FILAMENT has a problem.
Explicit images of women are available at any newsagent, but Filament, the world’s only magazine featuring male pictorials designed for the female gaze, is finding itself between a rock and a hard place when it comes to printing explicit images of men.If they can sell another 300 copies of FILAMENT #1, they’ll have the money to switch to a printer that isn’t terrified of the cock, and then they can
Filament only prints explicit images when these are of high photographic and erotic quality, and clearly designed for women - we won’t ever be putting hard cocks on every page. The problem is, all the printers that a small, independent magazine like Filament can afford have said they won’t print images of the male of the species in a state of obvious arousal. Reasons given include that printing these images may cause offence to ’women’s groups’.
make history and print (we’re pretty sure) the first explicit male pictorial in a British women’s magazine.Link to the fundraising page. And, here, a link to the purchase page.