Naughty Brits Magazine

This magazine could not be called anything other than Naughty Brits. It is as British as the football league, Sunday lunch and Ford Cortinas.

Naughty Brits Magazine is about bringing you lewd and rude pictures of the British girl next door, a popular and growing genre in porn. Of course because it can be bought in your newsagents the images are subject to the usual restrictions for such publications. Just the same as any other top-shelf magazine.

There are differences though. The established top shelf glossies have more advertising to break up the content. This may be due to the relative youth of the magazine and may therefore change later in its life. For the moment however enjoy it. It may also be because the magazine is tied in with xxxbrits.com via the website providing it with other ways of making money.

Like the aforementioned sites the magazine includes amateur, semi-amateur and pro shots. In the latest edition (number 2) you get a large selection of naked amateur pictures, a photo shoot with Keisha Kane and Ben Dover, readers letters, the latest naughty diary entries by Natalie the resident diarist – suitably filthy tales of course – and features/editorial.

You may find the mix of features (such as the swingers club coverage in issue 1), picture sets, stories and letters a little bewildering. The style is brash and deliberately bawdy, but if that’s what you want, no nonsense, dirty, girl next door porn from every town in Britain then you’ll love Naughty Brits.

As you can imagine from amateur photosets generated either by the public or in the model’s own living rooms and locales, the image quality isn’t always top-notch. That of course is the whole point. So if you’re looking for models carefully airbrushed until they look almost totally unlike human beings then don’t buy Naughty Brits.

To say this is a wank mag is not a criticism, because that’s what it aims to be. Naughty Brits has no pretentions and is deservedly proud of the fact.

Filament Magazine

The first thing that strikes you about Filament Magazine is that it is a glossy magazine without the gloss. I’ll explain, the magazine is bound in a satin cover and as you explore the pages there is no added gloss either.

It is lean, having stripped away all the things I previously disliked about girl’s monthlies you won’t find diets, celebrity gossip, makeup and fashion tips and the avalanche of advertising,

The result of stripping out all the un-necessary chaff is a grown up product without E-numbers it is additive free and feels organic.

Topics are varied, interesting and insightful and the photography is different and slightly edgy. Great to see male models being showcased competently, what the ladies like to look at tasteful and casually posed.

And you should see their recipe page, it’s unlike any other I have seen. In fact everything about Filament is fresh and exciting.

When you read Filament you feel part of the group, included in some way as the writers communicate with you rather than talk at you. I felt like I was in the company of girlfriends talking intelligently.

Advertising is kept to a minimum with the aim being to keep it down to less than 15%. Which is unusually low for a magazine, a fine balance between keeping the advertising down but enough to sustain publication.

Filament has attitude which blends well with the range of previously unexplored territory it covers but needs to ensure that it doesn’t try too hard to dare to be different for the sake of it in future issues. That said I do like the feisty approach and style.

On the whole Filament is a very good read and left me thinking as opposed to being consumered-out in the way that all the ads for shoes, fragrances and makeup in other magazines do. And no images of super-skinny women giving dietary advice either.

If you want a magazine to entertain, stimulate the grey matter and educate this ticks all the boxes but on the downside all this comes at a price. Seven pounds. I would like to think as the magazine grows in readership and gains advertisers the cover price will fall because regrettably that could be Filament’s Achilles heel.

And I for one would consider that a loss to all us thinking, sensual, sexual ladies out here.

The February edition of Lucrezia Magazine is out – According to Anastasia Mavromatis “To the Rainbow and Beyond presents the sexual diversity that existed (and exists) throughout history. Much can be said about the most recent discussions concerning amendments made to the US Constitution to reflect religious standards, and thereby prohibit same-sex marriage, but for this issue, we’ll stick to the positives and do what we do best, and that is to present a diverse collection of fine story telling, art, reviews and articles with a GLBT flavor.”

So what’s in the February Issue?

Art: Lucrezia takes you to Israel. This month you will see artwork from Israeli artist and photographer Raphael Perez. Raphael`s growth as an artist also reflects his personal experiences. His official web site, gaypaintings.com has had 25 million visitors, and grows by the day. His work is arresting, colorful, introspective, optimistic and socially significant.

Fiction: Our diverse selection explores unpredictable encounters, intimate rendezvous`, self-realization and unbridled passions, in many forms. Craig Sorensen adds a theatrical twist in Improvisation, prompting the question: who is the director and who is the actor? Mallory Path explores homoerotic intimacy, using her individual style to magnify heat, passion and libertinage. Claire Litton weaves a story that will tweak with your perception, exploring personal identity, loss and redemption. Kirsten Inani Kasai explores Sapphic passion, giving new meaning to the word ‘flash`; her story is like a bright blue flame, raising the bar for erotic flash fiction. A E Franzen returns this month with an epic tale that explores sexual dysfunction and (sensual) resolution, that will simultaneously resonate and arouse. Amanda Earl explores the resurrection of an older man’s passion and a younger man’s attraction, against the backdrop of Yellowknife mine.

Reviews: Eva Adivar explores the GLBT spectrum of sexcasts. From Evan and Paulie’s Gay Porn Talk, to fabulous Tranny Wreck, there is something for every one. I review a standout erotic anthology: Best Gay Erotica 2008 (Cleis Press), and our updated review of Polly Frost’s book (print and audio), Deep Inside, now includes an audio excerpt.

Articles: This month’s in depth interview with writer, poet and editor Alessia Brio, explores the Coming Together series of philanthropic erotic anthologies. Join Michael Cain as explores reciprocation, sex and the curse of the Ex in his essay Lost on a One-Way Street.

For Further Information Contact :
Anastasia Mavromatis at editor@lucreziamagazine.com Eddie Ostrowski at armailto:artsubs@lucreziamagazine.com

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It`s no longer a cloak and dagger affair to buy all but the most explicit adult magazines. You can buy Nuts, Zoo et al from the newsagents without even a second look from most of the other customers. OK, so if you opt for Penthouse or Mayfair you`ll have to be a little more circumspect but for the most part it`s easier to purchase printed “artistic” material of an adult nature than its ever been.

What`s surprising is that SHM (not FHM, I`m sure the similarity in naming was purely unintentional, LOL), would sit alongside Zoo and Nuts and from its outer cover look rather tame (and tasetful) in comparison. Until you open it …

S H Magazine is produced and published by swingingheaven.co.uk. The issue I`m reviewing here is issue 3. For the cover price of £4.99 I expected to find a magazine full of advertisements. Yes there are ads, but they are at a far lower level than I expected and all of them are relevant to the intended readership. It`s a refreshing change to find an adult publication whose rear pages in particular are not peppered with tacky small ads for premium rate phone lines.

So after that pleasant surprise, on to the content. Because the magazine is aimed at those in the swinging lifestyle the majority of the articles are written with those readers in mind. Luckily that doesn`t mean that non-swingers can`t enjoy them as the style is friendly, though occasionally slightly parochial in an endearing sort of way. This isn`t a criticism, it actually gives the magazine more character than I would have imagined (my preconceptions again), and makes it much easier to read.

The articles in issue 3 included reviews of swingers clubs, sex toys and erotic fiction (books). There`s a section on adult DVDs too, both 18 certificate and R18, and because this issue was published just prior to the Adults Only Show and The Xpo at the Barbican it has floor plans and visitors guides for those events too. Very thoughtful.

The articles also cover breast augmentation, BDSM, swinging solo and trans-gender issues, so as you can see this aims to be an inclusive and informative publication.

The last few pages contain a readers forum and “Readers` Pics”. The latter had me worried for a moment, as there are certain UK adult publications who insist on publishing “Readers` Wives” pictures of a rather variable quality. SHM however either exercises prudent quality control on the images or has a very hot looking readership *evil grin*.

So, would I pay £4.99 for SHM? Quite definitely, assuming that subsequent issues are of the same quality as issue 3. It`s an interesting read even for non-swingers and deserves every success

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