Lad Mags

Great analysis of various non-porn men’s magazines. Choice line: “The popularity of Nuts is, in some ways, as hard to understand as the success of the Sun – unless you take it for granted that a frightening percentage of young British men are sociopaths. There’s a very general discussion of what my lit-crit pals would call homosocial desire, and a more specific discussion of why the British ones are so much further downmarket than the American ones.