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Myths & monsters special!

  • OUR MEN: Vampires, zombies, elves, gods and more
  • LAURELL K HAMILTON: On writing, the media and sex with shapeshifters
  • SEX EDUCATION: New ideas around the world that are changing how young people learn about sex
  • MONSTERS & OUR MINDS: Why we invent creatures to scare ourselves
  • PLUS MUCH MORE!
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Issue 6 – September 2010 – Myths & monsters

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  • Exclusive interview with best-selling author Laurell K Hamilton on the media, writing and sex with shapeshifters
  • Live-action role-play: overweight nerds with plastic swords, or sociable, creative pastime?
  • New ideas in sex education that are changing how young people learn about sexuality and relationships
  • Monsters and our minds: why fearsome creatures have haunted human imaginations since time began
  • Endometriosis: the illness that afflicts one in ten women, but few people have ever heard of
  • The art of Nykolai Aleksander: why she paints raw and intense men in rich, fantastical settings
  • Three genre-bending zombie greats to check out
Plus: Hot naked vampires, werewolves, zombies, elves and gods, erotic fiction, lavish illustration and loads of good fun.

Issue 5 – June 2010 – First birthday 1920s special

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  • Controversial singer/songwriter Amanda Palmer talks about music, love and running around naked covered in paint
  • Prohibition, power and subterfuge: examining the justifications for Prohibition in the 1920s and today
  • The flappers as a post-suffragist female identity, the first to use the freedoms we now take for granted
  • She shoots men: Vivienne Maricevic has been photographing men since 1976, but how much has really changed?
  • Is polyamory just free loving, or can it really work?
  • The Empire of Aristasia: the women who choose to live in a man-free world with no cultural artefacts beyond 1963
  • Cocaine: A closer look at the drug that fueled the sizzling 1920s
Plus: Lovely gents in gorgeous 1920s-styled shoots, erotic fiction, lavish illustration, adult join-the-dots and considerably more explicit content than ever before.

Issue 4 – March 2010

  • We interview artist, pornographer and doctor of human sexuality Annie Sprinkle
  • Japanese rope bondage: A history and how-to guide
  • The world's oldest porn – what ice age erotic sculpture tells us about the people who made it
  • A question of tolerance: Where should we draw the line?
  • Beyond two-dimensional female protagonists: Getting more women into the games industry
  • Borderline personality disorder: Challenging representations of a stigmatised condition
  • The joys, practicalities and pitfalls of the male-female-male threesome
Plus: A load of lovely gents, erotic fiction, readers’ lads, lavish illustration and all sorts of wonderful.

Issue 3 – December 2009

  • Comic writer Warren Ellis, New York society gal Gala Darling and Author Zoe Margolis guest on our advice columns
  • Going ecological on population control: Could limiting food supplies finally present a realistic solution to overpopulation?
  • Boylesque: The new and improved male stripping
  • Wearing a bra and breast cancer: Is there a connection?
  • The most unlikely porn director: Erika Lust talks about why she decided to make porn
  • Man-on-man for women: Syzygy talk about their new ‘gay for the girls’ magazine
  • Sex, love and disability: The controversial charity that helps disabled people find love, and sometimes, sex workers
Plus: Erotic fiction, readers’ lads, recipes, lavish illustration and a very adult join-the-dots.

Issue 2 – September 2009

  • Placebo’s new drummer Steve Forrest talks about androgyny, tattoos and which fellow band member he’d eat first
  • Why only women on erotica covers? Erotic fiction writers campaign for change
  • Pegging: Have a great time with your man and a strap-on
  • The way we’re wired: Examining the brain science between autism and cerebral palsy
  • Capoeira: How the dance and martial art is moving away from its patriarchal origins
  • Drugs and fair trade: Should you buy illegal drugs if you support the ethics of fair trade?
  • Why do so few women photograph men erotically? We feature and interview Britt Marie Trensmar and Migle Backovaite
Plus: Readers’ lads, lifestyle, etiquette, nutrition, a recipe, erotic fiction and lavish illustration

Issue 1 – June 2009

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  • Women and witchcraft: Did the witch trials really arise from men persecuting women?
  • Hard and soft-core ethics: Should only hard-core porn be subject to ethical scrutiny?
  • Controversial muslim comedian Shazia Mirza on boys, boobs and body hair
  • Alternative histories: What if the major events that shaped our world had turned out differently?
  • Our pubes: Dispelling the myth that these days we’re all bald as coots down below
  • Atheist parenting: Examining baptism, faith schools and the idea that faith underpins morality
  • Getting proficient at a musical instrument in record time through sensual connection
Plus: Lifestyle and etiquette, recipe, poetry, erotic fiction and lavish illustration