Wow, you gotta wonder. I can understand why guys read pr0n. I can understand why guys read demi-pr0n like Maxim. I can even understand why they read a range of men’s mags like muscle-whatever, car-whatever, clothing-whatever.
But BestLife (“WHAT MATTERS TO MEN”) is just–dunno. I am not going to lower myself by ripping the plastic off’n this thing (I think I’m getting this free from Salon.com), but here are the headlines on the cover, all of them lame, all with my commentary appended:
Lessons from King Tut, perhaps?
I can think of one reason why. Way #1: Don’t read them.
Abs ‘n’ buns of steel.
A new study: 1 in 10,000 men gets his dick tied in a knot while sleeping.
Why are “7” and “13” written as numbers but “TEN” written as a word?
Leave fishing to the specialists. Either you’re into it or you’re not
Totally fuck off. No man–gay, straight, or metro–is going to dig this shit.
But you neglect to tell us, did the cover fail to feature a Really Hot Babe[sup]TM[/sup] or a wicked cool mechanical object? Because then it really would fail on all counts…
Seriously, Pitting a magazine because it has eye-catching article names? Because it has tips on fatherhood rather than “The Ultimate Weight Loss Plan: The Last Diet You’ll Ever Need” yet again this month?
You know, I think I have a slight allergy to perfumes in their natural state. The samples in women’s magazines make me positively sick.
A few years ago, my girlfriend was doing research on sexuality, and I agreed to help her out. No, not like that, you pervert. OK, a lot like that, you pervert. But also in cultural ways, such as how the media distorts sexuality. I agreed to look at a few women’s magazines for articles like “How to Give Your Man the Ultimate Orgasm” and “Screw What We Said Last Month, Here Are the REAL Ways to Give Your Man the Ultimate Orgasm.” I read the extremely vacuous articles that were 110% fluff and -10% content.
A few months later, a bought a few more women’s magazines that had articles on my girlfriend’s research (ironically, they edited out the stuff about how women’s magazines are all fluff, and they just left in the fluff).
With all the perfume samples I had lying around, it smelled like had the corpse of a French whore stuffed under the floorboards.
Because that’s one i’ve never been able to fathom. You miss out on the skin offered by proper porn, and you are subjected to content apparently written by sophomore frat boys for junior high school boys.
I need to know more about this time bomb between my legs. The don’t have to call in the sniffing detector dog, and the little bomb disposal robot with the ouchy claws do they?
Same here. Could get it free with my slaon subscription and thought “what the heck”, sometimes men’s magazines (liek Esquire) have decent writing and interesting articles. If nothing else, I’ll get a little insight into the mind of the male. (I’m a straight female, BTW)
But, wow, is this magazine boring. Just a whole bunch of rehashed old content, dull layout, and poorly written and researched articles. The only thing I found interesting was an ad campaign for Perry Ellis featuring Jerry O’Connell looking scrumptious. And I can’t imagine that’ll interest many straight males.
