# So I guess all of Esprix's posts are "porn," too, then? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244 "2001-11-08T18:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/1 "2001-11-08T18:55:22Z")
I went to the Hudson News stand in Grand Central just now to find the new issue of “The Advocate,” which has a cover story on “AbFab” (p.s. that issue’s not out yet). So I look in General Interest; I look in Lifestyles. I look in Newsweeklies and Show Business and Fashion . . . I finally ask where it is, and I am haughtily pointed to the Porn section, where “Out” and “The Advocate” are nestled cozily alongside “Sluts ‘n’ Slobs” and “Juggs.” WTF?! So tits and dicks rags like “Cosmo” and “Men’s Health” and “Esquire” are in the General Interest secion, but “The Advocate” is PORN? Hudson News is going to get a Sternly Worded letter from THIS annoyed het. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/2 "2001-11-08T19:04:23Z")
Fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/3 "2001-11-08T19:09:31Z")
Ick. So where do they put Maxim? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/4 "2001-11-08T19:11:01Z")
How the Heck are _Out_ and [i\]The Advocate\* designated as PORN?? There’s nary a weiner to be seen in either of them. They’re news and lifestyle magazines for gay folks. Heck, if they want to misfile magazines, they should should put _Men’s Workout_ and _Men’s Physique_ in the porn section, since they’re basically stroke mags for closet cases. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/5 "2001-11-08T19:11:22Z")
Dunno… every time I see Exprix’s name in the Last Post column, I get an erection. [sub]Dosen’t everybody?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/6 "2001-11-08T19:15:42Z")
I meant Esprix, of course. Don’t know who this Exprix fella is. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/7 "2001-11-08T19:24:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by black455 \* > \*\*Dunno… every time I see Exprix’s name in the Last Post column, I get an erection. > > [sub]Dosen’t everybody?[/sub] \*\* ::check self:: Nope. Not at all. Not possible. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/8 "2001-11-08T19:27:18Z")
In the store yesterday I saw _Maxim_ behind the counter, in a sealed bag. The bag could be for a promo with this month’s issue, I suppose, but why is it behind the counter? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/9 "2001-11-08T19:36:20Z")
One local grocery store chain now puts **Cosmo** behind one of those porno-partitions in the racks near the cash registers. Apparently they had a lot of complaints from “what about the children” types about the racy covers. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/10 "2001-11-08T19:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\* . . . stroke mags for closet cases. \*\* If I am ever in another all-original band, I am definitely pushing this name for an album. See, Eve, this is why you gotta join us on the Dark Side and shop at B&N. They’re enlightened enough to have a “gay interest” section. ---
**Author:** ![abuse\_angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@abuse\_angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abuse_angel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/11 "2001-11-08T20:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > In the store yesterday I saw Maxim behind the counter, in a sealed bag. The bag could be for a promo with this month’s issue, I suppose, oh, i hope that means that the new _maxim_ has a calendar. their last one only went through september, and i’ve been hoping they’d print another. > [@](#): > > but why is it behind the counter? maybe the clerk thinks bag = porn and just throws anything sealed back there? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/12 "2001-11-08T20:35:59Z")
Nope, no calendar this month. I’ve already read every printed word in it and nary a calendar. I believe they printed a separate calendar this year, with the intention of jacking up the price and selling it, sans magazine. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/13 "2001-11-08T20:55:45Z")
Pretty sure they’d miss the revenue from ±10% (nobody ask me for a cite, it’s just what I’ve heard) of the population if word ever got out about HN’s product placement of (what sounds like) non-pornographic lifestyle magazines. Fuckers. Perhaps a letter to the above mentioned magazines may also be beneficial. They could get the word out to their readership. BTW, I buy car magazines in plastic covers (for special editions, etc) all the time, so I doubt they automatically put them behind the counter. I’ll play devil’s advocate (no pun intended) though: by definition, sexual identity has to do with sex. Perhaps an unknowing hetero sees the topic of the magazine, doesn’t peruse it to see it’s actual content, and puts it with the porno. I dunno, guess it could’ve happened that way. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/14 "2001-11-08T21:10:05Z")
man, its like im readin’ dutch or something. i have no idea what you people are talkin’ about! i guess i’m fuckin’ out of it! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/15 "2001-11-08T21:26:07Z")
Macro Man—I’ll wager “Out” and “The Advocate” already know . . . I work at a mag, and we keep up very much on newsstand placement. gatopescado—“Out” and “The Advocate” are very respectible gay lifestyles/news magazines, both with plenty in 'em to interest straights, too. But Hudson News has decided that anything to do with them “homosexamules” must be dirty, so the mags are displayed alongsode the hard-core porn. ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/16 "2001-11-08T21:32:08Z")
Eve: So you don’t think this is an isolated case? It has the same product placement at all HNs? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/17 "2001-11-08T21:43:52Z")
I dunno, but I suspect so. Do any of our gay Dopers buy these mags regularly? ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/18 "2001-11-08T21:53:23Z")
No, unfortunately. Sua ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/19 "2001-11-08T22:06:33Z")
**Eve** wrote: “…the new issue of “The Advocate,” which has a cover story on “AbFab” (p.s. that issue’s not out yet).” Very punny, girl. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244/20 "2001-11-08T23:44:10Z")
I have in the past seen stores that put the gay mags by the porn mags. This only adds to the relative trauma of buying a gay magazine when one is 13… sheesh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-guess-all-of-esprixs-posts-are-porn-too-then/92244.md?page=2)