“What’s so manly about men’s magazines?” asked a female colleague, flipping through my copy of Man’s World (Ever since Gentleman shut shop, I seek my pleasures here). I was a bit perplexed. Had it been a Debonair, Fantasy or the like I would have had an appropriate answer. “Well they discuss men, their problems (girls), gizmos and stuff” I cooked up an answer. “But women’s magazines are also on the same lines, what is then so exclusively male about men’s magazines,” the argument continued…
Yesterday when I flipped through the first issue of Maxim’s India edition, I found an end to the argument. It’s definitely not ‘the best thing to happen to men since women’ but I won’t mind inflating my periodicals bill by Rs. 60 a month. The female focussed market so long failed to comprehend that the Indian male has needs beyond politics, business, sports and topless models. The other men mags (of the non-topless model variety) which my constrained memory recalls reading is the bimonthly GT (another extinct species?) from the Times of India stable.
With news floating around about Playboy going desi (sans the bunnies of course), this summer should be sizzling. Didn’t read much of Maxim, but a quick flip tells me that if not intellectually stimulating, it sure is visually appealing.
and for us men, visual appeal is better than mental stimulation.
hey saumya, read ur posts after a while…read ’em all i missed….good work, keep it up buddy!! me in india njoying the colors..too many thots to post, will do it soon…
stimulating alright!!!!!!!men have become twice as obsessive as women when it comes to thier lifestyle. So nudity is not as appealing as much as your biceps i think.
visual appeal is all it takes to sell it!
hmmmmm… naughty boy!!!!and how could u even think that i’d leave u so easily?????no way!!!!
I am with Abaniko on this. My friend had this T-shirt which said, “I’d rather have beauty than brains because men can see better than they can think”. 😉I had once done a < HREF="http://ritasays.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-women-read.html" REL="nofollow">post<> on women’s magazines. 🙂
I don’t know what to say. So I will share this anecdote. Once the magazine Gentlemen called me, but I refused to listen to them because of their reputation! I think they wanted me to write for it but then I didn’t talk to them long enough to find that out!