Juggs
![]() First issue, August 1981 | |
Categories | Pornographic magazine |
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Frequency | monthly |
Circulation | 150,000 (in 1996)[1] |
Publisher | M M Publications, Ltd., Subsidiary of Mavety Media Group |
First issue | August 1981 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
ISSN | 0734-4309 |
Juggs is a softcore pornography adult magazine published in the United States that specializes in photographs of women with large breasts.
It has been called "the magazine of choice for breast men".[2]
Models featured included Norma Stitz,[3] Traci Lords,[4] Candy Samples,[5] Roberta Pedon and Tina Small.
It is published by Mavety Media Group (MMG), originally known for publishing gay pornography magazines in the United States,[6] and distributed by Larry Flynt Publications.[7] The magazine readership is mostly blue-collar men in the American South and Midwest.[8]
Dian Hanson, the magazine's editor for 15 years,[6][9] described it as "the epitome of bad taste... a humorous magazine, a sexual sideshow."[1]
The Dian Hanson years
From 1986 to 2001, Juggs was helmed by Dian Hanson, who had edited multiple pornographic magazines since 1977. She has said that when she took over Juggs and its sister publication Leg Show:[6]
Both of those magazines were published by MMG, which put out the majority of the gay magazines in America in the mid '80s. Juggs and Leg Show were put together by an all-gay staff, who didn't really care about them, but had lots of fun doing them. You could hear the hoots of laughter and derision.
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Hanson began putting in pictorials of women modeled after the Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric fertility symbol with enormous breasts and a massive belly, which she saw as a piece of early pornography for cavemen.[1][8] She also included the theme of erotic lactation in the magazine's headlines and short stories.[10] Hanson stated the magazine's monthly circulation nearly doubled, from 85,000 at the time she joined as editor to 150,000 by 1996.[1] Hanson said that Juggs was seen as less threatening to women than many other pornographic magazines, who saw its less than perfect models as closer to themselves, and were more willing to submit their photographs there than to any other magazine she worked at in 25 years.[6]
Hanson left Juggs in August 2001, a year after its publisher, George Mavety, died, leaving the company in the hands of people she didn't want to work for.[11]
Contributors
Heather Hooters has been a regular columnist since June 1994. The pornographic film actress Candy Samples had a regular column in Juggs from 1986 through August 2007.[5][12][13] Kelly Madison has been a regular columnist since June 2002.[14][15] Cartoonist Bill Ward wrote and illustrated an article a month for the magazine in his later years.[16]
In popular culture
The magazine title, a slang term for breasts, has become the perennial punch line of any joke that requires a pornographic magazine.[1][17] It is used by leading American media including Time Magazine, CBS News, and The New York Times as the immediately recognizable title of a pornographic magazine, without further explanation needed.[18][19][20][21][22]
After Juggs published a review of artist John Currin's exhibition in 1998,[23] the magazine's approval was still being used to define the artist's work 11 years later.[24]
In an episode of the television show Sex and the City which originally aired in 2000 (season 3 episode 15), Trey MacDougal is caught masturbating with the aid of a copy of Juggs magazine.[25]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Editing by desire" Archived 2007-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, November 1, 1996, by Michael Kaplan. On FindArticles.com. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ Jerry Saltz (17 November 1999). "The Redemption of a Breast Man". The Village Voice. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ Snow, Aurora (9 May 2015). "The Plight of the Over 50 Porn Star: Why Age Is Just a Number". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
Stitz says she got a late start in the industry by winning a layout contest for the Juggs magazine amateur section at the age of 35.
- ^ Anolik, Lili (15 September 2020). "'A Felony Just to Own': The Sleazy Story Behind Penthouse's Most Controversial Issue". Esquire.
- ^ a b "Candy Samples - Publicity", Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ a b c d "Dian Hanson" Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Michelle Golden, Index Magazine, 2002. Also at Index Magazine site. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "The resurrection of Larry Flynt - owner of Larry Flynt Publications Inc." Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, by Michael Kaplan, Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, June 15, 1993. On FindArticles.com. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ a b "The Soho Love Goddess", By Marshall Sella, January 31, 2000, New York magazine. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ Joseph W. Slade, "Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide III", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 0-313-31521-3, p.900
- ^ Bartlett, Alison (2005). Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding. UNSW Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780868409696.
- ^ "A Demimonde in Twilight", by Matthew Flamm, June 2, 2002, The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ August 2007 Table of Contents, Juggs Magazine official site. Retrieved 2007-11-08.[dead link]
- ^ Lentz III, Harris M. (2020). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019. McFarland. p. 357. ISBN 9781476679785.
- ^ Kelly Madison magazine appearances Archived 2006-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, Kelly Madison official site. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ December 2007 Table of Contents, Juggs Magazine official site. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "The best eye candy money can buy: The life of Bill Ward, good girl artist." Archived 2011-02-08 at WebCite, Eric Kroll, Taschen books, January 15, 2007. ISBN 3-8228-1290-0. Link retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "The Reigning Queen" Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Bob Massey, Baltimore City Paper, September 27, 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "A Miniaturist of the Novel Who Finds Phones Erotic", by William Grimes, January 30, 1992, The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "The Racist Inside" Archived 2007-03-21 at the Wayback Machine, by Alexis Soloski, Village Voice, January 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Cybersex Sells Meet The New Online Sex Entrepreneurs", CBS News, 1999-03-31. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Danni's hard drive to adult content success" Archived 2005-09-20 at the Wayback Machine, by Kelly Flynn, October 21, 2000, CNN.com. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Are We Not Men's Magazines?", by Bruce Handy, June 09, 1997, Time Magazine. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "We are not a muse", by Jessica Berens, August 31, 2003, The Observer. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Nothin’ Like the Old School" Archived 2008-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, by Mario Naves, The New York Observer, July 16, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ "Sex And The City - Season 3, Episode 15". Television of Yore. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2021.