This is a list of men's magazines from around the world. These are magazines (periodical print publications) that have been published primarily for a readership of men.
The list has been split into subcategories according to the _target audience of the magazines. This list includes adult magazines. Not included here are magazines which may happen to have, or may be assumed to have, a predominantly male audience - such as magazines focusing on cars, trains, modelbuilding and gadgets. The list excludes online publications.
General male audience
editThese publications appeal to a broad male audience. Some skew toward men's fashion, others to health. Most are marketed to a particular age and income demographic. In the US, some are marketed mainly to a specific ethnic group, such as African Americans or Mexicans.
Americas
editCanada
- Classic Style Magazine (defunct)
- Complex (defunct)
- Details (defunct)
- Esquire US
- GIANT (defunct)
- GQ USA
- Hustler
- Indy Men's Magazine (defunct)
- Maxim
- Men's Fitness (defunct)
- Men's Health US
- Men's Journal
- Men's Vogue (defunct)
- Muscle & Fitness
- New Man (defunct)
- Oui (defunct)[2][circular reference]
- Playboy (1953–2020) (defunct)
- Penthouse (1965–present)
- Tiger (defunct)
- Xirimiri Magazine
Europe
editBelgium
- Men Magazine (since 1998)
- Buck (defunct)
- The Chap
- Esquire UK
- FHM
- Loaded
- Lusso Magazine
- Magnate (defunct)
- Man About Town
- Men's Health UK
- Nuts (defunct)
- Sorted
- Zoo (defunct)
Others
Asia
editJapan
India
Others
Oceania
edit- Alpha (defunct)
- Chance International (defunct)
- GQ Australia
- Men's Health Australia
- Robb Report (Australia)
Ethnic men's magazines
editAfrican American men's magazines
editLatin American men's magazines
edit- Hombre
- Open Your Eyes (defunct)
Gay male audience
edit- The Advocate
- Attitude
- AXM (defunct)
- Badi
- Bear Magazine
- bent
- Blue
- Boyz
- Butt
- DNA
- fab (defunct)
- FourTwoNine
- G Magazine (defunct)
- G-Men
- Gay Times
- Genre (defunct)
- Hello Mr. (defunct)
- Instinct
- Männer
- MyKali
- Next Magazine
- Out
- Outlooks (defunct)
- QX
- Siegessäule
- Têtu
- XY
- Zero (defunct)
Men's lifestyle magazines
editMen's lifestyle magazines (lad mags in the UK and specifically men's magazines in North America) were popular in the 1990 and 2000s, focusing on a mix of "sex, sport, gadgets and grooming tips".[3] From the early 2000s, sales of these magazines declined very substantially as the internet provided the same content (and particularly more graphic pornography) for free.
International
edit- Rogue Magazine
- FHM
- Maxim
- Stuff
- Zoo Weekly (defunct)
Americas
edit- Blender (defunct)
- King
- Mob Candy
- Open Your Eyes (defunct)
- Smooth
- Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Colombia
Others
- H Para Hombres (Mexico)
- UMM (Canada)
- Urbe Bikini (Venezuela)
Europe
editUK
- Front (defunct)
- Gear (defunct)
- Hera Magazine International
- Loaded
- Nuts (defunct)
- Zip Magazine (defunct)(defunct)
Scandinavia
Oceania
edit- M2 Magazine (New Zealand)
- People (Australia) (defunct)
- The Picture (Australia) (defunct)
- Ralph (Australia) (defunct)
See also
editCitations
edit- ^ Kinetz, Erika (3 September 2006). "Who's the Man? Dave". The New York Times. Archived from the original on Feb 16, 2023.
- ^ Oui (magazine)
- ^ "Sex doesn't sell as lads mags suffer". BBC News. 1999-08-16. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
General and cited references
edit- Benwell, Bethan (2003). Masculinity and men's lifestyle magazines. Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts, US: Blackwell Pub./Sociological Review. ISBN 9781405114639.
- Benwell, Bethan (March 2005). ""Lucky this is anonymous!" Men's magazines and ethnographies of reading: A textual culture approach" (PDF). Discourse and Society. 16 (2): 147–172. doi:10.1177/0957926505049616. hdl:1893/13065. S2CID 144963267.
- Benwell, Bethan (2007). "New sexism? Readers' responses to the use of irony in men's magazines" (PDF). Journalism Studies. 8 (4): 539–549. doi:10.1080/14616700701411797. hdl:1893/13077. S2CID 18568206.
- Benwell, Bethan (Spring 2001). "Male gossip and language play in the letters pages of men's lifestyle magazines". The Journal of Popular Culture. 34 (4): 19–33. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2001.3404_19.x.
- Benwell, Bethan (July 2004). "Ironic discourse: evasive masculinity in men's lifestyle magazines". Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257438. S2CID 145210684.
- Stibbe, Arran (July 2004). "Health and the social construction of masculinity in "Men's Health" magazine" (PDF). Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441. S2CID 109931551.
- Betrock, Alan (1993). Pin-up mania!: the golden age of men's magazines, 1950-1967. Brooklyn, New York: Shake Books. ISBN 9780962683350.
- Jackson, Peter; Stevenson, Nick; Brooks, Kate (2001). Making sense of men's magazines. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 9780745621760.
- Stibbe, Arran (July 2004). "Health and the social construction of masculinity in "Men's Health" magazine" (PDF). Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441. S2CID 109931551.
External links
edit- Calcutt, Andrew. "Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman's Magazine to GQ and Barack Obama", Maglab (November 2009).