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Men's magazines: an A-Z

For many years, the term 'men's magazines' carried unsavoury connotations; it meant top-shelf, pornographic titles. In 1980s Britain, it had become an accepted wisdom that men only read specialist titles, about hobbies and interests such as cars, or porn. Yet, in 1950, Men Only and Lilliput were bought in their hundreds of thousands every month, alongside a range of humorous titles and glamour magazines based around pin-ups and girlie features. Many weekly papers, which turned into magazines in the 1960s, also thrived, such as Reveille, Weekend and Tit-Bits; all of these ran pin-ups. Somehow, though, British publishers allowed all the men's magazines to whither, Men Only being the prime example, though some were to be relaunched on the top-shelf of newsagents as 'adult' versions of their former selves.

Titles can be categorised, though many of them contain elements of several types and switch between types over the years. These pages cover the following categories of magazines:

men's fashion and style (eg Man About Town and GQ);

men's lifestyle (eg Town and Lilliput);

lads magazines (eg Loaded and Maxim);

weekly lads magazines such as Nuts and Zoo, the failed Cut and the Dennis digital magazine Monkey;

humour (eg Blighty, The Chap and Viz);

more special-interest men's magazines covering photography, art or gadgets that use 'girlie' or other elements as an important part of their appeal;

pin-up, glamour and girlie magazines (eg Reveille and Weekend);

top-shelf titles with some literary ambitions (eg Penthouse and Playboy).

Adventure titles and overtly pornographic titles are not covered. The 100-plus titles covered are grouped alphabetically in the pages below and indexed on the right; other titles are just shown as covers at the bottom of this page.