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)
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).