List of men's magazines

Men's Health magazine, published by Rodale Press, is the best-selling men's magazine on US newsstands^[1]

This is a list of magazines primarily marketed to men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes both 'adult' pornographic magazines as well as more mainstream ones. Not included here are automobile and gadget magazines, many of which are primarily aimed towards men.

General male audience

These 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 Hispanics.

Americas

Europe

Asia

Oceania

Ethnic men's magazines

African/Afro-Caribbean American men's magazines

Latin American men's magazines

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Gay male audience

Also refer to List of LGBT periodicals

Lads' mags

Lads', Lads, or Laddie mags (magazines) (known exclusively as men's magazines in English-speaking North America) contain non-nude photography (or bare-breasted photography in the case of some British "lads' mags"), women accompanied by articles about the woman that is pictured (usually models or actresses); consumer stories about cars, tools, toys, music, TV and film, sports, foods, alcoholic beverages; or "guy tales" of sexual encounters.

International

• FHM (27 editions; 1985–2015)
• Maxim (16 editions)
• Stuff (7 editions)
• Zoo Weekly (3 editions; 2004–2015)

Americas

Europe

Oceania

• People (Australia)
• Ralph (Australia)

Sports magazines

• Black Sports Magazine
• FourFourTwo
• Ring Magazine
• Sportsnet Magazine

See also

• List of health and fitness magazines
• List of women's magazines
• Men's adventure magazine
• List of pornographic magazines

References

Bibliography

• Benwell, Bethan (2003). Masculinity and men's lifestyle magazines. Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts, USA: 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". Discourse and Society. Sage. 16 (2): 147–172. doi:10.1177/0957926505049616. 
• Benwell, Bethan (2007). "New sexism? Readers' responses to the use of irony in men's magazines". Journalism Studies, special issue: Mapping the Magazine. Taylor & Francis. 8 (4): 539–549. doi:10.1080/14616700701411797. 
• Benwell, Bethan (Spring 2001). "Male gossip and language play in the letters pages of men's lifestyle magazines". The Journal of Popular Culture. Wiley. 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. Sage. 7 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257438. 
• Stibbe, Arran (July 2004). "Health and the social construction of masculinity in "Men's Health" magazine". Men and Masculinities. Sage. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441. 
• 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". Men and Masculinities. Sage. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441. 

External links

• Calcutt, Andrew. Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman’s Magazine to GQ and Barack Obama at maglab.org.uk (November 2009)