2008 Woodie Awards
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'Diamond:' a boy's best friend
Harvard's new erotica magazine may hit campus next fall
Priyanka Dev
"It should be done in a tasteful way," College junior and Women's Studies major Barrie Nussbaum said. "It can be sexual without actual nudity."
Nussbaum added that she feared that Diamond may become a popular icon similar to Facebook or JuicyCampus.com.
"If it develops that obsessive talk and becomes sort of stigmatized, that would be really unfortunate," Nussbaum said.
Penn's only prior experience with literotica was Quake Magazine, an erotic magazine that Kelly Writers House and the Student Activities Council sponsored three years ago. It lasted for only one issue in spring of 2005 before it faded out.
But some feminists would still support a magazine like Diamond, according to College sophomore Rachel Squire, the editor of feminist literary journal The F-word.
"Feminism is divided," she said. "There are women that believe that as long as something isn't harming anybody, then why should it harm you?"
Squire said she was worried about a magazine like Diamond because "no matter what, people will react strongly."
Nussbaum added that she feared that Diamond may become a popular icon similar to Facebook or JuicyCampus.com.
"If it develops that obsessive talk and becomes sort of stigmatized, that would be really unfortunate," Nussbaum said.
Penn's only prior experience with literotica was Quake Magazine, an erotic magazine that Kelly Writers House and the Student Activities Council sponsored three years ago. It lasted for only one issue in spring of 2005 before it faded out.
But some feminists would still support a magazine like Diamond, according to College sophomore Rachel Squire, the editor of feminist literary journal The F-word.
"Feminism is divided," she said. "There are women that believe that as long as something isn't harming anybody, then why should it harm you?"
Squire said she was worried about a magazine like Diamond because "no matter what, people will react strongly."
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joba chamberlain
posted 4/07/08 @ 9:51 AM EST
Please don't let there be a magazine like this at Penn.
There aren't any hot girls here to grace the magazine.
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