dirty magazine

Explicit printed material

A dirty magazine is a publication containing sexually explicit photographs or content, typically sold at newsstands or adult shops.

The term is somewhat dated, evoking an era when pornography circulated primarily in print: He kept a stack of dirty magazines under his bed.

Now largely displaced by internet pornography.

Related

print · underground press · obscenity laws · counterculture · erotica · brown paper bag · plain wrapper · back room · news stand · censorship · sexual liberation · objectification · publisher · pin-up · taboo · moral panic · distributor · stigma

Opposites
sexual explicitness

dirty magazineNational Geographic

Nature and exploration periodical

news magazine · church bulletin · cookbook · Good Housekeeping · scientific journal

moral/social respectability

dirty magazineSunday paper

Thick end-of-week publication

moral/social acceptability

dirty magazinechurch newsletter

Congregation's periodic publication

school newspaper · community bulletin · Guideposts

Family

dirty, dirt, dirtier, dirtiest, dirtily, dirtiness, magazine, magazines

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13