Filament – the thinking woman’s crumpet

[I’m advertising at you again – what can I say, except that friends are doing cool stuff.]
My friend Suraya is launching a print magazine. This, in itself, is a sign of madness in today’s world, but thankfully hers is a beautiful madness, and a clever one too.
Filament magazine is “72 quarterly pages of intelligent thought and beautiful men”. It offers smart articles and sexy pictures aimed at straight women. Here’s the website, which is worksafe provided your work doesn’t mind topless men and the word “erotic”.
It’s likely not gonna be available in shops (unless some enterprising indie mag shops chase Suraya down and ask to carry it, I guess) – but you can grab it easily using Paypal. Looksee. And if you act fast you can pick it up cheap! Reduced prices until the end of Wednesday (U.K. time?)!
It sounds like a great idea for a mag to me (speaking as someone who thinks an awful lot about the magazine as medium but is profoundly disappointed whenever he stands in front of a magazine sales rack). I’ve put my money where my mouth is and signed up for a copy, even though (as the alert among you may have noticed) i’d be a pretty poor excuse for a straight woman. But don’t take my word for it: terrifying internet prophet Warren Ellis has also lent his support.
If it sounds like your flavour of crumpet, you know what to do.

4 thoughts on “Filament – the thinking woman’s crumpet”

  1. Though as Violet Blue tweeted :
    ‘the thinking woman’s crumpet’ is a nice idea, but I still want a real girl’s porn mag (with cock, mkay?) :

  3. I was confused by Violet Blue’s tweet on the matter of cock myself!
    I’m not sure where she got the idea that we don’t have any. Our FAQ on the matter says “We have explicit moments, but we put explicit images to the same test as any other image: it has to be well composed, imaginative and generally representative of The Female Gaze. There is no evidence to suggest women prefer ‘subtle’ images to explicit ones, but nobody likes explicitness for its own sake. So if you want to see a hard cock on every page, Filament is probably not the magazine you want. Same applies if seeing one would make you faint.”
    Also, thank you muchly for spreading the word Morgue, you’re coolness 🙂

  4. Not an abundance of cock exactly, but certainly it is explicit enough that a distributor asked that it go in plastic and have an “explicit content” warning on the cover.
    Very confused as to how Violet Blue reached said conclusion – have asked her to clarify.

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