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 'adult' pornographic magazines as well as more mainstream ones. Not included here are automobile, trains, modelbuilding periodicals and gadget magazines which happen to have a predominantly male audience.

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 Mexicans.

Americas[]

Europe[]

Asia[]

Oceania[]

Ethnic men's magazines[]

African American men's magazines[]

Latin American men's magazines[]

Gay male audience[]

Also refer to List of LGBT periodicals.

Men's lifestyle magazines[]

Men's lifestyle magazines (lads' mags or laddie mags in the UK and specifically men's magazines in North America) contain non-nude photography or bare-breasted at most, accompanied by articles about the woman that is pictured (usually models, actresses or other celebrities) supplemented with consumer stories about men's fashion, cars, tools, toys, music, TV and film, sports, foods, alcoholic beverages; or "guy tales" of sexual encounters.

International[]

• FHM
• Maxim
• Stuff
• Zoo Weekly (defunct)

America[]

United States

• Blender (defunct)
• King
• Mob Candy
• Open Your Eyes (defunct)
• Smooth
• Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
• Sylk Magazine

Colombia

• Donjuan
• SoHo

Others

• H Para Hombres (Mexico)
• UMM (Canada)
• Urbe Bikini (Venezuela)

Europe[]

Oceania[]

• People (Australia)
• Ralph (Australia) (defunct)
• (New Zealand)

Sports magazines[]

• Black Sports Magazine (defunct)
• Ring Magazine
• Sportsnet Magazine (defunct)

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" (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[]

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