Look inside
We’ve provided a few samples of pages from Filament magazine below, so you can see what our awesome hard copy edition is like, including sold-out issues. Please note: These previews (and our online content) are provided to give folks a general idea of they types of things you’ll find in Filament. They do not reflect Filament’s overall variety of men, articles or explicitness.
Issue 9 – the music issue (sold out online – try stockists)
- The three hot stories than won our music-themed erotic fiction contest
- Masculinity in goth, metal and boy bands: how music subculture questions what it means to be manly
- How Morris dancing was once frequently performed naked, and considered a threat to civilised society
- Music, magic and the mind: the influence of music and the occult on our conceptions of consciousness
- Untranslatable: the words and phrases that capture a national psyche
- The atoms are singing: the physics that makes music sound good
Plus 35 pages of gorgeous undressed guys, cocktail recipes, games, quizzes and other cool stuff. Order it now.
Issue 8 – the wet issue (sold out online – try stockists)
- Three winning erotic stories from our fiction contest, selected by Violet Blue
- Exclusive interview with pioneer male nude photographer Dianora Niccolini
- Pirate women of the 1700s: why they chose to cross dress and plunder at sea
- Aquatic erotic: what wet sex guides don’t usually tell you
- Is Disney perverse? Looking at animated features through a Freudian lens
- How to start a business from home, in your spare time, and make it work
- Modern marriage: throwing out the rule book isn’t always easy
- Should street harassment be protected as free speech?
Plus a load of dripping wet men and loads more.
Issue 7 – the red issue (sold out online – try stockists)
- Exclusive interview with performance artist Marina Abramovic
- Red lights to red umbrellas: does prostitution law reform keep sex workers safe?
- Does testosterone really cause aggression?
- Naked ginger gents of London on being ginger.
- Who was the sexiest communist? We rate the revolutionaries
- Slash fiction: why women like to turn their favourite straight male characters gay
- Director Jennifer Lyon Bell on giving adult film an emotional kick
- Photographer Sita Mae Edwards on photographing alpha males.
Plus loads of beautiful men, saucy fiction, Ask a Feminist with Penny Red and our first ever comic strip.
Issue 6 – the myths & monsters issue (sold out online – try stockists)
- Exclusive interview with best-selling author Laurell K Hamilton
- Live-action role-play: overweight nerds with plastic swords, or sociable, creative pastime?
- New ideas in sex education
- Monsters and our minds: why fearsome creatures haunt our imaginations
- Endometriosis: a serious illness that afflicts one in ten women
- The art of Nykolai Aleksander: why she paints raw and intense men in rich, fantastical settings
- Three genre-bending zombie greats
Plus: Hot naked vampires, werewolves, zombies, elves and gods, erotic fiction, lavish illustration and loads of good fun.
Issue 5 – the 1920s issue (sold out online – try stockists)
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- Controversial singer/songwriter Amanda Palmer on music, love and running around naked covered in paint
- Prohibition, power and subterfuge: examining the justifications for prohibition in the 1920s and today
- The flappers as a post-suffragist female identity, the first to use the freedoms we now take for granted
- She shoots men: Vivienne Maricevic has been photographing men since 1976, but how much has really changed?
- Is polyamory just free loving, or can it really work?
- The Empire of Aristasia: the women who choose to live in a man-free world with no cultural artefacts beyond 1963
- Cocaine: A closer look at the drug that fueled the sizzling 1920s
Plus: Lovely gents in gorgeous 1920s-styled shoots, erotic fiction, lavish illustration, adult join-the-dots and considerably more explicit content than ever before.
Issue 4 – the Threesomes issue (totally sold out, terribly sorry)
- Interview with artist, pornographer and doctor of human sexuality Annie Sprinkle
- Japanese rope bondage: A history and how-to guide
- The world’s oldest porn – what ice age erotic sculpture tells us about the people who made it
- A question of tolerance: Where should we draw the line?
- Beyond two-dimensional female protagonists: Getting more women into the games industry
- Borderline personality disorder: Challenging representations of a stigmatised condition
- The joys, practicalities and pitfalls of the male-female-male threesome
Plus: A load of lovely gents, erotic fiction, readers’ lads, lavish illustration and all sorts of wonderful.
Issue 3 (sold out online – try stockists)
- Warren Ellis, Gala Darling and Abby Lee (Zoe Margolis) guest on our advice columns
- Ecological population control: Could limiting food supplies be a realistic solution to overpopulation?
- Boylesque: The new and improved male stripping
- Bras and breast cancer: Is there a connection?
- The most unlikely porn director: Erika Lust on why she makes porn for women
- Man-on-man for women: Syzygy talk about their new ‘gay for the girls’ magazine
- Sex, love and disability: The controversial charity that helps disabled people find love, and sometimes, sex workers
Plus erotic fiction, readers’ lads, recipes, lavish illustration and a very adult join-the-dots.
Issue 2 (sold out online – try stockists)
- Placebo’s drummer Steve Forrest interviewed on androgyny, tattoos and eating fellow band members
- Why only women on erotica covers? Erotic fiction writers fight sexism
- Pegging: Have a great time with your man and a strap-on
- The way we’re wired: Examining the brain science of autism and cerebral palsy
- Capoeira: How the dance and martial art is moving away from its patriarchal origins
- Drugs and fair trade: Should you buy illegal drugs if you support the ethics of fair trade?
- Why do so few women photograph men erotically? We feature and interview Britt Marie Trensmar and Migle Backovaite
Plus: Readers’ lads, lifestyle, etiquette, nutrition, a recipe, erotic fiction and lavish illustration
Issue 1 (totally sold out, terribly sorry)
- Women and witchcraft: Did the witch trials really arise from men persecuting women?
- Hard and soft-core ethics: Should only hard-core porn be subject to ethical scrutiny?
- Controversial muslim comedian Shazia Mirza on boys, boobs and body hair
- Alternative histories: What if major historical events had turned out differently?
- Your pubes: Dispelling the myth that these days we’re all bald as coots down below
- Atheist parenting: Examining baptism, faith schools and the idea that faith underpins morality
- Learning a musical instrument as an adult – what really helps?
Plus: Lifestyle and etiquette, recipe, poetry, erotic fiction and lavish illustration
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