Filament (magazine)

{{Short description|Defunct British erotic quarterly magazine}}

{{Infobox Magazine

|title = Filament

|image_file = Filament5.jpg

|image alt =

|image_caption = June 2010 cover

|logo = Filament magazine logo.svg

|category = Women's magazines

|frequency = Quarterly / biannually{{cite web|title=Changes to Filament's publishing schedule |url=http://filamentmag.livejournal.com/41729.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816043011/http://filamentmag.livejournal.com/41729.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 August 2011 |author=Suraya Sidhu Singh |date=4 November 2010 |work=Filament magazine |publisher=LiveJournal |accessdate=5 April 2011 }}

|language = English

|editor = Suraya Sidhu Singh

|editor_title = Editor

|firstdate = June 2009

|lastdate = December 2011

|country = United Kingdom

|website = [http://www.filamentmagazine.com/ Filament]

|issn = 2041-1472

}}

Filament was a British erotic magazine aimed at women,{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/can-an-excivil-servant-finally-persuade-women-to-buy-erotica-1691814.html|title=Can an ex-civil servant finally persuade women to buy erotica?|last1=Taylor|first1=Jerome|date=28 May 2009|work=The Independent|accessdate=26 June 2009}} published in the United Kingdom. It ran for 9 issues, from June 2009 to December 2011.{{cite web|date=November 2011 |url=http://www.filamentmagazine.com/2011/11/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/ |author=Suraya |title=All Good Things Must Come To An End |accessdate=1 August 2012 |archivedate=2 August 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802053554/http://www.filamentmagazine.com/2011/11/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/ |url-status=dead }}

The magazine featured both explicit and non-explicit pornographic imagery of men, designed specifically for heterosexual women (as distinct from that designed for gay men).{{cite web|url=http://www.filamentmagazine.com/FAQs.aspx |title=FAQ |accessdate=8 July 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726100010/http://www.filamentmagazine.com/faqs.aspx |archivedate=26 July 2009 |url-status=dead }} The magazine claimed to use "academic and primary research" in producing its content.{{cite web|url=http://www.filamentmagazine.com/the-female-gaze/ |title=The Female Gaze, Filament Magazine website |accessdate=28 June 2009 |archivedate=19 June 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619065952/http://www.filamentmagazine.com/the-female-gaze/ |url-status=dead }}

Critical reactions to Filament were varied. Voxpops with women undertaken by New Zealand current affairs programme Close Up were mixed,{{cite web|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/taranaki-girl-creates-new-sex-mag-2774134/video|title=Close Up: Taranaki girl creates new sex mag|date=9 June 2009|publisher=Television New Zealand|accessdate=30 September 2011}} and those undertaken by British chat show The Wright Stuff were mainly negative,{{cite web|url=http://curiouslypersistent.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/filament-magazine-for-the-female-gaze/|title=Filament magazine – for the female gaze - Curiously Persistent|work=Curiously Persistent|author=Simon Kendrick|date=7 June 2009|accessdate=13 July 2009}} though some blogs were positive in their reception of the magazine.{{cite web|title=Exoskeleton Cabaret |url=http://exoskeletoncabaret.com/2009/06/22/filament-magazine-1/ |date=22 June 2009 |accessdate=13 July 2009 |archivedate=18 October 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018110644/http://exoskeletoncabaret.com/2009/06/22/filament-magazine-1/ |url-status=usurped }}{{cite web|url=http://squidgemag.com/2009/06/filament-magazine-erotica-for-women/|title=Squidge Mag|date=June 2009|access-date=2009-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622002954/http://squidgemag.com/2009/06/filament-magazine-erotica-for-women/|archive-date=2009-06-22|url-status=dead}}