Juggs

From 1986 to 2001, Juggs was helmed by Dian Hanson, who had edited multiple pornographic magazines since 1977. She has said that when she took over Juggs and its sister publication Leg Show:Michele Golden. (8 October 2007). [http://www.michellegolden.net/indexmag.html "Dian Hanson"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008034842/http://www.michellegolden.net/indexmag.html}}, Index Magazine, 2002. Also at [http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/dian_hanson.shtml Index Magazine site]. Retrieved 8 November 2007.

{{blockquote|Both of those magazines were published by MMG, which put out the majority of the gay magazines in America in the mid '80s. Juggs and Leg Show were put together by an all-gay staff, who didn't really care about them, but had lots of fun doing them. You could hear the hoots of laughter and derision.}}

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Hanson began putting in pictorials of women modeled after the Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric fertility symbol with enormous breasts and a massive belly, which she saw as a piece of early pornography for cavemen.Michael Kaplan. (1 November 1996). [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n16_v25/ai_18816220 "Editing by desire"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214220520/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n16_v25/ai_18816220|date=14 December 2007}}, Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, On FindArticles.com. Retrieved 8 November 2007. She also included the theme of erotic lactation in the magazine's headlines and short stories.{{cite book|title=Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ihy2DEx6b4C&pg=PA100|author=Alison Bartlett|publisher=UNSW Press|year=2005|isbn=9780868409696|page=100

|location=Sydney}} Hanson stated the magazine's monthly circulation nearly doubled, from 85,000 at the time she joined as editor to 150,000 by 1996. Hanson said that Juggs was seen as less threatening to women than many other pornographic magazines, who saw its less than perfect models as closer to themselves, and were more willing to submit their photographs there than to any other magazine she worked at in 25 years.

Hanson left Juggs in August 2001, a year after its publisher, George Mavety, died, leaving the company in the hands of people she did not want to work for.Matthew Flamm. (2 June 2002).[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E6D7173AF931A35755C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print "A Demimonde in Twilight"], The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2007.

Heather Hooters was a regular columnist from June 1994.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The pornographic film actress Candy Samples had a regular column in Juggs from 1986 through August 2007.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760121/publicity "Candy Samples - Publicity"], Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 8 November 2007. Kelly Madison was a regular columnist from June 2002.{{cite web

|url=http://kellymadison.com/dreamweaver_pages/mags.html|title=Kelly's Professional Pictorials|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716001220/http://kellymadison.com/dreamweaver_pages/mags.html|archive-date=16 July 2006|website=Kelly Madison official site|access-date=8 November 2007}} Cartoonist Bill Ward wrote and illustrated an article a month for the magazine in his later years.{{cite book|url=http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sex/reading_room/158.the_best_eye_candy_money_can_buy.3.htm|title=The best eye candy money can buy: The life of Bill Ward, good girl artist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517002157/http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sex/reading_room/158.the_best_eye_candy_money_can_buy.3.htm|archive-date=17 May 2011|author=Eric Kroll|website=Taschen books|date=15 January 2007|isbn=978-3-8228-1290-7|access-date=6 December 2007}}

The magazine title, a slang term for breasts, has become the perennial punch line of any joke that requires a pornographic magazine.Bob Massey. (27 September 2006).[http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=12701 "The Reigning Queen"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308084958/http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=12701|date=8 March 2009}}, Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved 8 November 2007. It is used by leading American media including Time Magazine, CBS News, and The New York Times as the immediately recognizable title of a pornographic magazine, without further explanation needed.William Grimes. (30 January 1992).[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DB1F3FF933A05752C0A964958260 "A Miniaturist of the Novel Who Finds Phones Erotic"], The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2007.Alexis Soloski. (16 January 2007). [http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0703,soloski,75559,11.html "The Racist Inside"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321171511/http://www.villagevoice.com/theater/0703%2Csoloski%2C75559%2C11.html |date=21 March 2007}}, Village Voice. Retrieved 8 November 2007.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersex-sells/ "Cybersex Sells Meet The New Online Sex Entrepreneurs"], CBS News, 31 March 1999. Retrieved 8 November 2007.Kelly Flynn. (21 October 2000). [http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/21/index.ashe/cover.ashe/ "Danni's hard drive to adult content success"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050920135022/http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/21/index.ashe/cover.ashe/|date=20 September 2005}}, CNN. Retrieved 8 November 2007.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986510-1,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307071743/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986510-1,00.html|archive-date=7 March 2009|title=Are We Not Men's Magazines?|author=Bruce Handy|date=9 June 1997|magazine=Time Magazine|access-date=23 September 2001}}

After Juggs published a review of artist John Currin's exhibition in 1998,Jessica Berens. (31 August 2003). [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1032638,00.html "We are not a muse"], The Observer. Retrieved 8 November 2007. the magazine's approval was still being used to define the artist's work 11 years later.. Mario Naves. (16 July 2007). [http://www.observer.com/2007/nothin-old-school "Nothin’ Like the Old School"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318223330/http://www.observer.com/2007/nothin-old-school|date=18 March 2008}}, The New York Observer. Retrieved 8 November 2007.

In an episode of the television show Sex and the City which originally aired in 2000 (season 3 episode 15), Trey MacDougal is caught masturbating with the aid of a copy of Juggs magazine.{{cite web|website=Television of Yore|title=Sex And The City - Season 3, Episode 15|url=https://www.televisionofyore.com/recaps-of-sex-and-the-city/sex-and-the-city-season-3-episode-15|date=23 August 2017|access-date=18 January 2021}}

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