Swank is a pornographic magazine for heterosexual men published in the United States. It includes hardcore sex, such as the use of sex toys, lesbian sex, and sexual intercourse between men and women.
There are also a series of DVDs and an official website produced under the Swank name.
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History
The Magna Publishing Group bought Swank along with dozens of other pornographic titles, including Stag, in 1993 from Charles "Chip" Goodman, the son of Martin Goodman, founder of Marvel Comics. According to the The New York Times, Stag and Swank "can even draw a line to the same pulp publishing outfit — Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company — that in 1939 started the comic book publisher that eventually became Marvel Comics, and that in the 1950s and 1960s employed future novelists like Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman as writers and editors."[1]
At the time Magna purchased the magazines from Goodman, the company was known as Swank Publications, and was a part of the GCR Publishing Group, which also published non-pornographic magazines, including such titles as New Body and Victorian Accents.[citation needed]
The Magna Publishing Group's website includes the claim that Swank has been established for "well over 65 years." A men's-lifestyle magazine called Swank was founded by Fox Comics founder Victor Fox in the 1940s, and eventually evolved to its modern format. The magazine had breaks in publication of several years during its history.[2]
Popular culture references
In The Simpsons episode "The Principal and the Pauper", in Principal Skinner's seedy hotel room (after he is revealed to be an impostor), Skinner lists his meager possessions ("... Armin's liquor, Armin's copy of Swank, Armin's frozen peas!") and Homer asks to see his copy of Swank.
There is a copy of Swank magazine on Jimmy Stewart's table in his apartment in the 1958 film Vertigo.
In the song "Jen is Bringin' the Drugs/' by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, the narrator sees Jen in Swank.
Publishers
Swank is owned by the Magna Publishing Group, which publishes a number of other adult magazines, including:
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References
- ^ Flamm, Matthew. "A Demimonde in Twilight", The New York Times, June 2, 2002
- ^ Magazine Data File
External links
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