List of men's magazines

This is a list of men's magazines from around the world. These

are magazines (periodical print publications) that have been
published primarily for a readership of men.

The list has been split into subcategories according to the target
audience of the magazines. This list includes adult magazines.
Not included here are magazines which may happen to have, or
may be assumed to have, a predominantly male audience - such
as magazines focusing on cars, trains, modelbuilding and
gadgets. The list excludes online publications.

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 Men's Health magazine, published by
Americans or Mexicans. Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania,
was the best-selling men's magazine on
U.S. newsstands in 2006.[1]
Americas
Canada

Sharp Magazine
United States
Classic Style Magazine (defunct)
Complex (defunct)
Details (defunct)
Esquire US
GIANT (defunct)
GQ USA
Hustler
Indy Men's Magazine (defunct)
Maxim
Men's Fitness (defunct)
Men's Health US
Men's Journal
Men's Vogue (defunct)
Muscle & Fitness
New Man (defunct)
Oui (defunct)[2]
 Playboy (1953–2020) (defunct)
Penthouse (1965–present)
Tiger (defunct)

Europe
Belgium

Men Magazine (http://www.MenMagazine.be) (since 1998)

United Kingdom
Buck (defunct)
The Chap
Esquire UK
FHM
Lusso Magazine
Magnate (defunct)
Man About Town
Men's Health UK
Nuts (defunct)
Sorted
Zoo (defunct)
Others

For Men
Vi Menn

Asia
Japan

Men's Non-no
Popeye
Weekly Asahi Geinō
India

Man's World
GQ India
Others

Arrajol
August Man Magazine
GQ Thailand

Oceania
Alpha (defunct)
Chance International (defunct)
 GQ Australia
Men's Health Australia
Robb Report (Australia)

Ethnic men's magazines

African American men's magazines

King (US) (defunct)
Smooth (US)

Latin American men's magazines

Hombre
Open Your Eyes (defunct)

Gay male audience

The Advocate
Attitude
AXM (defunct)
Badi
Bear Magazine
bent
Blue
Boyz
Butt
DNA
fab (defunct)
FourTwoNine
G Magazine (defunct)
G-Men
Gay Times
Genre (defunct)
Hello Mr. (defunct)
Instinct
Männer
MyKali
Next Magazine
Out
Outlooks (defunct)
QX
Siegessäule
Têtu
XY
 Zero (defunct)

Men's lifestyle magazines

Men's lifestyle magazines (lad mags in the UK and specifically men's magazines in North America) were
popular in the 1990 and 2000s, focusing on a mix of "sex, sport, gadgets and grooming tips".[3] From the
early 2000s, sales of these magazines declined very substantially as the internet provided the same content
(and particularly more graphic pornography) for free.

International
FHM
Maxim
Stuff
Zoo Weekly (defunct)

Americas
United States
Blender (defunct)
King
Mob Candy
Open Your Eyes (defunct)
Smooth
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Colombia

Donjuan
SoHo
Others

H Para Hombres (Mexico)

UMM (Canada)
Urbe Bikini (Venezuela)

Europe
UK

Front (defunct)
Gear (defunct)
Loaded
Nuts (defunct)
Zip Magazine (defunct)
Hera Magazine International (defunct)
Scandinavia
 Café (Sweden)
Mann (Norway) (defunct)
Slitz (Sweden) (defunct)
Vi Menn (Norway)
M! (Denmark)
Egorazzi (Finland)

Oceania
People (Australia) (defunct)
The Picture (Australia) (defunct)
Ralph (Australia) (defunct)
M2 Magazine (New Zealand)

See also
List of health and fitness magazines
List of pornographic magazines
List of women's magazines
Men's adventure magazine

Citations
1. Kinetz, Erika (3 September 2006). "Who's the Man? Dave" (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/0
9/03/fashion/03davez.html). The New York Times. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/202
30216231617/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/fashion/03davez.html) from the original
on Feb 16, 2023.
2. Oui (magazine)
3. "Sex doesn't sell as lads mags suffer" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/421023.stm).
BBC News. 1999-08-16. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20211219171136/http://new
s.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/421023.stm) from the original on Dec 19, 2021. Retrieved
2021-12-19.

General and cited references

Benwell, Bethan (2003). Masculinity and men's lifestyle magazines (https://archive.org/detail
s/masculinitymensl0000unse). Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts, US: 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" (http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/
13065/1/2TCPAPER.pdf) (PDF). Discourse and Society. 16 (2): 147–172.
doi:10.1177/0957926505049616 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926505049616).
hdl:1893/13065 (https://hdl.handle.net/1893%2F13065). S2CID 144963267 (https://api.sema
nticscholar.org/CorpusID:144963267).
Benwell, Bethan (2007). "New sexism? Readers' responses to the use of irony in men's
magazines" (http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/13077/1/New%20Sexism.pdf) (PDF).
Journalism Studies. 8 (4): 539–549. doi:10.1080/14616700701411797 (https://doi.org/10.108
 0%2F14616700701411797). hdl:1893/13077 (https://hdl.handle.net/1893%2F13077).
S2CID 18568206 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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 (https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.0022-3840.2001.340
4_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 (https://do
i.org/10.1177%2F1097184X03257438). S2CID 145210684 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/
CorpusID:145210684).
Stibbe, Arran (July 2004). "Health and the social construction of masculinity in "Men's
Health" magazine" (http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/679/1/Health%20and%20the%20social%20cons
truction%20of%20masculinity%20in%20Men%E2%80%99s%20Health%20magazine.pdf)
(PDF). Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441 (https://doi.org/
10.1177%2F1097184X03257441). S2CID 109931551 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/Corp
usID: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 (ht
tps://archive.org/details/makingsenseofmen0000jack). 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" (http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/679/1/Health%20and%20the%20social%20cons
truction%20of%20masculinity%20in%20Men%E2%80%99s%20Health%20magazine.pdf)
(PDF). Men and Masculinities. 7 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1177/1097184X03257441 (https://doi.org/
10.1177%2F1097184X03257441). S2CID 109931551 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/Corp
usID:109931551).

External links
Calcutt, Andrew. "Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman's Magazine to GQ and Barack
Obama (https://archive.today/20121224035346/http://www.maglab.org.uk/changing-the-subj
ect-men-s-magazines)", Maglab (November 2009).

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