In Bed with Boink Magazine
BU students and local photographers have put together a pornography magazine for a new generation - now they will found out if sex really does sell.
Anita Davis
Issue date: 2/25/05 Section: Business
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Chris Anderson knows that it takes a lot of effort to create a porn magazine.
"I would say that overall it takes a lot of effort to create any magazine," he said. "I don't know if a porn magazine is more so, but it takes a lot ... It's challenging."
Anderson is a photographer, manager and co-founder of the hot-off-the-presses Boink, a student-run sex magazine at BU that has gained renown across the globe.
"It's been about five months of constant work," Anderson continued. "It's been fun, but it's also been a lot of work. It's not the type of thing you undertake lightly ... there's a lot of challenges but it's part of the process."
Boink has been the topic of conversation on the Boston University campus for months. "The college guide to carnal knowledge" has left the university administration blushing and denying any association with the publication.
Students are marveling over the hidden corners of Morse Auditorium as the media frenzy continues from Boston's Back Bay to Germany.
But behind the 96 pages of full frontals, sex columns, toy reviews and sexual banter is a team of 25 writers and four photographers who worked round the clock, sometimes more than 40 hours a week, leading up to Boink's launch party on Feb. 17, which Anderson said cost $15,000 an hour.
Now, a week after Boink's release, Anderson said he is pleased at the way the magazine has been selling.
"We had no idea [how Boink would sell] to be perfectly honest," he said. "We of course had high hopes. We're definitely happy with the way that it is."
The Naked Truth
Anderson's co-founder Alecia Oleyourryk, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, first schemed the idea of a BU pornography magazine before the fall semester of 2004.
"Alecia and I first started talking about this over the summer after she got back from her semester in Australia," said Anderson, who is a 38-year-old professional photographer. "We really started talking in mid-September.
"I would say that overall it takes a lot of effort to create any magazine," he said. "I don't know if a porn magazine is more so, but it takes a lot ... It's challenging."
Anderson is a photographer, manager and co-founder of the hot-off-the-presses Boink, a student-run sex magazine at BU that has gained renown across the globe.
"It's been about five months of constant work," Anderson continued. "It's been fun, but it's also been a lot of work. It's not the type of thing you undertake lightly ... there's a lot of challenges but it's part of the process."
Boink has been the topic of conversation on the Boston University campus for months. "The college guide to carnal knowledge" has left the university administration blushing and denying any association with the publication.
Students are marveling over the hidden corners of Morse Auditorium as the media frenzy continues from Boston's Back Bay to Germany.
But behind the 96 pages of full frontals, sex columns, toy reviews and sexual banter is a team of 25 writers and four photographers who worked round the clock, sometimes more than 40 hours a week, leading up to Boink's launch party on Feb. 17, which Anderson said cost $15,000 an hour.
Now, a week after Boink's release, Anderson said he is pleased at the way the magazine has been selling.
"We had no idea [how Boink would sell] to be perfectly honest," he said. "We of course had high hopes. We're definitely happy with the way that it is."
The Naked Truth
Anderson's co-founder Alecia Oleyourryk, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, first schemed the idea of a BU pornography magazine before the fall semester of 2004.
"Alecia and I first started talking about this over the summer after she got back from her semester in Australia," said Anderson, who is a 38-year-old professional photographer. "We really started talking in mid-September.
