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Are porn mags for girls sexy?

The Guardian had a look at and reviews the latest porn mag 'for girls.' Although the mag is flying off the shelves, the journalists were not too entranced by what they found ibehind its cover.

The new German "porn for girls" paper is called Glück and stars pale, skinny, sometimes hairy, indie boys. Photographed in the comfort of their own "bohemian" (read: dirty) bedsits, reveling in their averageness: flaunting their flabby bodies and receding hairlines with aplomb. And the position of their hands is such that, whatever their appearance, your attention is drawn to just one thing (and it is not their come hither eyes).

According to a survey, 1.4 million women in the UK downloaded pornographic images from the internet last year. It is therefore not surprising that this indie niche has sprung up. The urban, educated young women with an eye for boy-bod are US magazine Sweet Action and the SuicideBoys section of SuicideGirls website, both of which feature young, naked hipster boys as well.

As Beatriz Jahr Concejo, of anti-porn campaigning group Object, points out, the poses in Glück diverge from those that female models strike in traditional porn, the men remaining self-possessed and powerful. While this might make the women who enjoy this porn more comfortable - wiping out any sense that the pictures are exploitative - it does nothing to combat the damaging power relationships of traditional pornography. "[These pictures] reinforce, rather than challenge or subvert, existing power relations between men and women," says Jahr Concejo, by portraying "men as powerful - not submissive".

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