The Rise And Fizzle Of The College Sex Mag

October, 2007

In 2004 a brash bunch of Harvard students grabbed headlines by start­ing H Bomb, a col­lege sex magazine. It contained some predictable colle=~ giate stuff: erotic poetry and fiction, some saucy doo­dles and ponderous essays ("Elimidate: Towards a Phenom-enology of Hooking Up"). Yeah, yeah, and it also had nude photographs of Harvard students-by our count, 18 exposed breasts in the first issue alone. The whole enterprise seemed promis­ing and provocative. Hell, we bought an ad. For the...