We Know It When We See It – This Is Art

Forever
fated to play the poor step-sister, Boston Univeristy is prepared to
go to any length to get attention and exposure. (see Membrum
Virile Envy) BU’s new porn mag, "boink" is ready to hit the
newsstands.
Except that so far no newsstands are willing to carry it.  In the
interest of full exposure, the Dowbrigade vows to track down a copy. Supposedly, they hit the street tonight.

Boston University’s answer to Harvard’s titillating periodical, H Bomb,
is about to go public, complete with full frontals and sex toy reviews.

The concept isn’t new — students at Vassar have been publishing
Squirm, an erotica magazine, for five years now — and neither is the mission.
Like H Bomb, Boink’s creators say the point of the magazine is to provoke
discussion on a touchy subject in an open and healthy way.

It’s how they go about it where things start to change.

"We started out with the same goal but did different things," said
Alecia Oleyourryk, a senior journalism major at BU and Boink’s co-creator. "The
biggest difference between Boink and H Bomb is that we think a magazine
can be artistic and porn."

Oleyourryk has no pretenses about Boink’s portrayal of bodies. "It’s
meant to arouse and excite," she said. "But that’s not to say
it’s not artistic."

"Boink is different from Playboy and Penthouse because it has college
credibility — you’ll see the models in class, but without lighting and
everything — and they’ll look normal," she said. "Because
they are real people, there’s more grit to it.

article
from Boston Globe

BOINK UPDATE: As of 8:45 pm tonight (after the Berkman Thursday Meeting) Boink was not available at Out-of-Town Newstand or Nini’s Corner in Harvard Square. However, inevitably, Boing has A WEB SITE –
and A BLOG!