I get a free subscription to all three and I hardly even look through them anymore, save for ogling at the semi-nude women. If I would have told myself this would happen a few years ago, I would claim insanity and demand that I be institutionalized.
Frankly, they're pretty much all the same magazine with the same rehashed "sex advice" and reviews/articles, and the same women posing for their covers and 5 page layout. So with that said, the way I differentiate the three is by how funny they are. Personally, I LOVED Maxim at the start, but after a while their writing seemed to go downhill and Stuff was by far my favorite. It seemed that Maxim started to copy the brand of off-the-wall humor that Stuff had really started to drench their magazine with, except not nearly as good. Lately, I think FHM has been getting funnier....but if it's just between Stuff and Maxim, I'd definitely have to go with Stuff.
I'm almost sad that actually put so much thought into my ranking of these magazines.
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