FHM/Stuff/Maxim
 

I've been getting FHM for a couple of years now but I don't like their new format. In the past two days, I got offers for Maxim and Stuff but haven't had a chance to really check out their entire magazine. Can anyone who gets one or both of these magazines tell me what they think of them? If you have something better, you can mention that also. (You can leave out Playboy...I already get that).

Every now and then I'll pick up a copy of Maxim and I always find something entertaining in there (more than just the semi-nude women too). There's a bit called Stupid Fun that cracks me up. I'm not sure that helps you but I've enjoyed Maxim each time I've picked one up.

They're amusing magazines, though I'd never pay for one.

I've got free 6 year subscriptions to all 3 plus a few others.

They give free subscriptions to build their reader base so they can charge companies more for ads.

They're out there if you look hard enough.

Only two people who are members of TFP get these magazines? I find that very improbable. Help me out here people!!! :thumbsup:

I've flipped through a couple of them while waiting for a haircut, but they all seem misogynistic and sophomoric. Perhaps they've improved, but I doubt it.

I will often pick up a copy of Maxim or GQ before I board the plane, if an article on the cover peaks my interest. There's very little difference between Maxim/FHM/Stuff and Cosmo or Glamour. It's average, at best, writing, on a somewhat interesting topic.

It's reading to be entertained, and not to have your mind expanded, which there is absolutely nothing wrong with. GQ tends to have better guest writers, and they seem to be less about using sex to sell their magazine, and relying on their readers to have the ability to form a complete thought.

Men's Health usually has a lot of interesting, articles in it that will hold my attention for a while.

Those magazines are very interesting, as a female, to read, because I honestly thought it was only the women's magazines that told us we weren't ever good enough, that we had to be thinner, look younger, be more beautiful, have more sex to be taken seriously as a person. Apparently the men's magazines are starting to tell you fellas the same thing.

I'm like maleficent, I love reading these magazines. They're the male answer to Cosmo.

That said... the Czech version of Maxim has nudity. I think it was mostly breasts though.

Can't remember who said it but it's accurate in my book...those mags are for guys who can't handle porn.

They are a waste of space in my book. They try to do all the cool guys stuff in one mag and it just doesn't work. I might pay more but if I want car news I'll pick up Car and Driver,if I want tech news I'll pick up Wired, if I want sports news I'll get ESPN the magazine or SI if I want to ogle girls Hustler it is! It might cost more but hey at least it's worth it rather than getting cheap unworthy snippets of info.

I would say that the women in Maxim are pretty low on the scale of why I pickup the magazine. It is a snapshot of popular culture with a little of everything. These are not magazines I can't wait to get or strive to read cover to cover, I throw them in my bathroom drawer and by the end of the month I have finished browsing it on the can.

i don't really enjoy the three magazines too much. seems like stuff has more pictures of females. i have no idea which mag has the best content of the three.

GQ is okay though, pretty good sometimes. just subscribed to men's health as "guy manning."

get yer free subs here
http://bensbargains.net/cat_freebies.shtml

I don't care too much for these mags. Nothing but half nude women in them. Too much of a tease for me.

lots of a tease, i get them for free, but would NEVER pay for them. I did buy the first "Stuff" magazine when it hit bookstores, but only bc i had never seen it before.

I also think they are written by the same people as i often see a LOT of cross articles..

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.

I've got free subs to FHM and Stuff, and If I was forced to pick one of the two, I would probably pick Stuff. It has a few less advertisements (about 70% as opposed to FHM's about 85%), and Stuff seems to take themselves a little less seriously (if that's possible). But as others have said, overall they are very similar and if you don't like FHM, you probably won't like Stuff or Maxim, since both barely pass for reading fodder while depositing fodder, if you know what I mean. ;)

I usually buy FHM or Maxim when travelling. Lotsa good fun in there, and a nice break from Newsweek and papers (that are too big for economy seats anyway). Don't like the buy-expensive-crap-to-look-cool articles though, nor the relationship/sex articles.

The timing couldn't be better. I've bought hubby subscriptions to Playboy in the past and I got him the SI edition with Anna a few months ago. He knows I know he looks at mags and porn and that I'm fine about it. Tonight we were watching "That 70's Show" and I commented how Laura Prepon's "Donna" always seems to be at least 1/3 or more covered up in outfits while "Jackie" (couldn't tell you her real name) prances about in string bikinis.

I questioned whether or not it was the networks doing, in that they don't think she fits the typical hollywood "waif" image, or herself thinking she doesn't fit that ideal and is too insecure to show her body. Although I'm not Bi, I can totally appreciate the female body and I think Laura's is the ideal. Not too thin or overweight, just perfect with curves and a little meat on her bones. Hubby then tells me that she (Prepon) is not at all shy about her body because someone at work brought in a copy of FHM, in which she has posed. I was flabbergasted, why does "Donna" only show a little bit of flesh then as opposed to "Jackie" who is supposidly a slut? I'd heard of Playboy, Hussler, etc., but not FHM. Either hubby doesn't know or has been too embarressed to tell me what the mag is. I don't really care either way, I am mostly posting because we happened to be talking about it tonight and I thought it was too coincedental that I'd read this post tonight. Carry on...

Ali

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Actually, I think the magazine Laura posed in was Maxim. It's a coincidence that you mentioned that because I was just cleaning out my room and put away stacks of old magazines and the Maxim with her on the cover was one of them that caught my eye.


FHM is exactly like Stuff and Maxim and are basically just the male counterpart to Cosmo or Vogue (as a poster mentioned above). None of them are pornographic or show nudity, so they're definitely not Hustler or Playboy. Though, some argue that they're softcore porn...but if these magazines are softcore porn, then so is a lot of primetime programming on basically any TV station. However, there are UK editions of FHM and Maxim (I don't know about Stuff) that do show some nudity.


How do I know all these things? Countless hours of a misspent (and pretty pathetic) youth.

i kinda feel bad when i read those magazines, like i should be reading something educational or something, such as national geographic.

How do you get them for free?

Just have to find the websites with the offers. If you read tech-centric message boards you're bound to come across links to them. I also got 4 years of Maxim and Stuff and I'd agree that while I usually read them each month and they're somewhat entertaining, I wouldn't pay for them. They're good to read during commercials of that other ad-laden medium, television. (Although the more channels you have the better it is.) They both definitely have similar content as well so you're getting even less for your money if you subscribe to both.

Try these, they were posted to another board I read last week (standard disclaimer here):
http://www.twwservices.com/maxim.php
http://www.twwservices.com/stuff.php
http://www.hotimportnights.com/fhmgift/

I've suscribed to Maxim for several years. It's a great magazine, lots of interesting tidbits of information. I say tidbits because all the stories, articles etc. are short and to the point. Perfect for reading on the shitter HAHA. My wife also enjoys looking at through it, although she won't admit it haha.

Reading FHM is like volunteering for a lobotomy.

I've had a subscription to Maxim ever since the US version hit the stands.. Not sure when my subscription runs out but i'll renew it. Always something interesting in there even though as of late they're about half the size they used to be :(

I don't care for FHM/Stuff/Maxim type of magazines. Sure, they have some interestings articles sometimes, but overall I find them to be annoying.

I prefer GQ, Details, and Esquire if I'm going to read a magazine geared towards men.

I wouldn't pay for these either. But get them for free, hell yeah. Thanks man.

i get all three, and like it was said before you can get the mags for free, no need to pay for them. BUt they are all the same, i havnt noticed a change and i have been getting them for about 4 years now. They are great the read while you are on the can, or if you have nothing else to do.

I usually buy Maxim and Stuff. If I only have money for one Maxim gets my vote.