Last updated:04/03/2008
Student sex-mag goes hardback

Student-run sex magazine, Boink, has taken the next big step into the publishing world and released a book.

The Boston University based sex-mag recently published Boink: College Sex by the People Having It which contains nonfiction articles and studies as well as fiction and boasts untouched, nude pictures of real university students.

Boink is the newest and most explicit publication in the genre of university sex magazines. The website states, “The words and images represented in Boink are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation. While we understand this may offend some, we firmly believe that sex is a natural and healthy part of college life.”

Since its birth in 2005 it has been a massive success. Boink editor and co-founder Alecia Oleyourryk was first approached about turning the magazine into a book after a publisher heard an interview about Boink with radio DJ Howard Stern.

“It’s kind of like a coffee-table version of the magazine,” said Oleyourryk.

She said producing the book was a different process than usual.

“It was a little bit different than making the magazine,” she said.

“The biggest challenge is getting people to buy it and know that it’s there. It’s a whole different world because we have a lot of people helping us out to do interviews and get the word out.”