Word: boink
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bomb could only get more scandalous if it started spawning progeny. And it has. Boston University’s Boink Magazine—or, as it calls itself, “the college guide to carnal knowledge”—released its first issue last month. Its website calls the magazine “a sex-themed publication” that involves “frank discussions about sex and nude pictures of real university students.” Its features “are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation...
...Boink may sound like a slightly raunchier version of our own H Bomb, but Katharina Cieplack-von Baldegg ’06, H Bomb’s editor in chief, insists there is no relation. Unlike H Bomb, a nonprofit organization funded by Harvard grants, Boink charges undergraduates $8 per issue and is unrecognized by its school. While Cieplack-von Baldegg wrote in an e-mail that H Bomb is “a rebellion against both New England Puritanism and the superficial, misogynist, and often pornographic depiction of sex in pop culture,” BU?...
...senior Alecia Oleyorryk, Boink’s publisher, said that H Bomb and Boink, “started off somewhat the same, but ended up kind of different,” and that Boink is the, “pornographic magazine...
...People will buy Boink because it is pornography,” she said. “People buy H Bomb because it’s a smart, fun, multimedia discussion of sex and sexuality by and for students at Harvard that cannot be found anywhere else...
...Word of Boink spread on the BU campus over the past week. But the hype that accompanied H-Bomb’s unveiling hasn’t yet materialized...