Maxim (Maxim)

Member Name: shyguy

Product:	Maxim
Date:	20/08/00 (54 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheaper on subscription

Disadvantages: Not enough interesting articles

To update this opinion, I only need to add Maxim attracts more mature readers with opmion pages, more oldies (male) and more pictures of babes.

I am in my second year of a Maxim (UK edition) subscription.
Maxim features lots of babes and other typical lads mag items including sportsmen, true crime, reality, gadgets and how to…

plus lots of older men who are apparnelt popular again (eg Status Quo, Richard Whiteley etc) Perhaps older men are buying these magazines as well.

The girls featured have usually been in soaps, tv ads or on MTV as VJs plus one or two others who are big somewhere in the Americas or Australia. However the interviews do not tell you enough basic info about them (eg precise birthplace, age or date of birth etc). There is some interesting information but if you know nothing about them then the obvious things would be nice. For example, I read in the August edition that Kelly Hu (in Martial Law) is Hawaiian but how old is she? GQ does do this much better.

There is plenty of advice on sex and women. Sarah Hedley’s in your face style will be liked by many. I do miss the easier to take in column of Louise Bagshawe. However would you write for Maxim, if you were one of the wealthiest women in Britain? Perhaps that what makes her style so good? Nevertheless Kelly Russell’s article in the September 2000 edition suggests she may be a good writer for Maxim.

September’s issue had a good ARAMIS LAB SERIES FOR MEN freebie voucher.

Finally,
Nipple Count: typically zero (excluding the advertising, which seems to have a higher count)
Competitions: typically a few and occasionally quite a lot.
Pages: over 200

Summary: