Article topics range widely, including a piece by Gigi M. Garmendia ’06 titled “Miss CrimsonHookups.com,” a poem titled “Animal” by Tom P. Lowe ’05 and an essay by Natalia H.J. Naish ’04 on “Art vs. Porn.”
The magazine features roughly three dozen photos, and includes ads for Playboy, as well as for Cambridge businesses Hubba-Hubba, Daedalus and Redline, among others. About a dozen of the photos depict nude and topless Harvard students.
This morning, the Rev. Mark D.W. Edington, chaplain to the College and assistant minister in the Memorial Church, plans to criticize the licentious mentality at Harvard and take subtle jabs at H Bomb Magazine.
In an advance copy of his remarks that Edington sent to The Crimson last night, he described sexuality as “amazing stuff,” but cautioned students to steer clear of sexual exploitation.
“For the moment, try to understand, cowboys and cowgirls, that you’re actually worth a lot more than what our sad sexual culture is trying to sell you out for,” he wrote. “No matter how you cut it, crop it, light it, or shade it, whether you publish it, print it, or just pick it up and read it, exploitation is still a denial of anyone’s, and everyone’s, dignity.”
“You don’t have to believe that each of us is made in the image and likeness of a Creator to accept at least that premise. And it will still be true whether the H-Bomb manages to, um, go off, or simply turns out to be more dud than stud,” he concluded.
H Bomb Magazine gave special thanks to many persons and organizations, including “the Porno Fairy” and “The Harvard Lampoon for lowering expectations.”
The Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, door-dropped a parody of H Bomb Magazine across the College on April 12.
Alexis Z. Tumolo ’06 said she had qualms with the cover photo of the real H Bomb Magazine.
“I don’t like how she is pinching his ass on the front. It should be tender like chicken,” she said.
—Staff writer Adam P. Schneider can be reached at aschneid@fas.harvard.edu.