[Ads-l] boylie mag(azine): not in HDAS?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Never heard of it.

JL

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: boylie mag(azine): not in HDAS?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Indeed, not in HDAS.  And a new one on me.    Playgirl Magazine I =
> remember (complete with "hairy chests and quiescent penises"), but =
> boylies and eponymous mags, no. =20
>
> LH
>
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >=20
> > The Alternative: An American Spectator, Volume 9 - Page 14
> > Saturday Evening Club, 1975
> > =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttps-3A__books.google.com_bo=
> oks-3Fid-3Dg9wRAQAAMAAJ&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu=
> 39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DgASHy-vlqe2rEb-03cbG90Kb2RvP3xQISm=
> QRW6UpW_U&s=3DyyV7cptwEmR_x-BWZvD7atoKBOqjaZ8trhT5V_w-r_k&e=3D  ;
> > =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttps-3A__books.google.com_bo=
> oks-3Fid-3Dy2lXAAAAYAAJ&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu=
> 39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DgASHy-vlqe2rEb-03cbG90Kb2RvP3xQISm=
> QRW6UpW_U&s=3Dpwh07usugpPM8dA5nPR1J4rVZ3REUEXrDASJXpojSZw&e=3D=20
> > 1975 - =E2=80=8ESnippet view
> > ... even a club of sorts (albeit no clubhouse): the "Penthouse/ Viva
> > Leisure Club." (Viva is a spinoff from Penthouse; it is a _"boylie"
> > magazine_, breasts and vulvae being replaced by hairy chests and =
> quiescent
> > penises. It is, incredibly, more banal than its sire.)
> >=20
> >=20
> > This is, just as incredibly, the earliest cite that I can find of a =
> term
> > that's been around, IME, since 1959, considering how entirely obvious =
> are
> > its use, derivation, and construction. "Boylie Magazines" was the name =
> of
> > the gay section of the Los Angeles dirty-book store that I frequented. =
> I
> > heard "boylie mag" either on TV or in some movie, in the '60's. =
> Further,
> > IME, the boylie mags were the exact equivalents of the girlie mags: =
> the
> > models were young, cute, nicely put-together, but there were no
> > hairy-chested, bear types. Of course, styles may well have changed =
> between
> > 1959 and 1975.
> >=20
> > Youneverknow.
> >=20
> > Note the writers pretentiousness: _vulvae_, but _penises_ instead of
> > _penes_. OTOH, I like the use of "quiescent" instead of the banal =
> "flaccid."
> >=20
> > I checked "boyly mag(azine)," too, and found only "boyly [Johnson, =
> 1818:
> > obsolete. boyish] heretick," from 1732.
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint =
> to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >=20
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - =
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
> org&d=3DAwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
> xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3DgASHy-vlqe2rEb-03cbG90Kb2RvP3xQISmQRW6UpW_U&s=3Da1JDmb=
> egoSp03exeEOAkUwJscYlxJncxPtCDKqiwj7Q&e=3D=20
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org