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Campus sex magazines proliferate.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)

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At Boston University MA, senior Alecia Oleyourryk is starting her own sex magazine. "We want to turn people on, and we're not afraid to call it pornography," she said. The first issue of Boink will hit stands in January if they can raise the money. "We're going to be straightforward and honest," she said. "And it's going to be real sex."

Across town, Harvard University students recently published their own sex magazine called H Bomb. The magazine is filled with naked coeds, sexually explicit stories and a full-page ad for Playboy. But the magazine's editors assure "it's not porn, that's for sure."

Labels aside, sex magazines are turning people on (and off) on campuses across the country. At the University of Washington, a creative writing major recently started a journal of collegiate erotica. According to Penitalia's editor-in-chief, its goal is to turn ...

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