| Re: Magazine Cover Artwork
A survey of magazines oriented to men and to women will quickly let you in on the fact that both men and women respond to scantily clad women on covers. Sometimes I think Cosmopolitan has sexier nudes than Playboy (and I won't even mention Seventeen, so please forget that I didn't mention it)
It's a quirk in the human esthetic, but everybody likes naked women (perhaps because they are beautiful? Just a shot in the dark) and men are less popular. Both men's and women's mags will show pictures of nude or partially nude women in the same shot, or touching each other, by the way. Only magazines for gay men will show naked men touching each other...and then only in fairly hard core mags.
Go figure.
Given that, the decision to go with Warrior Maid over Abs Boy is a quick one. And...and I'm drawing on my own publishing/editing experience here...maybe it has something to do not so much with atraction plans as the submissions they get? |