Juggs is a softcore pornographic magazine for adults published in the United States, specialising in photographs of women with large breasts.
Particularly attractive to breast fetishists, it was described in 1999 as "the magazine of choice for breast men" by Jerry Saltz, art critic for The Village Voice news magazine.
Featured models in Juggs included such famous female erotic models as Traci Lords, Candy Samples,, Norma Stitz, Roberta Pedon, and Tina Small.
The magazine was published by George W. Mavety's publishing company, Mavety Media Group (MMG), which had previously been known for publishing gay pornography magazines in the United States. Juggs was distributed by Larry Flynt Publications. The magazine's readership was mostly blue-collar men in the American South and Midwest.
Dian Hanson, Juggs' editor for 15 years,Joseph W. Slade, "Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide III", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, , p.900 has described the magazine as "the epitome of bad taste... a humorous magazine, a sexual sideshow."
Dian Hanson years From 1986 to 2001, Juggs was helmed by Dian Hanson, who had edited multiple pornographic magazines since 1977. She has said that when she took over Juggs and its sister publication Leg Show:Michele Golden. (8 October 2007). "Dian Hanson" , Index Magazine, 2002. Also at Index Magazine site. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
Hanson began putting in pictorials of women modeled after the Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric fertility symbol with enormous breasts and a massive belly, which she saw as a piece of early pornography for cavemen. She also included the theme of erotic lactation in the magazine's headlines and short stories. Hanson stated the magazine's monthly circulation nearly doubled, from 85,000 at the time she joined as editor to 150,000 by 1996. Hanson said that Juggs was seen as less threatening to women than many other pornographic magazines, who saw its less than perfect models as closer to themselves, and were more willing to submit their photographs there than to any other magazine she worked at in 25 years.
Hanson left Juggs in August 2001, a year after its publisher, George Mavety, died, leaving the company in the hands of people she did not want to work for.Matthew Flamm. (2 June 2002)."A Demimonde in Twilight", The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
Contributors Heather Hooters was a regular columnist from June 1994. The pornographic film actress Candy Samples had a regular column in Juggs from 1986 through August 2007."Candy Samples - Publicity", Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 8 November 2007. Kelly Madison was a regular columnist from June 2002. Cartoonist Bill Ward wrote and illustrated an article a month for the magazine in his later years.
In popular culture The magazine title, a slang term for breasts, has become the perennial punch line of any joke that requires a pornographic magazine.Bob Massey. (27 September 2006)."The Reigning Queen" , Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved 8 November 2007. It is used by leading American media including Time Magazine, CBS News, and The New York Times as the immediately recognizable title of a pornographic magazine, without further explanation needed.William Grimes. (30 January 1992)."A Miniaturist of the Novel Who Finds Phones Erotic", The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2007.Alexis Soloski. (16 January 2007). "The Racist Inside" , Village Voice. Retrieved 8 November 2007."Cybersex Sells Meet The New Online Sex Entrepreneurs", CBS News, 31 March 1999. Retrieved 8 November 2007.Kelly Flynn. (21 October 2000). "Danni's hard drive to adult content success" , CNN. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
After Juggs published a review of artist John Currin's exhibition in 1998,Jessica Berens. (31 August 2003). "We are not a muse", The Observer. Retrieved 8 November 2007. the magazine's approval was still being used to define the artist's work 11 years later.. Mario Naves. (16 July 2007). "Nothin’ Like the Old School" , The New York Observer. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
In an episode of the television show Sex and the City which originally aired in 2000 (season 3 episode 15), Trey MacDougal is caught masturbating with the aid of a copy of Juggs magazine.
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