ARCHER MAGAZINE #14 - THE GROWING UP ISSUE

Welcome to Archer Magazine: the GROWING UP issue.

"Growing up isn’t just about popping pimples and trying new things. Growing up is about finding a better world, confronting the realities of life and realising the people in power are incompetent. Growing up is about disappointment, guilt, community, love, and recognising privilege and systematic oppression. Growing up is about creating your space." - Lucy Watson, editor-in-chief

This special edition of Archer Magazine (our biggest yet) features a series of articles on growing and discovering, to help us all find our way, regardless of our age.

This issue includes a BONUS fold-out poster by the genius @Pink_Bits!
Instagram: @pink_bits

"A lot of the extensive growth I’ve experienced can be attributed to the queer community I became part of. It’s a community that doesn’t just accept different types of looks and bodies, but celebrates and loves them. It’s a community that includes many people who aren’t interested in what society tells us is hot, what you should find attractive and who you should be with, because we’ve never fit into those moulds anyway." - Rebecca Shaw

"I start to discover the person I can be when I’m not terrified of saying the wrong thing, of being fundamentally unlikable. I start to remember what it’s like to fly without fear of hitting a window." - Ruby Susan Mountford

"It’s always going to be a never-ending flow of fight for rights, up until the point that we start getting these young people into our governments. It’s changing. It’s just a very slow change." - Taz Clay

"It doesn’t matter who seems to be more of an adult, because it turns out there are all different kinds of adults with all different kinds of paths." - Kirsty Webeck

No 14 

Extra Extra n°14 hovers over many lightening skylines, feeling the metropolis hum. Lisbon based film maker Pedro Costa tells you more on the intimate touch of his protagonist Vitalina Varlela. The eminent philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi awakens desire and pleasure in the age of impotence. Also in the issue, the artist Monster Chetwynd and an exciting new voice in non-fiction, Kevin Breathnach. Singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart candidly speaks on the thrill of sexy messages. Enjoy a graphic novel on living room fantasies and some sweltering book suggestions on travelling.

KINK 32, a magazine by Paco y Manolo
132 pages - Color & B/W- Spanish-English bilingual - Volume I - 2020

The guys: Fran, Claudio, Koky, Lucía, Álex, Alberto, Jesús, Jack, Jon, Álex, Nico, Andrés, Alberto, Samuel, Darvish, Jesús, Koke, Paolo, Tao, Germán, Carlos, Adrien, Thomas, Elliot, Juanma, Víctor, Albert, Vicente & Juan.

The Travel Diaries: "Barcelona, the calm after the cumshot", by Alberto Fuguet.

+ CUADERNO 13 : “Things we do for love”, by Slava Mogutin.
16 pages - B/N - Spanish-English bilingual - 2020

Kink & Cuaderno are presented in an indivisible pack. All this for the same price as always.

The Movie Kama Sutra

69 Sex Positions for Movie Lovers

Little White Lies

Forget high definition or surround sound, this is how to take your enjoyment of film to the next level!

The Movie Kama Sutra offers creative sex positions – including the ‘Potter’s Wheel’ (Ghost), ‘King of the World’ (Titanic) and, for the more sexually experimental, ‘Cable Drop’ (Mission: Impossible) – inspired by the most erotic moments in cinema history.

• Paperback
• 144 pages
• 69 illustrations
• Size: 185 x 135 mm
• Published: 03/09/2018

The First Nations Issue

Guest edited by Bridget Caldwell-Bright and Maddee Clark.

Featuring words by: 
Andrew Farrell 
Indiah Money 
Kai Clancy 
Laniyuk 
Rose Chalks 
SJ Norman 
Timmah Ball 
Tré Turner 
William Cooper

Featuring images by: 
Moorina Bonini 
William Cooper 
Ebony Daniels 
Edwina Green 
Morgan Hickinbotham 
Jacinta Keefe 
Ricardo Martinez-Roa 
Daniel McDonald 
Hailey Harper Moroney 
SJ Norman 
Bodie Strain 
Pierra Van Sparkes 
Toz Withall

KINK 31 a magazine by Paco y Manolo
132 pages - Color & B/W- Spanish-English bilingual - Volume II - 2019

The guys: Anderson, Ralf, David, Carlos, Tom, Derek, Valentín, Ricardo, Frederic, Juan José, Miguel, Joao, Galo, Sergi, Raúl, Pablo, Stefano, José Manuel, Miguel Ángel, Thomas, Jesús, David, Nacho, Albert, Víctor & Woolman Family.

Specials: "Berlin" and "Paris".

+ CUADERNO 12: “I like wanking better than working”, by Carlos Vergara.
16 pages - B/N - Spanish-English bilingual - 2019

Kink & Cuaderno are presented in an indivisible pack. All this for the same price as always.

KINK 30 a magazine by Paco y Manolo
132 pages - Color & B/W- Spanish-English bilingual - Volume I - 2019

The guys: Cachorro, Alejandría, Jesús, Sergio, Sébastien, Paco, Roger, David, Toño, Alfonso, Sergi, Tomasso, Mattia, Sergio, Víctor, Andrés, Adam, Alex, Alberto, Alexis, Anteo, Francesco, Riccardo, Quim, Jose, Luigi & Vanya.

Specials: “Couples”, "Granada" and "Berlin".

+ CUADERNO 11: “I say your name”, by We Are Spastor.
16 pages - B/N - Spanish-English bilingual - 2019

Kink & Cuaderno are presented in an indivisible pack. All this for the same price as always.

A Magazine about Sex, Gender and Identity

Tha Gaze Issue

“There’s nothing empowering about one part of you being visible when the rest of you is targeted, shamed and threatened.” — Jacob Thomas, Archer Magazine #11

Welcome to Archer Magazine issue #11: the GAZE issue.

"The notion of the GAZE goes beyond media. It encompasses how we make sense of our bodies through the way other people see us... It’s the way power expresses itself through imbalances in vision control: surveillance, objectification fetishisation, gaslighting, abuse. It’s the way a systemic problem can be minimised when those with influence sweep it under the rug." — Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief, Archer Magazine #11

Behind Closed Doors

Sex Education Transformed

Natalie Fiennes

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselves.

Fear-mongering, moral panic and outdated attitudes prevail, but if #MeToo has taught us anything, it's how dangerous it is to keep conversations about sex hidden from view. Behind Closed Doors invests in a radical, inclusive and honest sex education, taking us beyond learning about the 'birds and the bees', to identifying inequality that stands in the way of sexual freedom. 

From contraceptives to virginity, consent to pornography, transphobia to sexual abuse, the book shows how our desires are influenced by powerful political processes that can be transformed.

This magnificent book is the new, expanded, complete edition of Nourmand and Marsh’s cult bestseller, with text by renowned writer Peter Doggett. The 1960s and ’70s were the Golden Age of the X-rated movie. For the first time, these films were shown in mainstream cinemas to a fashionable, young crowd. The “porno chic” movement around films like Deep Throat (1972), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Debbie Does Dallas (1978) gave skin flicks an air of credibility that had never existed before. Johnny Carson and Bob Hope talked about Deep Throat on TV, and respected artists became involved in promotional campaigns for adult films.

Of all film genres, the X-rated movie is possibly the one that lends itself best to the use of posters as a promotional medium. Screaming taglines, provocative titles and scantily clad bodies are all elements that can be used to great advantage in poster form. Even though many of the adult movies of the ‘60s and ‘70s have faded into cinematic history, their posters remain an inspiration for graphic designers. And today they are wonderful, joyful period pieces that evoke the temptations and taboos of a bygone age of suspender belts, stockings and eye-popping, gravity-defying brassieres. To quote Steve Frankfurt’s iconic ad campaign for the soft core masterpiece Emmanuelle, “X was never like this.”

Donovan

by Elio

A gay magazine based on homo erotic images, draws and graphic design from the 1950's to 1980’s.

Donovan is also a contemporary review of that era that has the following national and international artists: Roberta Marrero, Alberto De Las Heras, Daniel Riera, FelixD'Eon, Paco and Manolo, Leo Adef, Eli del Oro, Neil, Randomagus, Christian Oita, Aaron Moth, Aaron Smith, Bruce LaBruce, Luis Venegas, Elio Colen, DavidRosetzky & Joseladychampange archive. With the collaboration of Spastor and the support of Palomo Spain.

EY! POSTER BOY

Each new issue will feature one boy photographed by a renowned artist. 

The first issue is shot by cult artist / filmmaker GUS VAN SANT and starring adult films actor SEAN FORD. 

Limited edition publication, only 500 copies on sale worldwide. 

24 posters printed in 200 milligrams high quality matte coated paper. High quality reproductions.

The posters are two sizes: 25 x 35 cm (9,8 x 13,7 inches) and 50 x 35 cm (19,6 x 13,7 inches).

The posters are printed both sides, so when putting them together it results a huge 100 x 200 cm (39,3 x 78,6 inches)

The posters are sealed inside a transparent protective folder. 

The whole publication -with folder- is a big format, 28 x 37 cm (11 x 14,5 inches) 

Welcome to Archer Magazine #12: the PLAY issue.

Featuring work by author activist Nevo Zisin, transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey, feminist essayist Elizabeth Flux and indigenous editor Bridget Caldwell, the PLAY issue tackles topics including sex toys, swinging, Mormonism, lingerie, sex work, Aboriginal queer motherhood and being LGBTIQA+ in sport and the world of gaming.

This issue sees us go Au Naturel - uncovering a theme that has had shifting boundaries and conflicting definitions. Our Icon William Robinson was a man who sought to imagine a new, more ‘natural’ style of gardening. Jo Metson Scott photographs his legacy at Gravetye with words by Richard Bisgrove. Jonny Bruce takes us on a journey to three subversive gardens that liberated his thinking of what a garden could be. We revisit Howards Sooley’s photographs of Derek Jarman and Dungeness and he shares memories of this friend Mourned by the Wind.

Concepts of beauty are bought under the spotlight with Against Nature by Bethan Cole, photographed by Drew Vickers, and A Vision of Beauty by Sarah Jane Downing. We also take a look at The Bush with artist Ruth van Beek and explore the idea of being naked in At One with Nature. The vegetable gardens of chef Alain Passard are documented over a year by Alexandre Guirkinger - with an interview by Paul Henry-Bizon and we explore the combination of Food and Flowers with Simone Gooch, photographed by Joaquin Laguinge.

Naturally we consider gender and sexuality, so often defined by people on behalf of others. Here Pleasure Garden commissioned artist Linder Sterling to explore film stills from the old porn studio at Flamingo Estate in Los Angeles and we talk to the designer Erdem Moralıoğlu about fashion and self-expression.