- Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you"ve ever experienced. You"re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men"s magazines-not magazines about sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men"s hearts and other body parts: the undraped female form.