“There aren’t any porn magazines for women, because women aren’t really interested in them,” says Diva Pittala, the Italian co-designer of clothing label Pleasure Principle, who, three years ago, launched Dickbreath along with filmmaker Maximilla Lukacs.

Contrary to the Playgirl premise that women are turned on by big, oily, orange men, Dickbreath arouses with artful, poetic erotica. “Women get much more turned on by writing than visuals. Seeing a naked guy is, like, ‘Whatever.’ They want to know who he is, what’s his story.”

Filled with contributions by close friends like Rita Ackermann, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Pia Dehne, and Dash Snow, Dickbreath is a pocket-size scrapbook devoted to the silly, stylish, often sick perversions of the downtown set. In the third annual issue, now on newsstands, there are grainy black & white photos of girls straddling skeletons, Snow’s found Polaroids of someone looking like the she-dude in Silence of the Lambs, childlike drawings that Ackermann did with her daughter featuring a cat doing the tango, and pages of fully-charged prose: To rise with this cloth each time slightly touching perhaps even hurting paining a bit – yes to pain more – to ride more on/in – just by this piece of cloth coming up your ass each time ever so slightly yes…

There’s also plenty of humor: For her part, Pitalla contributed a photo she took of an old lady in Berlin stuffing a large wiener schnitzel into her mouth. “We put in what appealed to us,” says Adrian Cowen, Pittala’s partner in Pleasure Principle, and the magazine’s art director and publisher. “It’s just an art project -- we didn’t set out thinking we’d have Dior advertising by the third issue.” Yet, they have received advertising from Deitch Projects, and sponsorship from Foundation 20 21; and since its inception, Dickbreath has grown from a 10-page stapled ‘zine to a dense paperback with offset printing and a promising new distribution deal. Looks like lots of people want Dickbreath.

Get It:

Dickbreath, $10, available at Printed Matter, St. Marks Bookshop, Seven, and Participant Gallery in New York; Show Pony in L.A, and dickbreathmagazine.com

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