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Defunct XY Will Destroy, Not Sell The Names Of Its Underage Subscribers
And so it’s settled: Rather than include the (mostly underage, possibly closeted) names on its subscriber rolls in a bankruptcy auction, the owner of XY magazine will destroy its mailing list. The move also protects the identities of creepy old guys who subscribed to XY to fulfill their twink boy fetishes.
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Taylor Siluwé · Member · 236 comments
I think the hysteria was all about protecting those “creepy old guys”. I doubt there was a ground-swell of teenagers terrified over protecting their identities. This isn’t 1955. Gay teens are more “out” than in these days.
But that subscriber list must have been very interesting, no doubt.
Aug 18, 2010 at 7:35 pm · @Reply
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QUEERTY: “The move also protects the identities of creepy old guys who subscribed to XY to fulfill their twink boy fetishes.”
… it also protects “old guys” who had a senior moment by thinking that a magazine with “Gay in Iraq” listed on the cover might actually have some meaningful content that one might not expect given the “eye candy” obviously intended to attract readers.
I might have once quickly thumbed through an issue while in “A Different Light”, a gay-oriented bookstore in the Castro with a collection of serious literature but also some more prurient material. You generally have to peek inside the covers to see what it really is. If you don’t have such bookstores in your area so you can actually see what you would be getting in advance, I’d imagine it would easy to subscribe to something you would soon wish you hadn’t.
Don’t blame readers on their mailing list based on their age – unless they renew their subscriptions.