When we first discovered Diamond's website, we fell in love with the upbeat attitude the founder/editor-in-chief, Matt Di Pasquale, takes towards sex and sexual expression. He writes, "To repress or limit your sexual desires, keeping them to yourself, is to hold back a natural part of your being... So, by restricting the flow of one type of emotion, you naturally condition yourself to prevent the flow of other kinds of emotions like happiness, love, sadness, and joy."

But when Diamond's pilot issue came out, it was less about sex than it was about sneakers. The only skin to be seen belonged to the founder, and he wasn't exactly working it. In his ten-page spread, he flaunted both his penis and his high school AP scores (guess which impressed us most).

But with their first official issue, Diamond's managed to release official naked pictures of students from around the country. The articles—penned by students at Harvard, Barnard, Princeton, Yale, and other prestigious locations—are more sex-centric than before, and feel earnest and straightforward. So is it better? No.

Boston University, Cambridge, Columbia, and even Harvard have already jumped on this bandwagon, sometimes even giving the goods up for free. Now, we're not saying we're tired of college sex magazines (it's real, legal nudity and naughty talk), and we are happy to the models get paid a decent amount for their time, and we do respect Diamond's to branch out to other universities. But asking us to pay $9.99 for a digital issue (or $29.99 for a print copy) is just silly. Trust us: we downloaded the free sample version. The sample should be enticing, and it wasn't.

At the end of the day, Diamond's just another college sex magazine in a sea of college sex magazines—more a piece of a hay in a haystack than a, ahem, diamond in the rough. Publications like Boink and H-Bomb understand that when readers approach an Ivy League-generated nudie mag, they expect a certain bit of self-conscious tomfoolery. Dormitory antics, suggestive sororities, TAs with T&A, and nerdy babes wearing nothing but mortarboard caps are all things we hoped to find in Diamond, and we were disappointed by their absence. We genuinely like the kids and what they're trying to do. Here's hoping the next issue has a little more sparkle.

· Grab the free sample issue at Diamond Magazine (diamond-mag.com)
· Harvard Alum Launches Ivy League Porn Mag (business.avn.com)

New research from the Ivy League medical college has shown that having a fat ass and hips can actually protect women from certain diseases. Fat-bottom girls have a lower risk of Type II Diabetes and high blood pressure, but the pear-shape here is key. Women who carry, proportionally, most of their fat in their midsections are more likely to develop diabetes and heart disease. Scientists suspect that these may be two different kinds of fat, and further research is needed.

In the meantime, we will follow the advice of Doctor Mix-a-Lot and "shake that healthy butt."

Via The Daily News. (nydailynews.com)

Photo courtesy of Big Butt Hunt - Alyssa Dior.

· Alyson Hannigan reminds why used to watch Buff ... uh, what was the name of that show she was in again? (drunkenstepfather.com)

· Playboy's Miss December 2006 Kia Drayton gets busted for cocaine trafficking. We'd expect that from Miss High Times, maybe, but never a Playmate. (playboy.com + thesmokinggun.com)

· Harvard's sex magazine H Bomb loses its official student group status due to an apparent lack of interest. We could say we saw that coming a long time ago, but why kick them when they're already down? (thecrimson.com, via Gawker)

· All the items buried in a time capsule at the University of Washington are intact 50 years later ... including the porn someone slipped during the 1980s. How about that? (seattlepi.nwsource.com)

· Even in Russian, Carmen Electra finds a way to look hot. (hollywoodtuna.com)

· How is a girl supposed to feel when she finds her boyfriend's porn stash? Especially when she's a punk chick and he's reading Nuts and Zoo? (dollymix.tv)

· A Swedish magazine gets in trouble for making fun of a woman's boobs. You just shouldn't go there. (thelocal.se)

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