The last video from Jacques had us hurting for some summer sun and ice cream; those are pretty standard desires. Now all we want to do is lock ourselves up in a quiet hotel with this girl, only leaving to hit the hotel bar or buy more leopard print items. Oh, Jacques... The things you do to us.

· JAMIE, by Jacques (jacquesmag.blogspot.com)

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)

When we last the discussed the birth of Jacques, we knew exciting things were going to come from America's newest luxury erotic mag, but we had no idea it'd be like this. We don't know which we want more: the girl, the ice cream, or the ability to be half-naked outdoors.

· JACQUES MAGAZINE BLOG (jacquesmagazine.blogspot.com)

Some might consider it foolish to launch a magazine in this economy, when print media seems to be in its dying days; but the staff of Jacques is undeterred by such petty concerns. They've got a higher purpose, after all (they even have a mission statement!). What little we've seen of their work—which we're told is shot on film, and never airbrushed or retouched—seems promising. We can only hope they manage to buck current trends and come out on top.

· Jacques Magazine (jacquesmag.com, more pictures @ animalnewyork.com)

Of course, given that the last photo of Carla sold for around $100,000, we don't expect that this one will be cheap. Don't have six figures to drop on a topless photo? We recommend firing up the printer and hanging a framed copy of this post on your wall. We're sure no one will know the difference.

· Topless Carla snap for sale (thesun.co.uk)

Filthy Gorgeous Things, which just launched this week, is "online magazine about sex for artists, thinkers, sensualists, and fuckers." Theme issues are released monthly; the premiere issue, Voyeur, is currently up and free to browse (future issues will be available by subscription only). In addition to its thoughtful essays and articles, the magazine features some gorgeous pictorials by some very talented photographers (Chip Willis and Noah Kalina both contributed to the first issue).

Like the sound of the site, but feeling a little subscription shy? The FGT team offers free access to The Daily Fix, a regularly updated sampler of some of the site's content (you know, so you can try before you buy).

· Filthy Gorgeous Things (filthygorgeousthings.com)
· The Daily Fix (filthygorgeousfix.com)
· Photo by Noah Kalina (noahkalina.com)

Well, at least if you're in Great Britain, where Channel 4 will be broadcasting "Life Class: Today's Nude," a five part series that allows the home viewer to sit in (and participate in) a life drawing class—and yes, it's complete with full frontal nudity.

Sadly, the program is causing some controversy, as some are shocked by the thought of nudity—even of the artistic, educational persuasion—appearing on the telly before 9pm. Well, if the show happens to get canceled before July, there's always Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School.

· Channel 4 nudes: Life drawing series will show full frontal nudity before 6pm (dailymail.co.uk)
· Thumbnail star: Julia (teendreams.com)

· Surreal Obscenties (manuel-laval.de, via indienudes.com)

Which is why Katrin Trautner's photos are rather exciting: doing away with the taut, tight bodies of youth, Trautner photographs the elderly in various stages of undress (and then some). We, for one, are glad to know there's a sex life after the age of MILF.

· Katrin Trautner (guteaussichten.org, via indienudes.com)

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School offered a tribute to the original alt model, with the equally inspirational Darenzia donning some Bettie-inspired outfits for an afternoon of art modeling. Though it's not quite the same as being in the presence of the actual Bettie Page, well, we're pretty sure it's close.

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· Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School (drsketchy.com)

· Photo by symbiosis (altphotos.com, via afuckday.blogspot.com)