Contact magazine - Definition and Overview

A contact magazine is a magazine that publishes small ads for those advertising for sexual liaisons, including swinging and prostitution, as well as the services of professional dominants. Advertisements are often accompanied with crudely photographed nude or semi-clothed pictures, sometimes with faces or eyes equally crudely blacked out to disguise identity.

Contact magazines typically have limited circulations, and are sold from adult bookstores and sex shops. The contact magazine operator may run some ads with actual telephone numbers, but most will only have a box number address for which the magazine operator runs a mail forwarding service.

There have been reports that details of ads in some contact magazines may be misleading, or they may not actually correspond to real advertisers at all.