I do my thing and I'm used to people disapproving. How would you explain your magazines? A lot of people would say they appeal almost exclusively to paedophiles, which obviously isn’t a good thing. It's quite far away from a discussion about my magazines. Actually, this isn’t a subject that interests me very much. Please don't bring the "P-word" into this. Yeah, they’re all about animated paedophilia. If there's a red line in my publishing, it's that it deals with fantasies and ideals. Even when I did Destroyer, I hardly had any contact with the models directly – only with the photographers. Where do you get the borderline child porn from to illustrate the articles?Ĭhild porn is a legal term, not a view, and none of my publications contain that. Boys are like kittens, it's hard to take your eyes off them. He discovers things, tests limits, helps people, but he also robs, rapes or even murders. The boy is the one who does all the things we learn later in life not to do. I have this philosophy of the boy as the essence of humankind. The men at the printers were quite surprised. Karl Anderson: An idea came to me one evening: ‘What about making a cheesy news tabloid with boy news only?’ I searched for news stories about stuff like “boy murders” and “boy rapes”, added pictures and wrote smashing headlines. The last page of the printed Breaking Boy News. And the pairing of headlines about 14-year-old boys' anuses with pictures of 10-year-olds in skimpy Speedos only seems like it's intending to provoke specific thoughts from a specific group of people. It's not technically child porn, but it is really fucked up. One of the many hugely disturbing websites that greeted me was, which is essentially made up of violent, sexual headlines about young boys, illustrated with pictures of pre-pubescent boys in sexualised poses, half-naked and occasionally not wearing any pants. Obviously that's not something you should type anywhere on the internet, but I forgot about that until I'd hit enter. I also spent quite a bit of time talking about drawing dicks and balls on school tables, which my friend calls "schoolboy penises", so we decided to google that phrase to see what the world had to offer in the way of crude genital art. Readers should always study the law in their jurisdiction before ordering a magazine of this nature.Last week was kinda slow for me, so I spent a lot of time googling stuff, because that's what human beings do now rather than being constructive. Whilst the risk of prosecution for owning a copy of a gay magazine is probably very low, some countries have moved to criminalise clothed images of youth under the age of eighteen. It has received a lot of criticism from the media and child-protection professionals for allegedly "sexualising" children, but Andersson has been quick to defend his publication and gives interviews to argue against his critics.ĭestroyer contained no images of nude boys under 18, and claimed to be legal in all countries where homosexuality was legal. The magazine was printed and officially published in the Czech Republic, but distributed globally through its website,. He has a bachelor of arts degree in language consultancy and lives in Berlin. In 1999 he headed Straight, Sweden's first glossy gay magazine, and he has since then worked for Aftonbladet, Sweden's biggest daily, Slitz, the biggest men's magazine in Scandinavia, and for IDG Sweden. Unlike most gay magazines, it focuses exclusively on boys and younger men, who, says the editor, were once a part of gay culture, but have vanished in recent years.ĭestroyer was the brain child of Karl Andersson, a Swedish magazine professional. 2006) was a Swedish-based gay magazine published by Karl Andersson, containing features, photos, essays, interviews, reviews, columns, culture articles and fiction. Destroyer – Journal of Apollonian Beauty and Dionysian Homosexuality (f.