Razzle (magazine)

Infobox Magazine
title = Razzle


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publisher = Paul Raymond
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circulation_year = 12 issues a year
language = English
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firstdate = 1983
country = flag|United Kingdom.
frequency = Monthly

"Razzle" is a British soft porn magazine, founded in 1983, which currently focuses on amateur style pornography, offering cash for any photos of "readers' wives" printed. In the past, however, several notable glamour models were featured, including minor celebrity Joanne Guest. It also includes the traditional "True" stories.

There was an earlier UK men's magazine of the same title that dates from the 1930s to the late 1950s. This was a pocket format title, which featured a colour centre spread by the illustrator George Davies. [Men's Magazines an A-Z, Magforum.com http://www.magforum.com/mens/mensmagazinesatoz10.htm#111]

The name "Razzle" gains a fair bit of mainstream attention, having been mentioned on numerous British comedy programmes, including "Meet Ricky Gervais", "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere", and in an episode of "Absolutely Fabulous" where it is implied that Patsy once posed for the magazine (albeit the earlier version). It is also mentioned on Men Behaving Badly and Bottom. It was also mentioned in Little Britain, where Lou had bought the magazine for Andy. There is even a song that uses the title, by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, entitled "Razzle in my Pocket". However, this is more probably linked to the 1950s version of the magazine (the song was written in the 1970s).

It is also famous for the "Razzle Pile-Up", which features a group of ladies on their fronts, all lined up on top of each other, presenting their bottoms and vulvas to the camera.

Despite the market for softcore pornography decreasing in the UK, presumably due to a combination of the internet, and more extreme material being available, "Razzle" is still successful, having launched some spin off titles including "Razzle Extreme", "The Best of Razzle" and "Razzle Readers Wives".

Razzle is published by Paul Raymond, whose other publications include "Club International", "Escort", "Just Girls", "Mayfair", "Men Only" and "Men's World".

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