Welcome to Issue No. 01 – PLEASURE
Information is sexy, pleasure is your right and Moi is made for you.
Words: Lila Theodoros
FEATURING: Mackenzie Peck: how to make a porn mag; Eau de Ex: the scent of past lovers; The Panty Dropper: a recipe guarantee; Contemporary Hedonism; Ancient Sex Toys; and more. PLEASURE IS: Hot nights out; Advice – ‘what do you need?’; and, Spicy cliterature excerpts.
Moi is our digital magazine – ready for immediate download, no postage fees or long delivery waits. Enjoy 192 beautifully designed pages of pleasure right now. Pleasure in your pocket. Designed to be enjoyed on your favourite device in high resolution glory.From the absolute bottom of my heart, welcome to our world of Pleasure – Moi. Three years in the making. Blood, sweat and tears. Pleasure, experimentation and enquiry. Moi was born of curiosity, pain, rage, love, friendship, conviction and passion. An act of rebellion. A place where we satisfy curiosity with stories of courage, creativity and pleasure.
Editor’s Letter:
From the absolute bottom of my heart, welcome to our world of Pleasure – Moi. Three years in the making. Blood, sweat and tears. Pleasure, experimentation and enquiry. Moi was born of curiosity, pain, rage, love, friendship, conviction and passion. An act of rebellion. A place where we satisfy curiosity with stories of courage, creativity and pleasure.
In these pages we explore the many layered dimensions of pleasure. We do, absolutely, offer content designed to stimulate {wink and then wink wink}, but Moi approaches pleasure with a broader and distinctly women-focused lens, allowing the experience to be so much more expansive.
Beyond physical sensation, we often overlook the wider range of sensory pleasures that can be just as powerful. Accessing our senses – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch – opens us up to a world of multifaceted stimulation and illuminated pleasure possibilities.
Information is sexy, pleasure is your right and Moi is made for you.
Moi was created from the desire to provide a space to rekindle our relationship with what feels good. To actively give ourselves permission to seek out – and experience – what brings us pleasure. To satisfy our inherent curiosity.
I could write an essay about why I personally felt it was so important to make this publication, but you have waited long enough. We are nurturers, care takers, mothers, partners, friends, feminists, professionals. We have given – now it’s your turn to dive in head first with reckless abandon into an ocean of pleasure, feeling the waves of joy, ecstasy, knowledge and community reverberate through you. Moi is the warm up. Moi is the foreplay.
In Issue 01 we land in New York and learn how to make a pornography magazine with Mackenzie Peck, a brilliant creative who reimagined the outdated male-gaze centred format and gave us Math Magazine – a publication advocating for intimacy, inclusivity and creativity. Continuing this theme, we analyse the unexpected, almost subliminal, impact the male-gaze has had on the sex lives of women in The Third Person.
Food is pleasure and The Panty Dropper recipe is a guarantee for success, whatever form of pleasure it is you are seeking.
An epicurean delight aptly leads us into the world of Contemporary Hedonism, where women are invited to reclaim this pleasure philosophy as an act of self-empowerment and embrace pleasure on our own terms.
From the quest for modern hedonistic pleasures, we travel back in time and look at the long, and girthy, history of Ancient Sex Toys, marvelling at the ingenuity and acts of invention in the pursuit of pleasure.
Our photo essays in this issue are brilliantly contrasted experiences of the physical. Silent Heat is a documentation of the anticipation, adrenaline and pleasure of a date. The Weight of Un/Becoming explores the human body’s capacity for suffering, transformation and survival.
And this is just the beginning. Welcome to Moi – a space to explore, enquire and excite. Marvel at the journey, seek out pleasure and get ready to turn it on. We invite you to satisfy curiosity and enjoy.
Lila Theodoros
Publisher & Managing Editor
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