E-Mail This Article to a Friend NAKED AMBITION BU’s Boink offers porn for the people BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN

Nine months ago, Harvard planted the seed with H-Bomb, the controversial student-run tit-and-lit mag. College sex proved fertile ground in Boston — surprise, surprise — and this Thursday marks the launch of Boink magazine, the Boston University take on student skin. But Boink is less the offspring of H-Bomb than its competitive (and more rebellious) younger sibling. Unlike H-Bomb, which Harvard sanctioned and funded, Boink got neither funding nor endorsement from BU. (An official statement warned, "The University does not endorse, nor welcome, the prospective publication Boink.") And unlike H-Bomb, Boink isn’t being peddled as literary or artistic. "Call a spade a spade," says 21-year-old founder and editor Alecia Oleyourryk, a BU senior studying magazine journalism, and also one of the models on the cover. "This is porn."

Photographer and Boink co-founder Christopher Anderson approached Oleyourryk after doing some photo work for H-Bomb — including the cover and the centerfold spread, showing the Harvard kids strewn around an Ivy League office — and suggested that they could do better. "I was game," says Oleyourryk. "She’s always game," the 38-year-old Anderson adds. The two met when Oleyourryk, a fiery motor-mouth blonde, modeled for him as a sophomore.

Anderson argues that Harvard’s exclusivity permeates H-Bomb, and that Boink’s themes "are more universal." The writers and models come primarily from BU, but Northeastern, UMass, BC, and even Bennington College are represented. "We’re not so exclusive," says Oleyourryk. "We wanted to include more."

So they did. Boink includes an article on the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV), a review of a medieval-type sex toy, and sexual confessions ranging from virginal to voracious. It’s got pictures, too, and the nudity is full frontal. One girl poses in her BU dorm room. Another, a Suicide Girl (from the punk-porn Web site Suicidegirls.com), wears a giant snake coiled around her. The word ardeo, Latin for "I burn," is scarred above her breasts. There are men in bed with other men, and women kissing women — and black-and-white describes more than some of the photographs. "We want a broad audience," says Anderson. Both he and Oleyourryk acknowledge that guys who pick up the magazine for the cover may balk when they find penis in their porn. "We wanted to keep it real more than anything else," says Anderson. "If you don’t like it, don’t read it."

A related principle is, of course, if you don’t like it, don’t print it. Anderson went to eight different printers, and six turned him down based on content. He even approached Playboy’s printer, but it deals only with runs of more than 100,000; Boink’s first run will be one-10th of that. In the end, he had to leave the United States to get the pages moving: a printer outside Montreal took the job. The United States "is either much more conservative or much more hypocritical," says Anderson. "I don’t know which it is."

The launch party for Boink takes place Thursday, February 17, at the Roxy, 279 Tremont Street, in Boston. Tickets and subscriptions to the magazine are available at www.boinkmagazine.com.