''Boink'' was a magazine of erotica started by Alecia Oleyourryk, a magazine journalism student at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

, and the photographer Christopher Anderson. The magazine was also educational in scope and purpose. The first issue was released in February 2005 and was celebrated with an opening party at the Roxy, a nightclub in the Boston Theater District.

Background

The magazine was available in both a print and online digital versions. ''Boink'' catered to both men and women with articles dealing with sexuality in college life. All models were students from area colleges and of various

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...

s. In 2008, a book based on the magazine was published by

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, titled ''Boink: College Sex by the People Having It''. By 2010, the magazine had ceased publishing new issues, although the book can still be purchased online.

"The reason that I like this magazine is that you can tell they are real college students... not those fake college students you find on the Internet." — Howard Stern (BU alumnus)

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