A huge thank you to the melon farmers community for supporting Filament's erection campaign. We succeeded in selling the 328 copies needed to afford to change our printers, with
about three days to spare! We've just printed our second issue and it's out now , complete with, among other pictorials and articles, five pages of an erect man: the
first such spread in a UK women's magazine. The UK publishing industry double-standard: that hardcore pornography only comprises 'erections, penetrations and ejaculations' has
never had a legal basis, and it's easy to see which audiences it's designed to cater to. This, I think, is the most insidious type of censorship, one we cannot challenge it through the means of government and therefore it's all the more important that
you helped us trample all over it. Our next challenge tackles similar issues: getting Filament into shops. Many people believe that decisions about what gets on shelves are
based on facts about markets, and we thought so too, so we bowled up with our facts only to find that what holds sway with distributors is their own personal views about what sells, highly based on very dubious gender stereotypes: yet another form
of censorship. However, we will simply not be told that there is not a market for Filament, not when we receive heartfelt emails at least daily from readers thanking us for having the courage to make a hot and brainy magazine for women. We'll keep
chipping away on their behalf, and of course we keep making Filament available worldwide through our website. Thanks again for your amazing
support. Don't forget to get your history-making issue ! Best wishes Suraya Sidhu Singh Editor Filament
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