Juggs is a softcore pornography adult magazine published in the United States that specializes in photographs of women with large breasts.

It has been described as "the magazine of choice for breast men" by Jerry Saltz, art critic for The Village Voice news magazine.

Models featured included Norma Stitz, Traci Lords, Candy Samples, The magazine's readership was mostly blue-collar men in the American South and Midwest.

Dian Hanson, the magazine's editor for 15 years, described it as "the epitome of bad taste... a humorous magazine, a sexual sideshow."

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Hanson began putting in pictorials of women modeled after the Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric fertility symbol with enormous breasts and a massive belly, which she saw as a piece of early pornography for cavemen. Hanson stated the magazine's monthly circulation nearly doubled, from 85,000 at the time she joined as editor to 150,000 by 1996.

Contributors

Heather Hooters was a regular columnist from June 1994. The pornographic film actress Candy Samples had a regular column in Juggs from 1986 through August 2007. Kelly Madison was a regular columnist from June 2002. Cartoonist Bill Ward wrote and illustrated an article a month for the magazine in his later years.

The magazine title, a slang term for breasts, has become the perennial punch line of any joke that requires a pornographic magazine. It is used by leading American media including Time Magazine, CBS News, and The New York Times as the immediately recognizable title of a pornographic magazine, without further explanation needed.

After Juggs published a review of artist John Currin's exhibition in 1998, the magazine's approval was still being used to define the artist's work 11 years later.

In an episode of the television show Sex and the City which originally aired in 2000 (season 3 episode 15), Trey MacDougal is caught masturbating with the aid of a copy of Juggs magazine.

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