Razzle (magazine)

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Razzle is a British soft porn magazine, founded in 1983, which currently focuses on amateur style pornography, offering cash for any photos of "readers wives" printed. In the past, however, several notable glamour models were featured, including minor celebrity Joanne Guest. It also includes the traditional "True" stories.

Unlike most of its contemporaries, Razzle gains a fair bit of mainstream attention, having been mentioned on numerous British comedy programmes, including Meet Ricky Gervais, and in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous where it is implied that Patsy once posed for the magazine. It is also mentioned on Men Behaving Badly and Bottom. There is even a song about the magazine, by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, entitled "Razzle in my Pocket". It was also mentioned in Little Britain, where Lou had bought the magazine for Andy.

It is also famous for the "Razzle stack", which features a group of ladies on their fronts, all lined up on top of each other, presenting their bottoms (and slightly more) to the camera.

Despite the market for softcore pornography decreasing in the UK, presumably due to a combination of the internet, and more extreme material being available, Razzle is still successful, having launched some spin off titles including "Razzle Extreme", "The Best of Razzle" and "Razzle Readers Wives".

Razzle is published by Paul Raymond, whose other publications include Club International, Escort, Just Girls, Mayfair, Men Only and Men's World.