Congratulations, Columbia! Never again must you covet from afar Harvard's Matt DiPasquale and his low-budge porn magazine: it's only homegrown smut from now on. Editor-In-Chief Hoang Jessica Tang (C'09) introduces C-spot as "a new erotic review produced by Columbia University students."

C-spot's website looks way classier than some aforementioned attempts at Ivy erotica, but in the same vein as H-bomb or Boston University's boink: original b&w photography, a pleasantly streamlined site, and articles on the origins of the vibrator and YouPorn.com. Plus: poetry!

My nails are chipped; my cuticles,
overgrown; and the paint
worn...

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Apparently a diamond really is forever, because we all tried our hardest (or at least I did) to forget about Matt DiPasquale (Harvard ’09), his flaccid dong, and most of all his porno mag "Diamond," but it just isn’t going away.  The Harvard Voice recently published a series of candid interviews with DiPasquale and his never-actually-topless-vixen Fiona.

It turns out that DiPasquale had originally gazed toward the future of Harvard porn and imagined his baby to be bigger, grander, and…featuring a nekkid Teaching Fellow.

Choice quotes from the interviews, after the jump.

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Having finally torn our eyes from Matt DiPasquale's hirsute body long enough to actually read his magazine (or rather, having finally overcome the intense shame associated with even having the PDF open on our computer screens) we reach a whole new level of embarrassment-by-association. First, the editor is also the sole figure on the cover, a crime of vanity not even Oh So Fresh dared. Second, as fellow Harvardian Harrison Greenbaum notes,

I can only imagine Matt's sale pitch: "All Playboy and Hustler ever give you are pictures of beautiful, naked women. At Diamond, we give the readers what they really want: shameless, half-naked shots of our hairy editor. Diamond: Where vanity meets profanity.

The cover article is ten pages of DiPasquale interviewing himself. This is a technique I used once in my 4th grade diary, and even then I had the wherewithal never to let anyone read it, much less line it with explicit images and seek funding from an Ivy League university based on the quality of this work. And to add insult to injury, DiPasquale's self-interview isn't even good.

After the jump, we break it down. Sneak preview: "my spooge tasted like unripe bananas."

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We know that it’s been scientifically proven (thanks Radar!) that, except for Lena Chen, Harvard students don’t have sex. Ever. Fortunately for us, however, that sense of propriety doesn’t extend to the number one Harvard pastime: starting new and marginally useful publications. We were all a little scared of H-Bomb, which at least tried to be artistic in its display of bookish nerds baring their pasty white flesh. But who could have prepared for Harvard’s newest sex “journalist,” who drops all of the pretense and is just straight-up porn fit for your 13 year old little brother.

Matt DiPasquale (pictured) made some waves last year when he returned from an AVN Adult Industry Expo with the humble dream of creating Diamond, a porn magazine that Harvard could finally be proud of. And then he had the balls to speak about it at a conference on feminism!

Seven months later, the first issue of Diamond is here, and it’s...interesting. (The Crimson on Diamond's launch) It looks like it was designed using only Microsoft Paint and ClipArt, but that’s not the worst part!  The editorial content is mostly a a look ahead at some of Summer 2008’s potential biggest blockbusters (This Dark Knight flick looks like it might be pretty good!) but that’s not the worst part, either!

In spite of sending several creepy emails over open lists looking for “sexy models” to pose for him, it looks like Matt could only find two volunteers for the first issue. One of them is himself. The other is a beautiful young woman. Only one of them gets naked. (Are you worried yet?)

After the jump: some very nauseating, very NSFW pages from the first issue of Diamond. Be forewarned: there is an excessive amount of body hair, and one flaccid dong, billowing in the wind in a public park in Cambridge.

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