Diamond Editor: “I asked my TF to pose nude for me!"

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By letting it all hang out, Matt Di Pasquale, a senior in Dunster, has generated more than enough mysterious buzz. In the premiere issue of Diamond Magazine, the Editor-in-Chief bares his soul. And more.

We had the opportunity to interview Di Pasquale about his recent scandalous – and very public – endeavors.

* The Crimson reported that you’re trying to establish yourself as a recognized student group on campus. As such, how do you see your publi cation as different from H-Bomb?
Our goal was to really feature specific models for a part of the magazine and models who we thought were confident and sexy and willing to express themselves. And to pose in sexy poses and stuff...it was more focused on the sexual attraction element of sex – why someone wants to have sex with another person, what an attractive persona looks like and what they think about, to kind a paint a picture of someone who is sexy so that the reader is attracted to them and intrigued in a different way. H Bomb takes nudity and has pictures of naked people it seems like they’re going for a more artistic approach, person’s face not in the picture...we take a more flashy approach like Maxim

We try to find models who are willing to get naked...that’s also a theme behind the name – Diamond – it’s kind of a metaphor, I thought if the name when I was talking with a friend who was talking about having a swingers club and he was like AW COOL and he said you should call it the Diamond Club and it’s also a metaphor or what we stand behind, basically cutting away limitations and expressing your true character...if you have a diamond at first it’s a rough diamond, and once you cut away different parts of it you get a diamond that shines. Cutting away your limitation and letting your inner beauty shine.

* How are you distributing the publication?
It’s online diamond-mag.com, on a blog post with link to PDF. It’s cheaper online and pretty accessible. We didn’t want to spend money to print it if it wasn’t going to be successful.

* How often will you publish new issues?
We don’t have a strict deadline that we’re following but we have articles posted to the site on a rolling basis.

* How did you come to the decision to feature yourself on the cover of the first issue?
I thought I should be on the cover because it made more sense to me... I didn’t really have any goals in achieving anything. I wanted to make a stand – I think I have a good body and I’m proud of the way I look naked.

* Last year, rumors were circulating around campus that you had asked a TF to pose for the magazine. Would you like to comment on that?
Last semester after section one day, while we were leaving class, she told me how she thought the magazine was really cool and expressed interest in it. I asked her if she wanted to be in it. She politely declined. I had to deal with a lot of no’s before finding interested models. It’s like the bible says: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (Matthew 7:7)...I think it would be really cool to have a TF or a professor pose, I think that would be something interesting because everyone has a sexual side to them... I would love to feature a TF or a professor or a tutor or a proctor. Someone like that. Imagine how cool that would be...

* Last year, you sent a recruiting email in which you talked about $50,000 raised to start the magazine - who invested in the project?
In that email I said we had offers – and people offered a lot of money but we weren’t sure whether we wanted to be a student organization or a business, and we knew that if we took the money from investors we couldn’t give them equity or sell the business or give them a return on their investment or anything like that if we got recognized as a student group.

* How has your family responded to the magazine?
My family is really supportive of the magazine and they’re really supportive of me and I’m really lucky about that. I told my mom that I was in the magazine and stuff and I told her I was naked and she was like “well when do I get to see the real thing?” I was surprised because I thought they would freak out. I asked my sister, “You don’t care that I’m naked in there?” And she’s like “No you’re in college.”

* What is the worst sex you’ve ever had?
I love sex, so I don’t know, I mean, I really enjoy most sex I have I can’t think of any time that it was really bad, but I like it. I like all kinds of sex. I’m single but I think I’d be interested in a girlfriend. I’d like a girl who is into girls too, a girl I could hang out with and pick up girls with. That would be sweet

* A lot of people say that Harvard girls aren’t attractive. What’s your opinion on that?
Whatever you focus on you’re going to notice a lot, I learned this in positive psychology. Whatever you focus on you’ll see them. If you come in with a different perspective, there actually are a lot of attractive girls here - if you look for them you can really find them.

Where do you go to meet girls?
I used to go out to bars and stuff, and I don’t really go out that much actually. I meet a lot of girls out and about...I’ve met some girls online, that works too. Shopping malls are a really good place too.

* There are rumors that Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend Holly left him recently. How do you feel about that?
Tell Hef we’re comin’ to get him.

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