VICE Magazine Presents
The Self-Destruction Issue
- * 132 pages of glorious metallic and fluorescent ink
- * Wild stories of chicanery from across the world
- * An all-star cast of industry-leading self-saboteurs, including Will Self, Elias Rønnenfelt, and Antoine d’Agata
- * Shipping worldwide
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“Self-destruction has killed some of my best friends. It has also given me the greatest moments of my life and could’ve been the theme of every issue of VICE since its inception. Sometimes you just have to let bygones be bygones and give a set of catastrophically harmful behavioral patterns their dues.”
KEVIN LEE KHARAS, Editor In Chief
VICE Magazine
“I have channeled many decades of malignant energy caused by poor decision-making into this one unique publication. I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed ruining everything good that ever happened to me.”
BEN DITTO, Global Editorial Director
VICE Magazine
Inside the Issue
The Sex Cult of Miami’s Most Diabolical Pimp
William Foster used mind control, sexual punishments, and drugs to control a “family” of young women in Florida.
Catch Me if You Can
In Ukraine, young men are using “anti-conscription prosthetics” to avoid military service.
The Wild Goon Chase
Noelle Perdue visits Las Vegas for the first AVN porn expo since gooning went mainstream.
The VICE Guide to Self-Destruction
By expert self-destroyer, Will Self.
Pokémon Go… Away!
The Pokémon cosplay scene has a sex pest problem. We spoke to the fans tooling up to take self-defense into their own hands.
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Launch Night in Photos
Photos from parties across Europe as we marked the release of The Not The Photo Issue, shot by Alaska Ragenard (@alaska___r) and Ben Ziegler (@benzieglerr).
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