Along with much Japanese gay culture, gay magazines in Japan are segregated by type, aimed at an audience with specific interests. "Barazoku", however, attempted to reach a broad audience and thus contained "a little something for everybody". A typical issue of "Barazoku" had approximately 300 pages, including several pages of glossy color and black and white photographs of younger, fit men in their late teens and twenties (these photographs were censored in accordance with Japan's rules, which require the obscuring of genitals and pubic hair). Despite the inclusion of pornographic pictures, however, "Barazoku" was not a pornographic magazine.