Itō Bungaku, the magazine's editor since its inception, was not gay. Gay magazines in Japan, along with much gay culture, are segregated by "type"; most are aimed at an audience with specific interests. A typical issue of Barazoku had approximately 300 pages, including several pages of glossy colour and some 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.