NEW YORK (TNA) – You can learn a lot of things in college, but how to put together a porn magazine is generally not one of them.

Unless you’re Boston University graduate Alecia Oleyourryk, who spent much of her time in school putting together Boink!, which is the first student-run magazine to call itself porn.

That distinction is important to Oleyourryk, who says there have been other student-run magazines focused around sex, but those had a veneer of respectability by having some redeeming social value.

“Other magazines funded by colleges would tip-toe around sex, but wouldn’t jump into the pool,” she said. For instance, for every shot of a hot coed, there was an article about sexually transmitted diseases.

But not Boink!. When Oleyourryk started the mag back in February 2005, along with her co-creators Christopher Anderson and Vanessa M. White, they made the editorial decision to arouse, not enlighten.

“When we started, we decided, ‘Hey! Let’s do a magazine that doesn't have to be justified with articles about STDs. Let’s have sex for sex’s sake,’” she said.

It seems to have been a fruitful editorial policy. Boink! is still around and could be going national in the near future. Not only that, but a compilation of the show’s first issues called “Boink! College Sex By The People Having It” (Grand Central Publishing) hits stores on Feb. 11.

That’s good news for Oleyourryk, who says she comes by her approach to sex naturally. She grew up on a farm in upstate New York where, she says, seeing the animals having sex and babies was a normal part of life.

It wasn’t that hard to adopt that mindset to the freewheeling experiential aspects of the college experience, even though she insists that students in higher education don’t necessarily have higher sex drives.

“College has a reputation for being full of free sex, but much of that goes on behind closed doors,” she said. “Still, the environment breeds openness.”

It may also breed exhibitionism. When the Boink! editors first put out feelers in the Boston area for models and writers, it was “relatively easier to get models more than writers,” Oleyourryk said.

Although it’s highly likely that the mag would’ve been a success if the photo spreads had focused on comely coeds, Boink! editors made the decision early on to feature gay, hetero, bi and transgendered articles and photos.

“We set out to give an accurate look at college life,” Oleyourryk said, adding that the attempts at balanced smut were affected by hardcore realities, since the students had to find time to do the photo shoots or write their porn stories in between classes and reports. She quickly figured out who was committed to the kinky concept.

“Generally, the straight males were the most dependable about making deadlines,” she said.

That said, she still admits editing the stories can be quite a turn-on – in ways she never imagined.

“When you’re editing, it’s surprising what turns you on,” she said. “I was reading a guy-on-guy scene and was turned on in a strange way.”

Oleyourryk has received national attention for Boink! and admits some former students don’t think the mag reflects just how truly hot and wild sex can be during the college years. Still, she thinks they’re victims of 20/20 hindsight.

“When people look back at things, they tend to emphasize the extremes rather than the middle of the road,” she philosophized.

Sadly, that may eventually happen to Oleyourryk, who has since graduated college and is looking for ways to take Boink! outside of the Northeast. She thinks it will more likely pop up on the East and West Coasts before the rest of the country.

Regardless of how big Boink! gets, Oleyourryk concedes she will have to step away eventually and go to other projects.

But even though she will leave Boink! behind her, it will always be a part of her, and, perhaps, so will the perceptions people have made about her.

“A lot of people have assumed I was a slut,” she said. “They assumed the fact I was editing a porn magazine implied promiscuity. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am probably the tamest, most prudish of my friends. I don’t have the time to be having all the sex people assume I’m having.”