Which Magazine to submit to??

Hello to those of you reading this. I have a short story I am looking to submit - I have just been scouring a writer's reference guide I have and have been crossing off mags left, right, and center....b/w all the commercial mags and small presses I have a handful of candidates. Not got to the 'literary' mag lists yet.

This is the problem I am having: The story is centered around an utterly tabboo subject, but I have an absolute laugh with the whole thing - there's actually alot of meaning to the whole thing, but the engine of the story is the humor. There's no swearing, sex, violence - it's just drop dead funny (er, I think anyway : ) )

Perhaps I am being too careful in which mags to pick (I mean, there's some that say they take erotica and childrens stories - er??? I don't get that)

Does anyone have any advice? know any mags?

word count fits most of parameters - 7k, perhaps a touch high for a few. Genre - I suppose I'd put it in commercial fiction, in the sense it has a 'high concept' catch to it - it takes place, here on earth, but has an outerspace bit to it. and, as I said before it's a humorous story, which I guess isn't really a genre unto itself, transcending many genres...a mystery, a 'thriller', a love story, etc, can all be written in a humorous tone....I guess so long as it says they take 'humor' they'll look at it, so long as it doesn't fall out of their other parameters - but this is where it's a bit tricky - as I said before there is a, well, sort of tabboo element to it - basically there is a human sexuality elemenet in it - but there is no sex, no erotica, no swear words, no vulgar bits.....that bit is all written as an allusion, albeit a pretty obvious allusion....so, if they say, for example 'no erotica' should I assume they would see my allusions as not appropriate for their magazine....the odd thingi is some of these mags note that they take, like 10 different genres - examply of one: needs - adventure, experimental, fantasy, feminist, gay, historical, horror, lesbian, literary, mystery, suspense, new age, pyschic, supernatural, sci fi - - - well, this mag isn't exatly mainstream, point is though many of them take half a dozen or more genres....anyway, thanks for your feedback

thanks for the feedback mike, er, land...that is a fine picture - is that a guy in desparate need of a drink (or, er, a little action) or is it some gollum-ish character you found underneath your floorboards while doing some home renovations? the outerspace bit is limited to the fact there are a whole bunch of meteors bound for earth, which is about to be blown to smithereens, but the story takes place within the gravitational pull of our little planet. Stijin, I guess I would label it as commercial fiction written humorously. Your from Holland, eh? Been in the Amsterdam airport many times transferring, but have never been out of the airport. Always wanted to though - I've heard it's a great place to see!