After last year’s Boink release party was broken up prematurely by police because of alleged underage drinking, event coordinators took extra precautions to make sure Thursday night’s party was satisfying for everyone in attendance, from lawyers and recent graduates to a man claiming he was a Druid priest.

Boink editor Alecia Oleyourryk, who appeared on Howard Stern’s show Thursday morning, said the staff kept the party strictly 21-plus to prevent underage drinking. She said they only sold 250 tickets because of the limited capacity of Club Q, which hosted the party.

In addition, they designated half the available tickets for men and half for women. Men who wanted to attend the event had to bring a date, purchase a second ticket for a female friend or “sponsor” a female guest, according to the magazine’s website.

Oleyourryk said Boink was never supposed to be the “Boston University porn,” adding that they never said the magazine was affiliated with the university.

“It was always just dubbed the BU porno magazine because I went to BU when I started it,” she said. “But we have writers and models from all around.”

Oleyourryk said Thursday’s party was the first party the magazine held since college students came back to Boston this fall. Over the summer, the magazine held several private parties.

When the doors opened at 10 p.m., most of the partygoers flocked to televisions in the bar to watch the end of the Red Sox game or to have their bare chests painted.

One female fan who went topless had the Red Sox logo painted across her chest.

The body painting was provided in a curtained area between the club’s two main bars. Security officers prevented gawkers from watching the painting for too long. People who lingered by the body painting were asked to choose a bar and were escorted to one side of the club.

A man wearing a Roman Catholic priest collar identified himself as Druid priest Merlinus Ambrosius. He said he had gotten a lot of strange looks at the party because of his costume, but added that he didn’t mind. He said he was a fan of Boink and thought it was great to see young people celebrating their sexuality.

“People in [that] generation are much more sexually liberated and I think it’s a positive thing,” Ambrosius said. “Sex is natural and there is nothing wrong with it.”

He added that sex should be celebrated in all its legal forms, as long as it is between consenting adults and free of abuse. Ambrosius said he thinks American culture today is becoming more conservative, although many people think it is becoming more risqué.

Ambrosius said the abundant criticism Boink received was unfortunate, but that at least the coverage gave the magazine publicity.

“Was it unfair?” he said. “Yes, But it worked in Boink’s favor.”

Nikko Kappanam, a lawyer in Boston, attended the event with his friend. He said the Boink party was probably the best party he would attend in Boston.

“[It is the] only party in Boston that actually has an edge to it,” he said. Daniel Winter, a 2005 College of Arts and Sciences graduate, said he heard about the party over the radio when Oleyourryk spoke with Stern, also a BU COM alumni, to discuss the magazine and the party.

He said he purchased two tickets because he had to sponsor a female guest, but said the ticket policy was confusing.

“You’re buying two tickets regardless,” Winter said. “I obviously wasn’t of a sound mind when I bought the tickets.”

Winter said that he doesn’t read Boink, but that he has looked at the pictures.