So saddened

Support for you, OP! How many people stretch ' live and let live ' to include nasty degrading stuff heading in the direction of sex with minors.

Did you kick off about the cigarettes or booze behind the counter? The lotto tickets? The lies in the newspaper headlines? The airbrushed women in the fashion mags?

I find older people leching over 'teens' grim, but it's a moral issue not a legal one, and I wouldn't want to police other people's morals.

I find it very heartening that there are people who still get upset and angry about things like this rather than just shrugging their shoulders.

I think this is deeply wrong. Happy to be a mad old bint. Not sure what you can do though.

No, of course it's not 'all right' to tie up a non-emergency service for something you know ISN'T a criminal offence.

Surely using Google would have helped you identify where to go to raise a complaint (MP, publisher, etc).

What do you think the police can do about a legal publication (no matter how unpleasant we may find the subject matter)? Genuinely, what makes this a police matter?

everything is legal until its not, I guess that is what OP is getting at.

Should it be legal to advertise ' teen girls naked' ..... Also it is misleading if they are actual 20+

The ‘teen girls’ in top shelf mags are all adult women (and most of them are in their 20s). So there is nothing illegal happening. I completely understand why you found it offensive and yes, it’s grubby and depressing, but these are adult women and clearly no law is being broken so I’m really not sure what you expected to achieve by phoning the police. You might consider the material harmful, but so what? It’s still perfectly legal. Cigarettes are harmful. Alcohol is harmful. But presumably you don’t kick at shopkeepers and phone the police about those.

@Nicknacky is a magazine shouting "100's of teen girls naked - just for you" not a police issue? Do you know all the stats about teenage sexual abuse, teenage exploitation, not to mention the paedophiles or potential paedophiles that may get one step closer by being tempted by things like this? I'm surprised that you take offense with a 6 minute call, that may lead to preventing abuse.

Personally I find the title offensive and can't believe its legal to advertise a magazine that way.

I'm one of those that feel at 18 you are not quite ready to make a clear informed decision that being naked in a porn magazine is your best bet for a good future. I suspect it feels like their only option, hence exploitation.

@Firebox64 have you thought about possibly advertising standards authority? I know its not an 'advertisement' but perhaps the Title and the situation where the magazine was located may be of interest to them or they could point you in the right direction?

This is the trouble. It’s nothing important, only girls. The ones on display, and the ones who see those images being legally traded and learn that’s what they themselves are worth, and the ones later abused by the boys who also learnt that’s what girls are for …

Nothing important.

@Nicknacky Given the police spend an estimated 60,000 hours annually on Non Crime Hate Incidents I can’t get too wound up about a 6 minute conversation relating to the sexual exploitation of teenage girls.

"Teen" porn has been one of the most popular categories for a long time. I'd be very surprised if any man who watches porn hasn't watched at least one video in this category. See also "barely legal". Other very popular categories are "Japanese" and "Hentai". My guess is these categories are popular because young Japanese women are often considered to look younger than they are, and if you look up Hentai you'll see that the animations show what look like young girls.

OP, what is your aim? To ban the magazine, or to ban the category altogether? I don't think you'll be able to do anything about the magazine because the publisher will say the title is referring to 18 and 19 years olds. The category will never be banned because the fantasy of the underage girl (and sadly in many cases, the reality) is never going to go away. It's horrible, but this is why I'm single.

There is a newsagents near us that sells that stuff. I refuse to go in there and go in one of the others instead.
"teen girls" is particularly vile. And clearly of interest to a particular sort of urgh man.

A community based approach is good. I also think contacting your MP was a wise move. Do you know the publisher? I would certainly contact them. Perhaps post on the Feninust board as there are knowledgeable posters there involved in campaign work.

No, it’s not actually. People need to stop picking up the phone to police for things that are not a police matter. You might think it’s only “6 minutes” but it’s 6 minutes you stopped an operator actually helping someone who needed the police for a police matter.

So you wasted police time knowing full well it had nothing to do with the police? The police are not there as some kind of advice line!

I too a saddened.

What a culture where this is both normalised and legal.

I hope your social media campaign leads to a boycott - hit him in the pocket. His aggressive response is entirely inappropriate.

I actually thought of age of consent was older for some reason.

In reality, the women appearing in these magazines will probably be older, but just airbrushed or made to look like teenagers. Which is so creepy - I remember being hit on by older men when I was in my school uniform, it was horrible.

I don't know what you can do about it, but I would be as equally appalled as you. I've always been uncomfortable about the age of consent being 16, especially in relationships where a large age gap makes for a power imbalance.

OP, I understand your frustration, it's quite sad that this stuff has been totally normalised. Porn and porn culture is so much more visible and accessible now.

I remember having a discussion/argument about the availability of stuff like that with a guy around my age (40) a few years ago, and he was very dismissive of any concerns - and then I said something like 'what if it was showing/ implying loads of naked teen boys' - well his face dropped, he was disgusted, I could almost hear him thinking 'ew'.

And not just because he's not attracted to men, it's like he never thought of that kind of stuff, because men aren't really confronted with this like we are. They don't think of or see, or really care I suppose, how damaging things like this are to young women to see everywhere.

Well done for trying to raise this, it’s completely disgusting.

I recently listened to a podcast on Pornhub and their utter failure to police child pornography, my god that site is appalling.