Early Noughties teen mag ridiculousness

This thread is bringing back so many memories. I almost wish I was a teenager again, when buying multiple magazines and reading them with friends was the highlight of my week. Magazines now are not as much fun!

[quote Bbq1]@Mockolate. I would say Catch was out circa 1990 but I could be wrong.[/quote]
Ah right, thank you - I was mostly TV HIts and Just Seventeen then so must have missed that one

Ahhh lovely shout magazine with Holly Willoughby modelling on the front with a free beaded bracelet! Just seventeen was the ruder of the lot, talking about sex and knobs and all sorts. Those were the good old days lol

@Mockolate. I would say Catch was out circa 1990 but I could be wrong.

My anc my friends used to snigger at More at school and then on the train to college. I remember my first boyfriend was a little bit older and we tried some of the positions when his parents went on holiday. It didn’t go well but was hilariously funny.

A couple of items I remember are a bit disturbing. A girl wrote into the problem page saying her boyfriend was obsessed with the Evil Dead films and in particular the scene where a girl was raped by a tree. He wanted to recreate this and penetrate her with a stick WTAF!

The other was a true life story about a young couple. They didn’t use contraception and of course the girl became pregnant. Terrified they got some pills from the internet to induce a miscarriage, they didn’t seem to work so the boy used a bent piece of wire. She nearly died.

I used to get every magazine going, had a relative who worked in a newsagent and used to bring me a copy of all the magazines home, I'm presuming the ones that didn't sell lol
I don't remember Catch! though?
What years was that out, I was reading magazine mid 1980s onwards

@OP I too rocked the skirt over trousers look for the 4 or so months that it was "in", wtf was that about

My mum has a copy of shout in my memory box, I was in it when I was about 13/14, there was a couple of local girls in the same issue (teenagers working) and the issue either before or after a girl from my class was in with her many pets. A lady who wrote for them lived opposite us and was mates with my mums best friend

Position on the fortnight was just eye opening at 13! No way would i let my children read them now but i know there is much worse readily available on the internet

Can this be moved to classics is usually overused for non funny threads, but if it hasn't already been suggested can this one be please @MNHQ?
It's nostalgia feel good

More magazine taught me all my best sex moves. “Although its called a blow job-suck don’t blow!!” sticks in my mind 😂

I always remember a true life story about a girl with 3 kids by the age of 16. it was in sugar. I wonder what happen to her. Apparently the pill didn't work for her.

Your best friend fancying 'your crush' was a cause of endless misery.

Yes to the main theme being about getting boys to notice you! I remember specific advice being to "have a trademark" such as "being the girl with the fluffy backpack" (?!)

Gosh imagine if they made More now. It would be filled with warnings about sexting pictures, how to vajazzle to amaze him and tips to keep your Instagram face while orgasmic

I have rummaged around in my spare room and found my copy of Catch!

Fabulous! A lost treasure!

There are also a couple of makeover features (one where the two women are insurance clerks), some very odd fashion (lots of expensive leggings), I think one of the models is Keeley Hawes, and the ubiquitous smashed up make-up (I’d never noticed that before!). I was thinking that the clothes pictured are a similar price to what they are now. I suppose this reflects the fact that clothes these days are actually pretty cheap.

Brilliant! I just checked and Keeley Hawes would have been 17 or 18 at the time so it very likely is her.

Googling for ‘Catch magazine’ yields zero results. Even searching for ‘list of magazines published by DC Thomson’ doesn’t produce anything. Has Catch been edited out of history? Is it a sinister plot to redact terrible magazine features?

Actually I would enjoy a week’s holiday in the DC Thomson archives (Dundee or somewhere I think) reading all the back issues of the elusive Catch plus Blue Jeans, Patches, My Guy etc etc.

About Girl magazine in the early to mid 80s:

I remember a long-running photo-serial about a girl called Claire, and another one about a club or something called 'The Pink Flamingo'.

Well remembered. The Pink Flamingo was a nightclub for young teenagers at which no alcohol was served. As if, but I was so jealous and wished that I lived near it.

I remember one of the problems on the Girl problem page from around this time. A girl of 12 had written in to say that she was bored most of the time (I empathised: I too was 12 and bored). The agony aunt was a matronly school nurse type and her advice was this (I can still remember it):

“You are at the age where we used to say, ‘too old for toys, too young for boys’. In the meantime, try to keep busy so that when you meet boys you will have something to talk about”.

Disappointing! No wonder Mizz seemed so compelling in comparison.

Does anyone remember Minx? It was mid nineties ladette Britpop, like More but with a sense of humour. I also used to love Select magazine, like NME without the stroppiness, the classifieds were brilliant.

J17- for 13 year olds who wanted to be older.
Mizz- preoccupied with fashion
More - for people who weren’t having sex but wanted to read about sex like they were, as soon as I was having sex it got a bit dull.

All I have at him is a German magazine from the late 80’s as my DM was trying to learn German and I butchered the photo stories with my own made up translations, which reading back looks like at 13 I was largely preoccupied with dicks and the alcohol percentage in spirits. The rest of the magazine, judging by the images is pretty similar to the uk ones.

God I loved reading those magazines, but they made me cry! I had bad acne, no boys ever fancied me, and I was severely bullied at school. I’d get so upset reading them because I wasn’t a pretty, popular girl with boys fancying me.

I still have stacks of the Zoey books! I thought I had them all but there are some missing. Haven't read them in years but I absolutely loved them, I used to wish I could take the ferry to school.
Free to anyone who wants to relive their youth! Seriously, I'm trying to clear out to move house so you would be doing me a favour!

I do remember doing quizzes about personality, lifestyle, etc. I think the 'right answers' were fairly obvious. My friends and I tended to get the same answers, despite neither being all super-similar nor copying each other's answers!

I remember 'Blue Jeans' as well as others I've mentioned, but seem to have missed out on 'More'.

I know people a bit older than me who have fond memories of a magazine called 'Mirabelle' - that may have been 60s/ early 70s.

I think there still are teen mags, but teens nowadays are more likely to go to Internet sites.

To be fair I still use the blowjob technique I learned from More . Never had any complaints

I was a teenager in the 80’s advice was to always look happy

That is still the advice that men love a smiley women (and advice given out on here to how can I attract someone question)

I’ve never been a smiley type unless having taken an e

I confess to still buying magazines, I read Grazia, Cosmo, New & Red plus read their online articles too when I have time.

I just prefer print copies to the small copy on my phone. I don't have an iPad or laptop which would be easier to read than my phone.

It's like, I prefer owning real books to a Kindle.