Lads' mags have 6 weeks to "cover up": your reaction, please!

Well done Coop. Good compromise and step in the right direction.

Totally agree re the Sport and Page 3 etc as well - surely it is time for Page 3 to go?

Don't even get me started on the Mail Online and its obsession with the ever increasing/shrinking waistlines of so-called celebs...

My 12 month old will be most disappointed in our co-op trips now. He was shrieking and frantically signing 'milk' in their just the other day.

My breasts do not look like those of the models, but he obviously recognised something there!

Spotty, I don't actually think that the men who regularly ogle pics of women young enough to be their dd actually admire them

It's a lot more sinister than that

Excellent news. I don't want my dd growing up thinking its normal to expose most of her body and seek her self worth from men's admiration and gratification.

Unfortunately there are not many young stars aside from Emma Watson that realise classy can be sexy.

The sexual covers on both mens and women's mags with the totally degrading newspapers disgust me. We buy none of these and I fully support what co op are trying to do. What infuriates me is the sun newspaper as people will read it in public and hold the paper open at page 3 without any consideration for those walking around them.

Such an important 'step in the right direction' for so many reasons all of which have been discussed by others. Brilliant!

Brilliant decision by co-op.

I have a six month old DS & for a while thought how lucky I was to have had a boy because the idea of having to guide a little girl through the pitfalls of growing up, when surrounded by so many degrading sexualised images of women everywhere was seriously daunting.

However I feel that its also a big responsibility trying to bring up a boy to have a normal, respectful healthy view of women (including the idea that sex is something two people enjoy together, rather than something a woman does to make a man happy). This step by co-op really helps to fight the insidious idea that women are here to be used (to sell stuff, for men's sexual pleasure etc etc) rather than actual humans!

For those talking about the ''minority" having too much sway, anyone who has a vague knowledge of demographics would be aware that women are actually the majority of the population. If you add children to that suddenly the status quo (of all the sexualised pics of wonen on display in public spaces) seems very undemocratic.

Why don't the Co-op stop stocking these mags?

Good point zippey, I am expecting a DD shortly and I despair of the celeb weight crap she will doubtless be bombarded with.

Both types of magazine are just so damaging to women and young girls.

I agree with this move as well and agree with the comprise to keep selling them but in an indistinguishable cover.

I also find a lot of so-called girls mags offensive. The covers are fine but the content is preoccupied with celeb weight issues, and appearances.

weasle, you don't need to explain it to your DS. Just never buy The Sun or spend time with people who buy it and would have it lying around.

I totally agree it is gobsmacking that page 3 still exists.

They are misogynistic rags. They objectify women and therefore insult ALL women and the women who appear in them are too stupid, vulnerable or fame-hungry to see it.

Why won't the supermarkets just stop selling them? It's hardly going to dent their profits. Let the neanderthals take out a subscription if they're that desperate to see women in their pants sucking on lollipops...or whatever they do.

Good. Nuts & the like aren't just showing naked people, which wouldn't be offensive per se, they're particularly aggressive and obnoxious. It's not the nakedness, or the sex, it's the misogyny that makes them offensive.

Great work Co-op. I do love the co-op for their ethical policies. Will make sure I shop there even more. We have in total seven bank accounts with them and all our insurance.

also, why onEarth do we still tolerate page 3 in the Sun in 2013. How am I going to explain how society permits that in a newspaper to my ds? I hope one day it's something like the smoking ban, where we are incredulous that smoking was ever allowed in aeroplanes or restaurants.

Its a crying shame,

Co-op's just gone up in my estimation :)

A lot of respect for Co-op.

Excellent first step, well done, co-op. I look forward to the demise of these magazines altogether. Anything like this which 'de-normalises' them is to be welcomed.

Small independents are generally forced by the publishers to take the more "adult" titles if they want to stock the general interest magazines. The large chains have more bargaining power.

Now if you were to say 'large supermarket chains' don't need to stock them at all - it'd barely dent their profit margins. Its not fair to expect small independents to lead the way on that.

Newsy, well done for putting the effort in to get the mags out of the way of youngsters.

It's welcome news.

yeah, see that Yoni

No, I mean newsagents don't have to supply them at all. Possibly though there are common publishers for other items and it could become very fractious.