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to think there should be pictures of semi-naked men on the front of womens' magazines...

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divastrop · 12/08/2007 21:24

..or b*k naked but airbrushed to within a milimetre of being pornographic?

i have accepted that 'lads mags' are here to stay,but what i cant accept is that there are no equivalent magazines aimed at women.

i only have eyes for one man now,but i know that when i was 18/19 i actually liked looking at picture of fit blokes with few clothes on,and would have much preferred reading articles about male slebs and fun sex stuff than reading about how much weight victoria beckham has lost or how many times paris hilton has been arrested.

is there really no market for such magazines,or is it a conspiracy to continue to repress women?

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Nightynight · 12/08/2007 22:57

In the recent hot weather, I travelled every day on the underground.
I am absolutly fed up with seeing men dressed modestly, covered from elbow to knee in loose fitting cotton, and women displaying acres of bare flesh. What is the matter with us, that one half of the population dresses comfortably and modestly, and the other half squeezes into tight, skimpy clothing, showing off bare arms, bare shoulders, inches of cleavage, bare legs, bare midriff etc? It is almost impossible to find one woman of child-bearing age, dressed as modestly as ALL of the men!

Why do we do it? Scarcely any of the women I was looking at would have been economically dependent on the men.

It isnt for coolness, thats for sure, or men would do the same. Can you imagine if men started dressing in a similar way? Crotch hugging trousers, tight shirts slashed to the waist perhaps? Ugh.

Please no excuses about "feeling confident with their sexuality" - if this is about exploring sexuality, men would do it too.

No, the men know that they just have to have a shower and a clean shirt, and the women will be falling overthemselves to put their assets out on display. Is it really any great surprise, that there are magazines filled with nude women openly out on the shelves, and none filled with nude men (and no, I dont want to look at the nude men ones either)

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.

sorkycake · 12/08/2007 22:59

I'm not entirely sure the mag market has cottoned onto the fact that women view the subject of porn differently to men.
IIRC 'for women' was a male attempt at what they thought women liked to view, hence it was so popular to the closet gay market. It did look like a gay mag really.
I remember seeing the first issue with the didgy cling film, not ever one of my fantasies I have to say!

mabelmurple · 12/08/2007 23:02

You may think it's a load of bollocks, divastrop, but I'm pretty sure that if pics of men sold more magazines the publishers would not persist in putting women on the front covers.

southeastastra · 12/08/2007 23:09

i do agree that there is a whole market out there

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