To wonder if anyone else was banned from teenage magazines

[Dylaninthemovies1]

Completely random. But did anyone else’s mum ban them from reading certain magazines as a teenager? I wasn’t allowed to read More, just17, cosmopolitan or Marie Claire. In fairness the reason I wasn’t allowed Marie Claire was that I read an article about FGM when I was 10 and then got home and was a bit hysterical that this was in store for me. My mum had no idea that FGM was a thing until then.

I was only allowed to read shout, smash hits, the NME and melody maker.

Yabu: they weren’t banned in my family
Yanb: yes, they were banned in mine

Yes. My dad picked up a copy of one of my magazines (I forget which one it was) and the problem page was all about sex so I was banned from reading it.

It might have been more actually

My mother banned me from reading Jackie magazine because in her eyes it was too sexually explicit🤣
She was extremely weird and controlling though👀 🤦‍♀️

I was allowed a copy of Mizz because the front cover said it had info about periods in it, but there was absolutely no way my mum was buying me Sugar or cosmo or just17 when I was younger! Had to read my friend's copies

I wouldn’t even say my mum was that controlling or weird. But she is a strict catholic, so it might be something to do with it. She is oddly conservative in some ways but not in others.

My gay cousin and his boyfriend were buying a house together and she gave them a hard time because they weren’t getting married before buying a house together.

She also is very much pro life and believes abortion is very much a sin as bad as murder. But she is raging with the churches stance against contraception. As a teen she wasn’t happy I was in a sexual relationship, but she was very insistent I use condoms and went on the pill

Yes I was banned from buying Smash Hits as it was a ‘waste of money’.

I had a friend who used to give me the money to buy it the day it came out, read it and deliver it to her the next day. I’ve no idea where she is now, but she was very kind. Thanks Emma, wherever you are!

Nope same here

No ban in my house, I read them all.

They weren't exactly banned in my house, but my mum definitely let me know she disapproved if I bought one with my pocket money!

I wasnt, but looking back at them all (I used to keep them) sort of wish I'd never found them. They were awful. Making teenage girls aware of problems they didnt even. Like adult's magazines really.

My mother used to do random spot checks of my magazines. She was ok with Jackie and Pink but not keen on Mates.

I remember something called photo love 🤔
It was just sleeze🤣

We were allowed Jackie, and Blue Jeans wasn't banned.

But My Guy and 17 were not allowed (so classmates' copies had to read furtively at school)

I was allowed Girl Talk and then Shout. No other magazines allowed as my mum thought they were too grown up for me. I remember really feeling left out and being embarrassed that I could only have Shout magazine when all the other (cool) girls were allowed More etc.

I went on a Girl Guides trip to Spain at around 12/13 and one of the girls had More and I remember they had a ‘sex position of the week’ which was reverse cowgirl. They also had tips for a better sex life, one of them being ‘use conditioner in your pubic hair, to keep his hand lingering there.’

Definitely not appropriate for a bunch of 12 year old Girl Guides so maybe my mum had a point!

They were banned at school and my mum once threw a copy of Petticoat in the bin. (That dates me!)
I do think the photo strip kind that came later were terribly trashy, though. I might have binned those.

They were banned in my house for me (she got pornographic magazines for my brothers in their teens though, boys need that stuff).

Also banned were factual conversations, actual names of body parts, the word period and anything else 'female'.

Her justification for me not learning about sex, or having these magazines - if I knew about sex I would do it.

Plus George Micheal was in them and he was gay, and Robbie Williams used to wear rave dummies and I would instantly start taking drugs if I laid eyes upon a rave dummy, or see being gay as perfectly normal if I was to lay eyes upon an openly gay person.

I remember once I watched the Smash Hits Pole Winners Party, I thought she would spontaneously combust when she caught me (EYC were grinding away on the screen when she walked in)

My mother was a very, very fucked up individual, with very fucked up morals.

Yes.

My dad wouldn’t let me have anything that was deemed ‘grown up’. I asked for a magazine in a supermarket once. It was just 17 or something - he looked at it and put it down in disgust and called it filth. Said I could have a comic instead. I was 15 (and already shagging my boyfriend in secret, so that backfired).

I think for many of us of my generation (born 81) these magazines were where we got most of our sex education and knowledge about contraception/ protection against STDs. I had absolutely no sex Ed at school!

Also banned were factual conversations, actual names of body parts, the word period and anything else 'female'.

It was the same for me growing up. I once said to my mum, when I was about ten “oh look at that poor lady, she’s pregnant and she looks so tired”.

My mum took me straight to the church (she was very catholic) and was crying speaking to the priest about how I could know what the word pregnant was. Then he questioned me for an eternity. Then made me pray. Fucking weirdos. When I started my periods I hid it for months, then I gave in and had to pretend I didn’t know what was happening and asked her what the blood was. Again, priest called for advice, after she had a lay down to get over the shock.

To be fair, I don't really think any of those magazines were aimed at ten year olds, were they?! So your mum was probably right to ban them at that age.

I remember my mum buying me the 'Just 17 advice book' when I was about 10. I started my periods by then. It wasn't until I was in high school I started reading things like Just 17 and Mizz. I was obsessed with music though, so I bought things like Smash Hits, then moved onto NME etc instead. It wasn't until I was about 18 I started buying shit like cosmo and Glamour.

I wasn't banned, read everything from Smash Hits to Jackie, Just 17, Mizz and then onto metal magazines like Kerrang and Raw.

My friends and I used to love chortling at the J17 problem pages on the way to school 😏

I could read shout and Jackie but I was desparate to read just 17...I was told I couldn't read it until I was 17 because the name indicated the age you could be to read it!

My mother did explain about periods, but NEVER talked to me about sex. TBH as a teenager I wasn't really interested in it, I was interested in Romance. I was a late developer.

My friend lent me a copy of a teen mag when I was 13 in the late 70s. My mum took it off me , sneered at it and said it was rubbish!
I felt bad , so I gave it back to my friend and never bought any teen mags home ever again.

My mum was more worried about me becoming pregnant at a young age I think. ( I didn't) and didn't agree with sex before marriage either!
My cousin got married about 4 months pregnant and she said to me the day after her wedding ' do not do that to me!'
I think this and the rise of the teen mags like 'My Guy ' etc made her a bit paranoid!
(It did give me 'hang ups' about sex)