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

I'm the same age as you OP, and my mum wouldn't let me read Just 17, Shout, Mizz, More etc when I was about 14. I read them at a friends house instead! I'm pretty sure that's where most of my sex ed came from, to be honest.

As a young teen I wasn't allowed just17 but I had mizz and

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Mizz and sugar. Wish I had an old copy to red through. There was a gossipy one called Sneak aswell that I liked

At an old opticians job I got bollocked by the boss. I asked an old lady if her new lenses seemed ok and turned around to find a reading chart for her, but she grabbed my more magazine and was reading position of the week to check the new lenses were ok. My boss walked down to check the fit and he was furious! I was so embarrassed I was only 17

My mum, God bless her, used to have Smash Hits and Just Seventeen delivered with the papers.

Not banned, but discouraged. So I read them sometimes, it had to buy myself.

I was allowed to read them, I remember all the sex stuff in More being very exciting at the time! Not sure how old I was though, 12 of 13 maybe

My parents didn’t really censor anything once we hit secondary school. I read adult books from age 11, including lots of Stephen King from about 12 onwards which is not at all age appropriate!

Yes. I used to get Sugar until my mum heard something on the radio about it and it was banned after that. Just 17 also banned.

Ooh you've just brought the memory crashing back! I was banned from Just 17 because my mum thought you had to be 17 to read it. I still bought them secretly though and moved on to More which was even more shocking when she found my stash. I got loads of useful info out of them though.

My parents never knew what magazines I read. I bought them to read at work (worked in a tiny village cafe from the age of 13). I can't remember what I bought, but it had position of the week and a sex advice page. Back in the time of no sex ed in school, and parents who didn't talk about anything like that ever, I learned everything about sex from magazines and fanfiction.

A friend of mine wasn’t allowed these magazines.

I had one that came with a little book of a sex tips. We were year 11 and my friend begged me to lend it to her and promised she wouldn’t let her mum find it. Of course her mum found it in her bag, I was called into the school office and my friends mum shouted at me waving the book (covered in plain paper) while shouting at me. I never forgave Faranak!

Oh yes, all banned, particularly Just17 as others have said, Mother assumed this was for over 17s...

Mother thought she'd cracked it by refusing to buy them for me, or allow me to buy them when I went to the supermarket with her.

What Mother did not know was that a/ the school library had several teen mag subscriptions so I could read them there for nothing and b/ I organised my own sub at the newsagents I walked past to get to school each day... so I had Horse & Pony, and More on subscription. Bwahahaha.

In a truly bizarre twist, I was banned from reading Just 17 but I remember my mum putting on a video for me and my sister to watch...it was Pretty Woman...my sister was about 6 and I was 11

Not banned but refused to buy. Was told to go to library and read if so interested.
My dad had a massive issue with those magazines advertising inappropriately expensive stuff (designer gear).

Surprised by the no sex ed- I was born in 1970 and we had some ie last year of primary school a nurse came to tell us about periods.

I was a teenager in the 90s...we had sex education... although it was taken by the art teacher who focused on telling us about different fetishes

My mum was going to withdraw me from sex ed and also wouldn't let me have any magazines girl talk and mizz were among the banned ones.

Just 17 was banned from our house. I used to get Big?? or something, and then once my Mum heard somewhere that it had a feature on blow jobs in it and then that was banned too. Stupid really as I thought things like that were vile at that age, 14 ish! I remember arguing with my Mum who said I had to be 17 to get Just17, and me saying no 17 year old would read it!

No, I was a teen in the 80s and had loads of teen mags and annuals.

However, I have no nostalgia about Jackie magazine. I remember reading it and feeling bad because the mag made it seem that every other teenage girl went on dates with boys.

I wasn't allowed boyfriends, but snogged boys without my parents knowing. I didn't want to, I just believed that was what I was supposed to do. It led to a lot of issues with my behaviour and self esteem.

We had sex ed in the late 80s, I can remember watching some god awful 70s film of a couple making love and everyone in the classroom sniggering in embarrassment

I read them every month.
They really led me to believe toxic shock syndrome was more likely to be a threat in my life than it’s turned out to be!

Not banned in my house as a friend of my mum wrote articles for one of them.

I ‘borrowed’ my sister’s Just 17 and but by 13 or so it was all about More. Position of the fortnight was my sex ed

I was born in the mid 90s and as a pre-teen and teen, I was allowed to read teen and women’s magazines. My books weren’t censored either. My mum would buy me them

Wasn't More magazine the one with position of the fortnight and tips on blow jobs??? I'm surprised I was allowed to read it tbh 😂

Yes! Just 17, more and sugar were off limits to me. Of course I used to read friends at school.