To blanche every time I see next doors playboy range of towels and matching bedding on their washing line?

[blinks]

tis either 40 year old mothers or 16 year old daughter's.

i don't know which is worse.

It is NOT perfectly harmless for children to be parading round wearing the logo of a porn company!

It is also not perfectly harmless for girls to grow up thinking that being a Playboy model is something that they should aspire to.

Do we really have to repeat that?

also saw some playboy glasses today which seems an odd marketing move...

On the subject of PB glasses, I remember being shocked and appalled when a Year 8 girl turned up to my lesson wearing them a couple of years ago.

I explained (being quite selective . .!) how it all originated and asked which ridiculous optician had sold them to her (and her parents, more to the point . . )

Transpires it was my dh. God, he got a rollicking when he got in that evening.

She was 12, for goodness' sake, how could that ever be right?!

In days of yore when I was sixteen (and a gothy, feminist type) I painted my bedroom black and red. My mother was appalled (largely because she couldn't find curtains to match) UNTIL she found the perfect pair - playboy bunny curtains in matching hues. She was delighted because with the curtains in place none of the neighbours would see the dreadful 'harlot hues' in which I had painted my bedroom. She had no idea of the significance of the playboy bunnies - and thirty year later they are still hanging there. What the neighbours think I have no idea...

monkeypinkmonkey. I can beat that. I know of a 5 year old who has her bedroom done in Playboy stuff.

Hmm not sure i would be up in arms at this to be honest, 16 yr old or 40 yr old, whats the problem?

Unless Hugh is at their gaff and they are parading around on his arm, which to be honest would still be their business

I had a sweatshirt (this in the 80s) when I was a teen that my mum bought in the swapshop vintage store, with a Playboy logo. I was very naive and didn't really know what it stood for, but I'm sure my mum did, but hell it was cheap . I remember one of my mum's friends being a bit and I am now, come to think of it. It's funny because a student we had staying with us had a sweatshirt (doncha love the 80s) with BULLSHIT on it in very small print and mum didn't approve of that at all.

It's not about the bunny but what it represents...you can try and style it out but what it comes down to is porn in your home..the normalization of porn...I mean on friggin pencil cases and folders..on bedding and curtains?..Hugh is in your gaff..just he fooled you into thinking it's not porn related

A decade or 2 in future, I bet hope Playboy merchandise will be on those talking heads nostalgia programmes on telly, which will reminisce about how naff it was and wonder what on earth they were thinking...

"It is NOT perfectly harmless for children to be parading round wearing the logo of a porn company!"

She's not a child, though - she's 16, and probably shagging her arse off every night. I know I was at that age.

YANBU. My neice had playboy cushions etc in her room when she was 12. I was at the time but shouldn't have been surprised really. My SiL (her mother) recently came into our house and commented on the news we were watching as "what is this shit", then channel hopped and settled on Girls of the Playboy mansion.

They had a feature on this on newsround a few years ago. They interviewed some girls of about 9 or 10 and all of them were horrified once they had been told what the logo actually stood for, they said it was disgusting and they would never choose playboy stuff again.

Why would any self respecting 16 year old - or 40 year old - want to associate with the porn industry or even more importantly, support it financially? Seriously wonder about some people...

God - you need to move house!

its the same with the Katie Price bedlinen i saw yesterday i was thinking why would you want bed linen like her would it make you be like her why would you want to be like her? very confusing

I hate the playboy stuff, really, why let little girls wear/use things with a known porn symbol on it?! And Katie Price too, gah, kids in the classes I volunteered in came up to me saying they wanted to be like her! They are 5!

YANBU at all

Owning that stuff is a kind of warped way of saying you want to be a porn star, or that being a porn star is a great thing. And if you don't realise that that is the brand image, then sorry you are a bit thick IMO

Also aside from that it's just NAFF. It's analogous with covering your room and PJ's in Burberry print fgs

Whoever said about the 16 year old shagging her boyfriend, I'm sorry but what's that got to with promoting the porn industry? Having sex with your boyfriend privately and doing it infront of a camera for cash are very different things imvho

agree OP

All things Playboy/Jordan related are just vile

It's a bit like trying to advertise the fact you have a sex life. Like those t-shirts that declare how sexy you are.

My guess is, if you have to advertise it then you probably ain't getting any

Have to say for a site that goes on about bumsex every 5 mins, i'm surprised with the majority of these replies

Apart from the underage kid aspect which is fair enough, i'd have thought most people wouldnt really have cared less! Thought i'd stumbled into netmums for a sec!

Bumsex is between 2 consenting adults...not something I partake in..or would consider..but I don't see bumsex on a pencil case in WH Smiths!

Like is said, the underage kid bit is understandable.

It's not sex we're against, FatFree, it's the priming of little girls to accept the porn industry as normal and desirable.

The pornification of women young and older is what i object to...lets not pretend it's anything else...

god,it just screams " i am a CHAV! i have no taste.don't take me or my opinions seriously,i cannot be trusted to make any sane or rational decisions because i am capable of buying merchandise like THIS!"

what? too much?

YANBU at all
DD's friend (9 at the time) turned up to play once wearing giant hoop playboy earrings.
Why?!