in thinking 'actually, I don't want my 4 yr old dd to see this pornographic fucking shite?

[onebatmother]

Oh just what I wish my children to see when we go and buy icecreams

It was on the lowest shelf (ground-level) with the other papers. DD (4) and DS (8) were transfixed, as you would expect.

I complained, asked Newsagent Man if he agreed it was was pornographic, and whether he would like his small children to see it. Newsagent man shrugged "yes, and no. But it's a paper..."
Me: "So someone makes you put it there?"
Him: "No but."
Me: "You are responsible for where things are displayed in this shop. You put it out of sight of children. Until then, I won't buy anything from this shop. I will be spreading the word."

Really, I was very, very angry.

yanbu,

im not anti porn - but you should only see it if you want to see it. i wonder why they dress porn up as a news paper anyway? weird. does it make it more respectable or is it for those with a very short attention span or who cant quite manage a glossy mag.

it should be top shelf stuff.

that porn in Marks and Spencers BP concessions is really putting me off buying any of their otherwise lovely products. If only they would change this policy there's no limit to what I would spend there.

What is the deal with M&S and these petrol station things? Because I'm sure another poster wasn;t able to use an M&S voucher in one. However, highlighting our concern to M&S seems like a very, very good plan to me.

I was all prepared to think you were being a bit stuffy and hysterical but no, you're right.

It's hideous.

I especially wouldn't want to have to tell a little girl that that woman's job is to stick her arse in the air like a fucking baboon.

Oh Flying Fig that is so horrid. Most of the Seventies was like that, if I recall correctly. They used to have girls in schoolgirl uniform on Page Three.

So if they stopped doing that, they can stop doing this, right?

Why should three mens' right to see half-arsed porn trump everyone else's rights? Particularly those of children not to be exposed to sexual imagery?

"yes why DO we lok like morons not that demented woman with her arse in the air"

couldn't agree more, you end up looking like some frigid loon because you don't want your 4 yr old DD thinking that is NORMAL behaviour

I turn the copies round in Tesco now, the manager just does this

I wouldn't call it pornography- she isn't naked-she's wearing a g string

don't object do a "action friday" about all this crap?

princessparty I think you're missing the point

You know, the hideous thing is that dd is currently completely obsessed with how you 'be' a woman - you know, all the trappings of femininity, hand on hip, head to one side and all that stuff. 'Being pretty'. Not particularly thrilled, but hey, I'm working on it. Now, though, she thinks that this is part of what being a woman is. If you want to be a pretty woman you have to stand in a pose which reveals the contours of your labia, in which you await the arrival of anyone who wants to fuck you.

GOD.

but legally there must be some law about showing porn to children?

why isn't this covered by that? how do they judge what is a pornographic image?

I might take Tesco to court

ooh i'm in sherby.. local M&S next Fri and swoosh them all off the shelf/floor.. well every little helps (oh thats tesco- lets get them too)

princessparty- she is bent over with her cheeks out, next to the word 'orgasm' that frankly my 4yo could decode phonetically without trouble.

YANBU!

Yes that's what I've just been trying to find out Sherby. There must be a law. Can't find anything with a brief web search but will look tomorrow.

Anyone interested in joining this campaign in the meantime: the front page campaign

this time last year, most of the supermarkets insisted they would only sell the new manic street preachers cd with a slipcover over it to hide the image as it was deemed offensive, and yet shops sell things like that in full view

(the manic's cd had a painting by an artist called jenny saville, of a girl with a large port wine stain on her face)

feminist friday

I confess I've never really noticed, but I'm sure that as DS gets bigger and starts paying more attention to these things that it will really grate with me.

Awful that Marks and Spencer should be condoning pornography.

obm, yes am trying to google but in a way that doesn't make child sexual images look dodgy in my google box

porn marks and spencer

god, how utterly depressing lucykate

yes that occurred to me sherby = I was thinking 'obscene publications' visible by children?

Yanbu

between the telly and the newsagents I feel like I'm fighting a constant bloody battle against a tide of dirty arse out tits out gyrating filth

put it all behind the counter and make the dirty beggars stand in the queue and ask the assistant

and make the assistant hard of hearing so to maximise the required volume of the request

I hate feeling like a bloody prude
but it's getting worse
where will we be in 5 years?

Arse shagging pics by the tills at waitrose

yanbu

The really vile thing about that 'newspaper' is that every other report seems to be about some sexual assault trial or other. It's as if the details are being printed for enjoyment. It's absolutely sick.

Not that I'm a regular reader. DP's colleague left his copy in DP's van last week. I know it wasn't DP's before anyone asks. He's currently engrossed in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies so not his usual reading material!

Hiya, that facebook group only has 969 members. Can we increase that and ask mnhq to start a campaign?