Vagina, anyone?

[webwahm]

Please take a look at this photo and, if you feel it shouldn't be on view to kids, lend your support to the MN Campaign thread here

This has been bugging me since the weekend - but myself and others feel powerless to do anything.

Am I being unreasonable wanting to do something about this being on display to kids? I don't have a problem with porn, it has its place, but that place isn't on the bottom shelf, near kids magazines or sweet stands.

I'd support any move to keep things with 'adult content' away from minors, but I'm nervous of things people regard as unacceptabe.

From the Facebook page :
"tesco also sell gay times which many people find offensive as families shop at tescos & don't want gay propaganda pushed in their face"

From the Front Page Campaign Website:
"Gay magazines have been found on low shelves and without age restriction."

I'm not familiar with Gay magazines but if they also show adult pics on the front cover that's why they would have been included in the site's statement - the Facebook one is from a poster I believe.

it's really nasty.

(am a regular BTW, just testing the whole namechange thing for another reason)

Sorry, webwahm, but that won't wash.

You can see the front cover of the latest Gay Times here; clearly sickening filth that shouldn't be viewed by anyone .

What the FB poster means is that any gay title that presents being gay as a perfectly normal state of affairs is "propaganda" and shouldn't be visible anywhere that "families" shop. One could point out that plenty of these families have gay members, but that probably counts as "propaganda" too.

Mind you, that poster is also supporting the imposition of Sharia law "to help women regain their dignity" so I suspect he's hardly typical...

Are her legs right? She has a really round bum but there is no definition between the top of her thighs and her bum. It looks weird.

Vagina or not it is a yuck photo.

Why don't you start another thread in chat trying a different title.

ProfessorLayton - what won't "wash"??? Is there only 1 gay magazine??? I don't know!

It's my opinion that if ANY gay mag has adult content it will have been picked up by the Front Page Campaign...the site is about adult content, not about gay issues.

...and also on the Gay issue the site shows a pic of GT magazine (presume that's Gay Times) with a bloke with his hand down another's pants? Dunno, it's blurred out.

They also say

"There are a growing number of gay magazines for both men and women. Some of these contain sexualised front covers, whether routinely or occasionally"

This is not an anti-gay issue! It's any adult content in view of kids.

bump

Doesn't actually bother me personally, but obviously might offend lots of other people and I wouldn't really want small children seeing it, aren't covers like that supposed to be put on higher shelves?

It is on the star I think so it has the same laws as the sun and can be sold to anyone for about 60 pence. It contains details of other magazines and was in co-op between the sweets and comics.

Tidey...that's what we're trying to do, get it higher up out of kids way.

My local newsagent has put todays up on a high shelf with Nuts etc. Result

There are guidelines issued to fold or cover it, but it's voluntary and clearly doesn't always work...so along with a Home Office report myself and others would like to see the guidelines made mandatory (that it goes out of the view of kids).

have you put a link in chat?

The thing about it is, you don't know that it's the shop's fault. They could well have put it up higher but someone's come along, picked up and had a look and thrown in back down in the wrong place. It's quite conceivable that a busy shop wouldn't have the time to keep sending members of staff to check that no-one's moved any magazines or papers from their correct spot. I agree there should be rules in place about where these things should be put, but I don't see how every single shop and supermarket in the land can possibly keep to them all of the time.

I saw that at the weekend!
In the front of the garage with all the other newspapers.
I actually said to DH "can they show that out here-shouldn't it be top shelf only?!"

Tidey it has always gone on the bottom shelf and normally only has a pg 3 like picture on.

I can't see it, it says no photos have been made public

Click on it again greensleves it seems you can only see it if you click on it twice.

yuck

agree her arse is all wrong

I'm pretty sure its her knickers but they must have chosen that colour deliberately to make it look like her vagina. Its still disgusting though, I wouldn't want my son seeing that!

can anyone link to the pic again, cos it will NOT open for me

Is this better

slushy - didn't put on chat because I didn't want to be seen spamming MN; feel free to raise it if you think it will help.

The pic is definitely public, you just have to login and click twice or something for some reason.

I defo think it looks like her 'privates' as my little girl said...and only on close inspection you see it's her knickers. I thought it was her fingers at first.

As for placement, if it was routinely kept high up instead of bottom shelf with other papers, it would run less risk of being put back at the bottom I should think. The issue is that it is treated as the other 'news'papers, and because of that gets put with them...and because of THAT it's usually at kid height.