So sending a picture of your breasts to Nuts magazine is empowering

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I'm lost for words

I just want to sob for those young girls who think they are empowered.

I just don't get it, I've got a DD (21mths) I'd be devastated if she thought that photographing your tits for a bunch of juvenile men to ogle was a great achievenment.

Empowering, my arse.

can't imagine where girls get the idea that being slutty is empowering...

ahem ...er...

I listened to this on the radio. I despair. What a limited view of empowerment. What a sad reflection of what it might mean to be free and equal.

I've just sent a complaint to my local ASDA as I am sick of seeing 'Loaded' and 'Nuts' mags right by the till when I am paying for my groceries, with my children!

I feel like a prude for complaining (or feel I will be construed as such) Its become the norm now for these pictures to be everywhere, a norm perpetuated by the magazines themselves.

I really hope things go back the other way. How much further can it go? Young girls making home made porn films and sending them in to be rated?

edam - no, your tits apparently

God I am ashamed Portsmouth is mentioned in that article

Another fabulous role model here...

Ah Britney, her little 16year old sister is pregnant... they are great role models

How on earth can asking strange men/boys if your breasts are attractive enough for them be 'empowering'?
How can things have got to this state?

Maidamess - I complained to our local supermarket years ago as they had the daily sport lying on the bottom shelf along with the newspapers. I used to hurry the dds past it but one day I wasn't quick enough & 4yo dd2 wanted to know why a woman in a g-string was bent over with her arse to the camera, legs akimbo. Honestly there was nothing left to the imagination. So I complained & got stared at by everyone (including the store manager) as if I had 2 heads

Dh and I were talking about something similar to this last night. He said, quite rightly, it's a man's world. Now that I'm thinking about it though, is it a man's world? or a 15 year old boy's world?

You know what. I'll buy into all this when men start wearing trousers that show the root of their penis, or you have a man in a music video singing away while the camera does a close up of his genitals or arse every ten seconds, or men start wearing tight fitting clothing and ripping them off all the time.

Why IS it that men don't wear revealing clothing? Why IS it that a man is not defined by how sexy he is? Why IS it that a man can be many things, anything, without it being linked to his attractiveness or his penis, or how his bum looks...but if you are a woman, it all comes back to your tits and your fanny.

Is it because women are empowered? Really??

I think not.

God it's so depressing.

I am appalled when I see all the hideous Nuts, Loaded etc littering the magazine shelves at eye level in respectable shops.

In the 'old days' at least they had the decency to put the porn mags up high.

It now appears to be totally acceptable to have degrading images of women everywhere in society.

And this is somehow empowering for women?

You occasionally get nude shots in magazines such as Vogue, and they are really beautiful, celebrating the fantastic lines of the female form. And then you have the Sunday Sport .

I am SO thankful I have a son.

you say that Lapin, until he brings home a loverly 'empowered' girl.

God I really REALLY hope we can raise him well enough so that he's attracted to a girl who's more interested in bettering her brain than brandishing her boobs

I could send a picture of my breasts to Nuts. That would stop people buying the silly magazine.

actually, no. would need to shave my legs, as breasts are currently residing by my knees.

not sure the world is ready for the double whammy

The target age for purchasers of these magazines is 15-24, with an average of about 18 years old.

The big joke of course, is how a generation of women have been manipulated into aspiring to become wank fodder.

So so sad.

One of the reasons page 3 girls have become so much more high profile in the last fews years is precisely because of these magazines. Page 3 used to be a moderately paid job (in modelling circles).

As a result of the circulation war between Zoo and Nuts and the bidding for exclusive rights for 'favourite' page 3 models to appear on their covers, income for page 3 type models has hit an all time high and made the job much more attractive for young girls. It is all a bit of a visious cirle.

These magazines are exploiting what most of us with boys hope is a temporary hormone fuelled phase for teenage boys and young men. i.e the raging hormone stage, where sex, boobs and girl's bodies in general become an all consuming interest along with juvenile and purile humour.

Zoo and Nuts have taken this stage of manhood and made a product very well targetted to it - as evidenced by the very high sales of these magazines.

IMO one of the reasons they have been so successful is society's obsession with sex (oh I hear my mother talking). We so don't want to be thought of as prudes that we feel objecting to this sort of thing makes us somehow 'old'.

The problem is that these magazines represent what should be a STAGE in male development and one that needs to be got though as quickly as possible but it has been elevated to an 'aspiration' rather than something men need to get through and come out the other side - hopefully more mature.

tapped into the juvenile

The sad thing is that many of these girls who think it is 'empowering' actually do believe this. They are aspiring to be the same as the young men who read these magazines. In their own way they are trying to be free of what they perceive to be constraints on female behaviour.

What they fail to understand is that this sort of behaviour is unsuitable for 'any' adult, male or female.