at my local sainsburys, nuts and zoo are covered with modesty boards which is great, but FHM isn't.
my opinion which i have included in an email to sainsburys-
I wandered past the magazines today at my local branch and FHM really stood out and felt almost pointless to cover the rest but leave that one uncovered. I felt that issue cover in particular was quite inappropriate as the woman had no bikini top on at all, she was just covering her breasts with her arms and had her legs spread open with some sort of towel in-between, it looked similar to a zoo or nuts cover. I understand that some issues may not be seen as, as inappropriate as others but even when they have bikinis on I think some front cover images are still overly provocative especially in certain poses on some magazines like FHM and are worth considering using modesty boards for those as well. I think people should ask themselves- would they give this magazine to a child? Before deciding it?s fine to display, because children can tilt their heads up and still see it. FHM stands for- for HIM magazine, (for men to look at women basically-and the content is mostly of that) and so I do think it?s similar to the content of zoo or nuts, maybe milder but should just be included in the same category to be honest. It also makes it fairer to all those magazines if they are all covered equally. I dont see the point of only covering some up.
Here?s the FHM website and it shows their latest issue at the top right hand corner-today being the 28th April 2011. www.fhm.com