lads mags

13 replies

steinermum · 15/02/2007 21:35

Does anyone else feel enraged but helpless when they go to a newsagents with their children and
find lads mags/the sport newspaper displayed right by the children's comics? I get so angry that my sons are growing up seeing this as normal. I don't confront the newsagents as I think I look like an uptight prude and the one time I did, in Smiths at a railway station, I picked on a hapless, foreign employee stacking the shelves and ended up feeling ashamed of myself. If other MNers feel like I do, can we start or join some sort of campaign to get these mags moved out of our children's eyeline?

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Sheraz · 15/02/2007 21:38

I get really annoyed when the Daily Star has yet another shot up someone's skirt on the front page. And this'newspaper' is on the stand at eye level, for all to see. The lads mags are nothing but porn. I ma no prude but i do not want my DS's seeing women spread eagled. Mkaes me so cross.

Monkeytrousers · 15/02/2007 21:41

In 2006 the National Federation of Retail newsagents has already advised all of its members to move these magazines out of the eyeline of children. You can give them a friendly reminder - I do in my local.

Here's an article

divastropwantstodrop · 15/02/2007 21:44

here is an organisation that campaigns against such publications.

paulaplumpbottom · 15/02/2007 21:47

This really upsets me. Young children shouldn't have to see that. Its not just Newsagents, I've seen it in Sainsburys. Its also not just magazines but newspapers. Its awful.

Lio · 15/02/2007 21:55

I am engaged with trying to get my local library to display FHM and Maxim on top shelf or preferably in what is called a 'modesty cover'. Discovered the brilliant 'Object' website recently through Mumsnet. Think I will take my views further though, it's time that parliament legislated sensibly instead of the half-baked thing about displaying out of children's eyeline - I mean, it's a start, but it's not actually law.

Lio · 15/02/2007 21:57

By the way, have you read what Monkeytrousers had to say about this? There is a link in my original post from the thread started earlier this evening about whether there is a link between breastfeeding and the normlisation of porn.

WideWebWitch · 16/02/2007 20:30

I am enraged at lad mags too but I want to go further than just have them removed from view frankly.

divastropwantstodrop · 16/02/2007 20:40

there was supposed to be a bill being passed in parliament last october to bring in a regulator for these mags or something,but tony blair decided it was a waste of parliament time.

tescos were meant to have introduced a 'top shelf' policy for them but my local one still displays them at eye level...opposite the sandwiches(ewwwwww).needless to say i havent bought a sandwich from tesco for a long time,and i do most of my shopping at asda now

divastropwantstodrop · 16/02/2007 20:47

here is a thread i started on it a while back,i was shocked that some women find these mags perfectly acceptable.

nulnulcat · 16/02/2007 20:48

i dont have a problem with them

divastropwantstodrop · 16/02/2007 20:54

here is monkeytrousers post which lio referred to.

i dont want my daughters to grow up in a society which sees women in this way

Monkeytrousers · 16/02/2007 21:02

That's the nicest thing anyones ever done - thank you. Just hope it contributes something to the debate.

fizzbuzz · 16/02/2007 21:02

I hate them, and hate the fact that small kids are subjected to them. Also hate the fact that I am subjected to them whether I lke it or not.

I refuse to go in a local newsagent which has really horrible porn displayed openly on top shelf, with full covers visible. "Teenage Sluts" was the name of one.

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