Lads mags to be hidden from children's sight

[Teenybitsad]

Daily Fail Sorry

Except for WHSmith...other biggies are hiding them!

[David51]

See also:

Daily Mail on size zero models

Seriously, we need to stop this knee-jerk hostility to the Mail, they do sometimes get it right & let's give credit where it's due

[Drizzela]

How about a new campaign to raise the prices so school boys can't afford them?

Maybe an extra tax on lad's mags enforced by the government... addressing the deficit and protecting our children?

[David51]

Do schoolboys actually buy them? More likely to take a sneaky look at dad's copy

[JessinAvalon]

I would have thought that no adult male would be seen reading Nuts & Zoo. It's accessible porn for 15 year old boys.

And any boy or man buying one should be hugely embarrassed at buying such a lowest common denominator rag.

[JessinAvalon]

I had an ongoing correspondence with WHSmith for a few months in which I questioned where their 1.2m restriction came from. According to a Department of Health age/height survey (available online), the height of an average 6-7 year old is 1.2m. Hardly hiding these mags from children.

In the end, they wouldn't put anything in writing and offered to speak to me on the phone instead.

Their head office isn't that far from me and I offered to go and meet with them to discuss my concerns but they didn't respond to that suggestion.

I don't shop in there or Tesco anymore. At least Sainsbury's took the complaints from customers seriously and covered them up, as did Morrisons.

It's hardly a big deal or very costly to buy some covers for the mags and move them up a few shelves.

[Drizzela]

I beleive, although no evidence, that they price them low to lure in young lads who want to be grown up and who are too young, skint or too ashamed to buy proper porn. It grooms them to see this kind of treatment of women as normal..

The older 'men' that buy it are just so ridiculous they don't bare speaking about.

They do exist though sadly. My ex was one of them. He argued they were fine and harmless until I told him I agreed and was going to encourage our DD to follow a career in posing nude in them and giving 'interviews' about how her preferred sexual act was anal and preferably with an entire england rugby team. Somehow it didn't sit well with him when it was his own DD.

[David51]

I remember once seeing a middle aged (?) guy on a train looking at a centrefold nude image.

I thought "That's a bit out of order, looking at porn on a train" But then of course I realised it wasn't porn, it was a lad mag (and therefore perfectly OK ).

[Goodadvice1980]

Unfortunately there has been a lot of venom towards mumsnetters from the "enlightened" men at House Price Crash over this and the survey featured on this site

What hope is there for the next generation of women? We are accused of wanting to see these magazines banned because we are all jealous!

[Drizzela]

Yes, jealous I am! With my supportive partner, very well paid job, independance and respect for the role I work in. I wish I was on the front of Zoo with my chest out "Behaving Badly" as they like to put it. Working in a role where I receive zero respect and can only hope for 5 -7 years of employment in at best...

Have Co-Op not signed up either, Nuts and Zoo are very much on show in my local one...