How do people feel about the positioning of lads mags and certain newspapers in newsagents where children can see photos of naked women in pseudo porn poses? Be clear, this is not a thread against lads mags or porn in general, but absolutely about whether it is appropriate for these to be at a kids eye level. Some of the headlines are quite alarming for a 5 year old learning to read. Take a look next time you're in your local newsagents.

Are they no longer on top shelves? Plus don't they have that blue cover thing on them now?

Are they no longer on top shelves? Plus don't they have that blue cover thing on them now?

Look more closely the next time you are in a supermarket, those kids on the mag stall aren’t looking at Beano.

Given how quickly lads mag culture has gone from women in next to nothing to women in absolutely nothing, it's no real surprise how much is on show - the magazines acknowledge that they push what they can get away with to the absolute limit.

I'm pretty sure the magazines they tend to cover up actually show less!

Well, they've been doing it for years and I don't think it's done any of us any harm, has it?
Really they are only breasts (why would I rather write boobies??!!) and as most kids have mums* I am fairly sure they know what these are!
I do find it amusing though, just how many middle aged women I have worked with, who are so anti-pornography but who buy the sun newspaper everyday and see no correlation between the two!
But generally speaking I don't really think it is an issue - after all much art features naked ladies, billboards advertising all manner of things from underwear and swimwear through to holidays and perfumes feature semi naked women and many of the mens health magazines have near naked men oiled up and posing on the cover so I doubt this extra bit of boobery will harm them too much.
Plus it means the rest of us get to have a sneak peak too! :hihi:



*Yes, I know at some point we all have a mum, I meant most kids have a mum who is around. And who has breasts.

To be fair, we hae been looking at the top shelf for years, who can remember the shop on the Moor called Athena? teen lads poping in to look at the posters, trying to pretend we were looking for a poster, but looking at the nudey rudey ones

How do people feel about the positioning of lads mags and certain newspapers in newsagents where children can see photos of naked women in pseudo porn poses? Be clear, this is not a thread against lads mags or porn in general, but absolutely about whether it is appropriate for these to be at a kids eye level. Some of the headlines are quite alarming for a 5 year old learning to read. Take a look next time you're in your local newsagents.

Most people don't give a toss, and if you have your 5 year old with you, just keep hold of his hand and not let him look, small children shouldn't be picking up any magazines anyway, would you let your small child pick up bags of sweets?

compared to other countries like spain or italy we have very strange attitudes when it comes to sex

the top shelf magazines are out of reach to children so no harm can be done anyway

To be fair, we hae been looking at the top shelf for years, who can remember the shop on the Moor called Athena? teen lads poping in to look at the posters, trying to pretend we were looking for a poster, but looking at the nudey rudey ones

when i was younger the wicker was the best place to go to look at the spicy mags:D

Lads mags (nuts, GQ etc) as apposed to Porn Mags ( Mayfair, Escort, playboy etc ), are not offensive to anyone who might visit a foreign beach where it is possible to see hundreds of topless british women.

Anyone who finds pictures of topless women offensive really needs to chill out. We would probably be one of very few countries where this prudish attitude remains.

Anyone who finds pictures of topless women offensive really needs to chill out. We would probably be one of very few countries where this prudish attitude remains.

This argument holds water only if "pictures of topless women" do not have any sexual implications. If they do, they should be placed where young children cannot see them.

If they don't, one wonders why on earth so many of these magazines are so popular in the first place?

kids are that blinking tall these days even top shelf isnt out of there way!

who needs mags anyway.the tinternets awash with better stuff :)

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To be fair, we hae been looking at the top shelf for years, who can remember the shop on the Moor called Athena? teen lads poping in to look at the posters, trying to pretend we were looking for a poster, but looking at the nudey rudey ones

My original post made it clear - I'm not talking about teenage boys sneaking a peak. I'm talking about taking a young child into a newsagents and being confronted with these magazines at the cash point among the newspapers, or placed very close to the children's comics. Surely you guys do not think it appropriate that a 5 year old is asking me, "what's a**l s*x mummy?"

[QUOTE=nerd;5474307]Well, they've been doing it for years and I don't think it's done any of us any harm, has it?
But generally speaking I don't really think it is an issue - after all much art features naked ladies, billboards advertising all manner of things from underwear and swimwear through to holidays and perfumes feature semi naked women and many of the mens health magazines have near naked men oiled up and posing on the cover so I doubt this extra bit of boobery will harm them too much.QUOTE]

All you are basically saying is that it is prevalent - you are not really offering an argument for why it is ok to expose 5 year olds to explicit language and sexualised images.

Most people don't give a toss, and if you have your 5 year old with you, just keep hold of his hand and not let him look, small children shouldn't be picking up any magazines anyway, would you let your small child pick up bags of sweets?

The only way to stop a 5 year old looking would be to not take him into the shop or to put a blindfold on him. If he is looking at comics, these mags are right in front of his eyes. I certainly would not let him pick them up.
Surely parents of young children have a right to use their local shops without being confronted by this material. I wonder how closely everyone has looked at the covers recently? Children look very closely.

compared to other countries like spain or italy we have very strange attitudes when it comes to sex

the top shelf magazines are out of reach to children so no harm can be done anyway

I'm not talking about top shelf mags.

How do people feel about the positioning of lads mags and certain newspapers in newsagents where children can see photos of naked women in pseudo porn poses? Be clear, this is not a thread against lads mags or porn in general, but absolutely about whether it is appropriate for these to be at a kids eye level. Some of the headlines are quite alarming for a 5 year old learning to read. Take a look next time you're in your local newsagents.

I think peoples should get over themselves. In mainland Europe you regularly see topless women on the cover of magazines at normal eye height.

But mags like nuts do not have nude photos on them. The porn mags usually have the cover blocked out so you cant see it.

My original post made it clear - I'm not talking about teenage boys sneaking a peak. I'm talking about taking a young child into a newsagents and being confronted with these magazines at the cash point among the newspapers, or placed very close to the children's comics. Surely you guys do not think it appropriate that a 5 year old is asking me, "what's a**l s*x mummy?"

I don't believe this has ever taken place in this country. The nearest would be some headline in the Sport, and I'm pretty certain that there would be no reference to preferring deliveries from the Pavilion End on any magazine near the kids' stuff.

I The nearest would be some headline in the Sport, stuff.

I have noticed that in our newsagent he displays the back page of the Sport, well he is on the school run and in a morning the shop is full of little kids getting their 20p mix.

If they saw porn in your home, I'm sure social services would be interested, so if such things are easily viewable by young kids in newsagents, why isn't this challenged?

Perhaps shops should have to decide whether they are sellers of adult magazines with covers on display OR sweet shops?

If they saw porn in your home, I'm sure social services would be interested, so if such things are easily viewable by young kids in newsagents, why isn't this challenged?

Perhaps shops should have to decide whether they are sellers of adult magazines with covers on display OR sweet shops?

Becasue its not porn.

Surely you guys do not think it appropriate that a 5 year old is asking me, "what's a**l s*x mummy?"

If your child asks you a question like that just give them a straight answer. They'll end up with far more hang ups if you refuse to answer and teach them to think of sex as dirty.

Besides, these lads mags don't have full frontal gash on display on the cover. The maximum they can get away with is a topless women with her nipples covered, though I'm not sure what's so disgusting about nipples anyway. :huh:

The only way to stop a 5 year old looking would be to not take him into the shop or to put a blindfold on him. If he is looking at comics, these mags are right in front of his eyes. I certainly would not let him pick them up.
Surely parents of young children have a right to use their local shops without being confronted by this material. I wonder how closely everyone has looked at the covers recently? Children look very closely.

No, you do not have that right. You in fact have no "right" to shop in that shop at all, you are doing it with the permission of the owner of the shop. If you don't like what you see, don't go there.

Oh for Pete's sakes. Give over.

I'm assuming that the people who are so aghast at this terrible corruption of our youth have never been outside of the country? Maybe you should try visiting, spain, maybe?S
But then, of course, all the nudity and erotica freely on display in Spanish newsagents, garages, supermarkets, terrestial tv etc, has turned the Spaniards is a raving crowd of sex lunatics, so you're probably right - best never leave sheffield. Burn the newsagents.

auto98uk and Waxen_Pith's comments are spot on :thumbsup:

Oh dear, it doesn't take long does it, for people to descend into personal insults, which I find very boring. Lots of assumptions that I've never travelled, don't answer my kids' questions, let them pick up magazines etc etc.
I was actually quite interested to know people's opinions. But I think I have the measure of it now. I can't be bothered. Thanks to posters who replied with thought, either for or against.

Typical, ask a question and when you don't like the answers you complain about it (just been through the thread and there are no personal insults, it must purely therefore be that you hate it when people disagree with you)

Besides, these lads mags don't have full frontal gash on display on the cover. The maximum they can get away with is a topless women with her nipples covered, though I'm not sure what's so disgusting about nipples anyway. :huh:


Neither am I sure what's erotically arousing about them, but vast numbers of men find them to be precisely so - evidently, or the magazines wouldn't get increased sales by putting them on the cover.

So the question still stands - should we be exposing our children to erotically-arousing material?

Neither am I sure what's erotically arousing about them, but vast numbers of men find them to be precisely so - evidently, or the magazines wouldn't get increased sales by putting them on the cover.

So the question still stands - should we be exposing our children to erotically-arousing material?

Well, if the kid find it erotic, then they are old enough to look at it.

If they don't (which they wouldn't at 5) then it doesn't actually matter whether they look at it.

Well, if the kid find it erotic, then they are old enough to look at it.

If they don't (which they wouldn't at 5) then it doesn't actually matter whether they look at it.

That's a valid argument in a world where people flip instantly from being innocent pre-pubescent children into full-blown adults. Unfortunately, our world isn't that one.

That's a valid argument in a world where people flip instantly from being innocent pre-pubescent children into full-blown adults. Unfortunately, our world isn't that one.

So what comes between finding something erotic and not finding something erotic? I didn't mean they "become adults" I just meant that ever since ..... in fact that makes me think - are all catalogues banned from the OP's house? I seem to remember that they were the um..."thing" back in the day :D

Where was I......

Oh yes, I just meant that kids have always sought out this sort of thing, and that if they are of an age where theyare seeking it out because they find it erotic, it is no different to what any kid has done.

What is the problem, most guys tried to get a look at girly pics when they were young me and the mates used to make a game of it. So I don't see why the kids today should be any different to what we all were.