Lads Mags Top Shelf ?

[WIBSBOT]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5111066.stm

Lad's mags -

Top shelf or bottom shelf where the kids can get hold of them ?

 

[William]

If you put them on the top shelf, that is unfair discrimination towards horny short children.

 

[Scott Salisbury]

Sexually explicit "lad's mags" should be kept out of reach of children on the top shelf by law, a Labour MP has said.

Wasn't this always the case? All paper shops here have these on the very top shelf

But omg, does it matter? I think nearly every household has the internet now and that is much worse. A 10 year old could do far worse on google images that he could ever see in a quick flick of a "lads mag" in a shop.

 

[penski]

Typical comfortable shoe-wearing, Greere-wannabe, pinko commie claptrap.

*n

 

[stig]

If you put them on the top shelf, that is unfair discrimination towards horny short children.

PMSL

 

[Andr3w]

i can still reach, i dont care

 

[james.miller]

Wasn't this always the case? All paper shops here have these on the very top shelf

But omg, does it matter? I think nearly every household has the internet now and that is far worse. A 10 year old could do far worse on google images that he could ever see in a quick flick of a "lads mag" in a shop.

while that's true, i dont think that's a valid arguement. Surely then its down to the parents to restrict what their children can do on the pc? parents not doing their job is not an excuse for letting children view a lads mag.

 

[shifty_uk]

But omg, does it matter? I think nearly every household has the internet now and that is much worse. A 10 year old could do far worse on google images that he could ever see in a quick flick of a "lads mag" in a shop.

I agree.

I also find it quite annoying walking into a shop, your instantly greeted by a magazine shelf full of these magazines. They've never got any decent magazines that people will actually buy.

 

[james.miller]

I agree.

I also find it quite annoying walking into a shop, your instantly greeted by a magazine shelf full of these magazines. They've never got any decent magazines that people will actually buy.

people DO buy them. otherwise they wouldnt be on the shelfs.

 

[WIBSBOT]

If you put them on the top shelf, that is unfair discrimination towards horny short children.

People are starting to look at me funny in the office I'm laughing so much.

 

[Kerplunk]

I always feel like im being watched if I glance at the top shelf, but you cant help it, can you?

 

[Scott Salisbury]

while that's true, i dont think that's a valid arguement. Surely then its down to the parents to restrict what their children can do on the pc? parents not doing their job is not an excuse for letting children view a lads mag.

Aye true. I can see where they are coming from just strikes me as a bit odd. Most of the mags here are sealed so you can't flick through them without buying anyway (damn it ).

 

[AndrewPE28]

My 10yr old step son uses the internet all the time. I've checked his history, and if it hasnt got 4 wheels and a big engine, he isnt interested. However, one of his mates came round and you should have seen the filth that was in the history. The little **** even managed to get a dialer onto my computer. Parents should look closer to home, theres far worse on the internet and TV than a lads mag.

If their that bothered then make the mags rated so that only a certain age can buy them. It's pathetic, do a google image search for Boob, it's just wrong what it brings up. Well for a 10yr old anyway, not for me

 

[MookJong]

while that's true, i dont think that's a valid arguement. Surely then its down to the parents to restrict what their children can do on the pc? parents not doing their job is not an excuse for letting children view a lads mag.

Spot on there, when I was a child lads magazines didn't really exist, ok there was Razzle and all that lurking up on the top shelf but some of the covers of the mags down at child level are on par with these now and I'm not sure thats a good thing.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I think it's been coming for awhile. Not that I buy these mags because I think threy are a bit sad tbh but they seem to be pushing their luck of late..

That said however, if kids want to get them they will. Top shelf or not. I know I did so I'm not to bothered where they go.

It's only adults that have the problem. Younger children don't know what they are so why should they go looking at them.. It's only when they start older schools that they start realising what they are.. or people who all of a sudden bring them into the lime light and make them an issue. It then turns on the curosity.

 

[Rich_L]

Meh, nothing that you don't see on page 3 which has been running for decades now and I don't believe the Sun is placed on the top shelf or age-restricted.

 

[MookJong]

Meh, nothing that you don't see on page 3 which has been running for decades now and I don't believe the Sun is placed on the top shelf or age-restricted.

I think the argument is that page 3 is hidden from view when you walk into the shop. Where as the front cover of these magazines have naked women lying all over eachother with their boobie nipples only just out of sight.

 

[shifty_uk]

Kinda off-topic but...is there any age restrictions when purchasing the sun newspaper? Can you buy it at any age?

 

[kitten_caboodle]

I think the argument is that page 3 is hidden from view when you walk into the shop. Where as the front cover of these magazines have naked women lying all over eachother with their boobie nipples only just out of sight.

that's it exactly. I personally think the lads' mags aren't an issue - meaning I don't find them offensive, however I have felt quite uncomfortable when I've taken my 7 year old godson out and he is at eye level (in Tesco) with some of these magazines. He is in that 'questioning' stage at the moment, and he asked me why the ladies were touching each others boobies, which was a horrible moment tbh.

I laughed it off, and told him they were playing a funny game and he paid no more attention but to be honest, I'd rather he couldn't see that on view quite so easily. Parents do have a job to control their kids, but unless you blindfold them, you can't stop them looking around. I have for some time wished that these mags were kept a bit more 'out of sight', and I can understand why some women want this to happen - it's just a shame it's always fugly women who go on telly about it - causing the blokes to say 'SHE's JUST JEALOUS' and ignoring the real issues behind it.

For me it's not about nudity at all, it's about the tone of the magazines, the girl-on-girl or girl just looking saucily at the camera while barely hiding her nipples that's the problem. Kids shouldn't see women as sex objects imo, not until they're old enough to appreciate what that means and make their own decisions on their attitudes to sex etc.

If blokes can't understand what the problem is, just imagine a gay may, say for example 'Attitude', with two well-built, sexy blokes on the front cover, with no clothes on, gazing at each others bits, barely hidden by their hands....and imagine your 7 year old daughter asking what they are doing and why they are playing with each others bits when they are both boys.

Now who's uncomfortable?

 

[fatiain]

If blokes can't understand what the problem is, just imagine a gay may, say for example 'Attitude', with two well-built, sexy blokes on the front cover, with no clothes on, gazing at each others bits, barely hidden by their hands....and imagine your 7 year old daughter asking what they are doing and why they are playing with each others bits when they are both boys.

Now who's uncomfortable?

Gay Times isn't on the top shelf. Allegedly. (Otacon told me)