Lads Mags

[Boto]

Have just heard on the news there is a campaign to get rid of lads' mags. There is a call for retailers to remove them or risk being open to legal action. What do you think - are they sexist, pornographic, do they offend you?

[sebhfhion]

Daffy, you ask if posters feel its demeaning for a woman to show her breasts on a beach. This is not the same thing at all, nudity should not be demeaning, but it's these sorts of magazines that give out messages to young men that would or could result in women who want to expose their breasts in public to lewd and derogatory comments.

[daffy654]

I never asked that seb, you have the wrong person.

[emmie]

seb, that was what i was trying to say, it gets a bit convoluted. I only think of the girls involved and if she was my daughter.

[friedgreentomato]

not at all nothing wrong with a bit of porn.

[DaisyNonna]

AS I don't read them they do not offend me. The idea of them does.

[emmie]

as long as the girls are willing participants, i expect some are not. I wouldn't want my daughter being involved.

[friedgreentomato]

The porn available on the top shelf is hardly going to have girls that are being force into it!

[emmie]

there seems to be some confusion over these mags, they are not just the sort as already been mentioned like FHM, loaded, these are far more the type porn you can view on the net. look at the photo in the huffington post link i provided. it gives a clear view of what i am talking about. The trouble with porn is that it generally involves some woman, who may or may not be willing, and can give men a distorted view of what women are like, and if boys are viewing this, then perhaps that's a problem. I am not in favour of censorship, and far more explicit images can be found on the net. So ban it or not, i wouldn't buy, look, not my thing.

[mikey4444]

ummmmmmmmmmm opened the debate with just my views. I'm all for protecting children against pornography but banning legal magazines is not the way forward. These are on sale in my local Newsagents and are placed up high so that young hands can't get at them. Awkward for the paper boy I expect, but I guess he will face bigger challenges than this before he gets too much older.

In the internet age, trying to ban publications like this is akin to King Canute and his struggle with the tide.

[ummmm]

Em, after this thread yesterday my OH looked up Zoo on-line. The advert for females was basically 'Are your breasts real?' send your photos in.

That's hardly forcing someone to do something they don't want to do.

[emmie]

there are a thousand and one titles, that would be called lads mags, that's a misnomer, many are porn by any other name. They can be purchased from just about any store, our local convenience stores sell them, and are in plain view of all.

[emmie]

of course some women will trade off their looks, earn money by racy photo's that is nothing new.

[andy-hughes]

umm - your response calls to mind the famous Lord Beaverbrook annecdote - since attributed to everyone from Churchill to George Bernard Shaw - during a game involving hypothentical questions, he asked an American actress if she would live with a man who would pay her one million dollars. She agreed she would. When asked if she would live with a man for twenty dollars, the actress angirly asked what sort of woman his lordship thought she was. he replied that they had established what soret of woman she was, they were merely arguing over the degree.

That rather questions your notion that girls getting paid for showing themselves is a little harmless fun - it isl after all, only a matter of degree.