Campaigners want Lads Mags banned...

[max_tranmere]

This article has appeared in Yahoo News. A load of leftie lawyers have written an open letter to The Guardian (ha, it would be The Guardian wouldn't it!) saying it could constitute sexual harassment for staff in shops to have to handle Lads Mags and to put them on display. Could this be the beginning of the end for the Lads Mag as we know it?

[David Johnson]

And a spokeswoman for the group appeared on the BBC (ha, it would be the BBC wouldn't it!)

And the story has appeared in full in the Daily Mail (ha, it would be the Daily Mail wouldn't it!)

Meanwhile here in Johnson Mansions I am penning a letter to the newspapers about me handling a magazine which had a full page advert of Beckham in his underpants.

I'm sick of being objectified purely for women's pleasure. Why can't women love me for my mind as well as my magnificent body, Max?

!wink!

[william]

Yeah right.....

why the gardian - no other would touch it with a bargepole and it must be a slow news day ! the money made off of lads mags - which are soft porn is a lot enough to keep those shops making money so no I dont see this happening -

where do you draw the line - wont sell condoms as these are for sex - wont sell tampons as these go inside a woman, christ where will they try to go next ? loony lefties for a reason indeed.

[max_tranmere]

Hehe! I guess the BBC ran the story as they will run what is topical. The Daily Mail probably ran it because they see something like this (namely Lads Mags being banned) as a case of the Left, the nanny-state, and the PC Police, muscling in once again. I can see where the complainers are coming from to a certain extent though, if it were naked guys (standing at angles so nothing was on display as such) on the cover of magazines on the news stands, next to House & Garden and Take A Break, then some people would complain - so is it right to have images of women doing the same on Lads Mag covers? I can see their point to a certain degree.

[max_tranmere]

I guess it's the fact many of the girls are naked, even though their 'blushes' are covered. Things like condoms, tampons, etc, are a necessary thing to sell in shops - rather than leisure type things such as magazines for guys to jack off to. Years ago when we were an ultra-conservative society they probably wouldn't have allowed condoms or tampons to be displayed, you would've had to have approached the counter in the Chemist (no other outlet would sell them I'm sure) and discreetly ask the serving person for such things. Stuff like that wasn't talked about on TV and barely talked about in families once upon a time.

[mrchapel]

One more reason not to vote for femicunt filled labour

[David Johnson]

"The Daily Mail probably ran it because they see something like this (namely Lads Mags being banned) as a case of the Left, the nanny-state, and the PC Police, muscling in once again."

No. Their website reports the story verbatim without comment.

[a m playlist]

Was quite taken by this quote reported on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22674928

Piers Hernu, who has written for Loaded and FHM and used to be editor of Front magazine, said no "right-minded individual" would consider the content of these magazines pornographic.

"What we have here is a very deeply sinister and disturbing attempt by a group of fundamentalist, fanatical feminists trying to rope in some lawyers in order to bully the supermarkets into removing lads mags' from the shelves by alerting both staff and customers that they may be able to win a court case," he told the BBC.

[David Johnson]

Not quite sure why you appear to think it is only "lefties" to use your phrase that are against this stuff.

For example, Tory Education Minister, Michael Gove



I never realised that Thatcher, Major and Cameron were such big supporters of this stuff.

Don't you know for the Tories "Lads mags" is one of the causes of "Broken Britain", along with the huge payments made to the unemployed, single mums etc etc.

[David Johnson]

All I am stating in the post is that based on the Daily Mail story I link to in reply to Max is that the Mail doesn't seem to be describing the story as the nanny state gone mad as Max suggests.

Maybe the Mail will give that slant to the story elsewhere or in days to come.

Secondly, as I post here, the Tories don't appear to be fervent supporters of Lads Mags either.