Lads mags

[lightoftruth]

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

i think this i a little over the top. I regularly read fhm and i find that it offers a good deal of advice about both fashion music and film.If anything mags such as Heat that insult women who have a little bit of cullulite are much more degrading to women.

[noxlumos]

Our older teen lads have mags like NUTS and FHM and to be honest there's nothing in them that's dreadful. My wife always reads them and laughs anyway and she's a very strong "liberated" woman. I think some people have to make a big deal out of nothing to justify their own existance and you are right it's women's magazines that give all of the negative stereotyping ( must have handbags/diets/ hair styles etc) that girls then take on board and worry over.

[trulli]

I love reading them (i'm female) I find womans mags are either the chat/take a break types that are full of sad stories about people dying of cancer or cheating men (and they always have a picture of some model on the front, whats that all about?) or they are celebrity/gossip type ones . Sooo boring. I need a female verion of fhm. Is there such a thing?

[noxlumos]

Dunno my wife is the same as you. If you took her near Chat or Take a break she'd vomit, but she'll howl at Nuts ( sounds bad doesn't it)? Mind you she reads Private Eye and Viz too so there's no accounting for taste.

[littleoldme]

Reading the article, it seems that "Ms" Curtis-Thomas (these types are always a "Ms", aren't they?) is mostly concerned about preventing children from buying these mags. Sounds fair enough to me.

I agree with other comments though. I'd have thought women's mags which focus on one fad diet after another and go down the "how to keep your man happy in bed because you can't work it out for yourself and he WILL cheat on you unless you take our advice and anyway you've got fat thighs" road would do far more damage to the self-esteem of the average woman than a lads' mag with a few scantily clad models.

[rachel3110]

hi there, i totally agree and i'm female. lads mags celebrate the female figure whereas girls gossip mags rip women to shreds. if you weigh too much or too little your slated, they get the dodgyest pics of boobs and bums and go into great detail on how to go on mad diet and exercise regimes so you too don't end up like them. kids can get a worse perspective on life lookin through a girlie gossip mag than they can lookin through a lads mag!! rant over sorry! ;)

[Goodsoulette]

I agree that there is nothing wrong with the content but to be honest I think the newsagents have to show some common sense. I have seen the front of zoo and the likes with a basic soft porn girl on girl shot on the front, this has been at 4 yr old head height at woolies.
It wouldnt hurt to have them a little higher up now would it??

[chimney]

But where does page 3 fit in? More to the point the daily sport which is bottom shelf, and given out to young boys on their paper rounds

[WaldoMcFroog]

My biggest problem with mags like Nuts and Zoo is the cowardice of anyone buying them. Buy proper porn. Get over it, admit it to yourselves.

[SaxyJag]

One of the things I've really missed in the two years since my youngest left the nest is the presence of FHM in the house (I'm his mum, by the way). There are some really interesting articles in it and to be honest, the sight of scantily clad young ladies doesn't bother me. It's not as though these models are exploited like they used to be. If had what they have, I'd use it the same way, so good luck to 'em.

I agree with LoT, it's these so-called women's mags that I find more insulting than any lads' mag. They display women as stereotypes and encourage their readers to fit these. The homemaker, the mum, the businesswoman, the beauty etc etc. Sorry, but I don't do stereotypes.

[Lordofwar]

I totally agree with the person who said Lads Mags is just soft porn for cowards!

By the way, have you noticed that while real porn mags are on the top shelf where children cannot reach them, yet magazines about REAL CRIME and murderers on the bottom shelves. Now, which is more dangerous? Kids looking at scantily clad women, or reading about the lives of famous killers and rapists?

[admarlow]

how come its only Lads mags, Cosmopolitan and More are exactly the same but for women, noone cares about them