Shield our young from lads’ mags, say mums
Wednesday 16th March 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Toni Beck, an assistant at Ephgrave’s in St Martin’s, checks that its stock of so-called lads’ mags is out of children’s sight and reach. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1109108)
FOUNDERS of a local parenting website say so-called lads’ mags should be kept out of the sight of children.
Guernseymums.gg said that, ideally, the magazines should be put only on top shelves to protect children from unnecessary harm.
Its comments come after WHSmith refused to move a magazine to its highest shelves despite a campaign and pressure from national parenting site Mumsnet.
Speaking on behalf of Guernseymums.gg, co-founder Sarah Winsall said such material should not be accessible to young children.
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These kids have the internet, right?
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Yes, I totally agree, theres nothing worse then a paper cut
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You can’t shelter kids all their life. I do however agree that they should be placed at the top shelf.
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I’m a teenager and am perfectly aware of the existance of lad’s mags. However, I have not been ‘damaged’ by them… these mums need to calm down and have a nice cuppa with a copy of the Press.
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In this instance I do agree with you Mr G.
Kids should indeed be placed at the top shelf.
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Ok, get this into perspective , if parents did what they used to years ago and actually looked after their children instead of letting them touch everything in site there would be no problem.
I am old enough to remember being yanked back on my reins when I got near anything i shouldn’t touch.
Shops are not the custodians of your children YOU ARE
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as a footnote to that , how many of the people who buy these magazines actually hide them away in a locked draweer when they are home , my guess would be none
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I totally agree. 100%.
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And yet in this picture… the lads mags are already on the top shelf? What more do you want? Embarresed squeeky voiced teenagers going up to the counter to ask for a copy of Nuts?
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Can anyone tell me where WH Smith is ?
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There’s more inappropriate adult content (nudity, gossip, terrorism, natural disasters etc) in the red-top daily papers than a copy of Loaded or Nuts. Should we hide the newspapers under the counter like the cigarettes too?
Very soon, newsagents will have nothing left on display but cotton wool!
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Good post Ed, these are the same women that were moaning about the cost of bring kids up if they cant look after them dont have them.
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Who would buy these mags these days when you can see it on the internet for free? My guess is that these mags will die a slow death.
On another note, if you provide a barrier to accessing these mags then they will be valued more – by being “exclusive” and that is something to avoid. Barriers often fuel the fire.
I do see the point of guernseymums.gg though. I would guess that if the newsagents/shops who sold these magazines had any idea about marketing then they would already put these magazines at the eye level of the target audience, which one would assume would be too high for little children to see anyway.
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So naked men and women don,t exist ,the bathroom lock on most guernseymums bathrooms are triple bolted, and kids will have to wait till they are six years old at school to get any idea as why there are differences in manufacture ,get a life !
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Toady,
You say “I am old enough to remember being yanked back on my reins when I got near anything i shouldn’t touch.”
Exactly how old were you when your parents took off the leash?
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Is this guernsey mums or “english mums with nothing better to do whilst currently living in guernsey .com)
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I feel where they are at the moment on the top shelf they should stay end off.
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I found my stepfather’s mags when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I liked what I saw but didn’t know why!
…although I was rather puzzled why the nice lady was in the shower with a pot of cream – terrible waste of good food, I thought.
Long gone innocence…
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@PW Fudgedonut probably once I got past my 40th b’day the leash was lengthened :)
So do now say that all of the “snackbreak” books need to go on the top shelf ? after all books like Take a Break et al all contain stories of murder, drug taking, violence, incest and rape etc.
Don’t forget that comics such as Marvel, Spiderman etc. all contain violence, What about this Guernsey Press , does it go on the top shelf when its a bad headline ?
Parent who are worried about this must lead a poor lifestyle , after all they wont be smokers , or drinkers , as that would lead the children into temptation
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Toady
Although I agree with the Guernsey Mums about exposing kids to inappropriate content in so called “lads mags” it is interesting that it’s those particular magazines that are targeted whilst women’s gossip magazines get off scott free.
There wouldn’t be a case of double standards creeping in there? As you say, stories of murder rape and incest or reading about the dysfunctional lifestyles of nobodies, not to mention the image-obsessed “you’re ugly unless you wear this latest eye-liner” claptrap filling those rags is just as insidious to young impressionable minds.
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Mr Breda – sorry 1776 – are you suggesting that Guernsey Mothers do not care about their kids as much as English ones then? What a stupid comment.
Take a look at some of the offerings on view at the moment in any papershop and frankly if you think that is normal, then you should go and live in Jeremy Kyle land. just because things are more on display, dosent mean that they are “right” – just more on view. Toady – ask yourself who reads “Take a Break” anyway. Written by saddos, for saddos.
It is for the parents to say what they think is right or wrong. Nudity is not wrong – but frankly i don’t want to see some sad teenager with their “old before their time” eyes flashing their bits about whilst I buy the press. Sad thing is, some girls think this is a career choice!
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Young children do not need to be exposed to sexual images. I don’t see how any one could argue with that?
Also these magazines are ONLY showing sexual images of women which are not good for young people developing their views on the male and female roles in society.
When young people are ready to view the images they should be able too, and they can find them on the top shelf and on the internet. They would not be at a disadvantage by the measure nor would anyone else wanting to purchase them.
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Perhaps these mags should be kept on the top shelf,but I remember 40years ago when I was a Sunday school teacher a little five year old came up to me and told me he had found a book under Mummy and Daddys bed of ladies with no clothes on, I still chuckle to this day when I see this 45year old with a family of his own. I wonder what his thoughts on this would be.
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well i think the mags should stay where they are i dont know why ppl moan about men’s mags when us women have annsummers party’s and there are females mags too what the diff’s none to be fair what is guernsey coming too. i have young children and they dont touch anything unless i know what it is and now of days people can go on net and see it all anyway
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@Paul Le Page
Thank you Paul, at last someone has seen that allegedly “innocent” magazines are the ones doing the danger, especially with the particulary hateful type of celebrity such as a certain Ms Price.
These magazines are on coffee tables in most family houses without supervision so why should retailers take the rap ?
Its up to parents to look after their children PLEASE .
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Yes,I agree, parents should be responsible,for the behaviour of their children and what they are able to see, but when you can walk into a local store to buy groceries and are confonted by a newspaper stall with Daily Rags showing young ladies reveiling almost everything they have, then it does make life more difficult.
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If they are on the top shelf how am I meant to reach them?
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John
You must either ask the nice lady at the counter or the gentleman in the long mac by the paper stand
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Paul Le Page
Your post on March 17 at 6.44pm
Excellent point.
What is worse, kids seeing partial nudity, of the sort that any typo in a google search could bring? Or the idolisation of the Katie Price types, the thinner is better pshychology which is pushed subliminally in all womens mags and certainly not forgetting the “my transvestite boyfriend’s relationship with my gran” style shock stories that frequent those “coffee morning” publications.
The point I beleive, is that its much easier and straigtforward to be outraged by partial nudity.
I’d much prefer my children to be brought up in a world where they realise that sex is a normal part of life, but being a transvestite with a granny fetish isnt.
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How about we start a group called “Save our lads from over protective mothers”?
I have to agree with the comments about the gossip rags being a lot worse from a psychological stand point of view. Ask yourself this: Which is more harmful. A bit of partial nudity or the constant bombardment of “Latest diet you must try because you are flawed and imperfect” articles?
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