The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?
Its time to call a halt to this trash.......
What's wrong in our lives?
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The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?
Its time to call a halt to this trash.......
No offence capn but if you don't like it don't buy it. I for one do not need anyone to tell me what I can and cannot read. Same with television, all sets come with an off button.
The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?
Its time to call a halt to this trash.......
No offence capn but if you don't like it don't buy it. I for one do not need anyone to tell me what I can and cannot read. Same with television, all sets come with an off button.
What's wrong in our lives?
capt_buzzard wrote: The kind of trash that is pushed today on our magazine racks for our youth and adults alike has gone too far.Consider the December 2004 issue of Cosmopolitan, a highly regarded and popular woman's magazine. The word cospmopolitan means ''so sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world''
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?
Its time to call a halt to this trash.......
Suggestive materials have been around always. The difference today is that they are mainstreamed, and visable. Seeing these topics, or picture, or television shows is not a choice. they are right in front of our faces. Yes its true to buy or not is an adult choice. However it is impossible for children to be shielded
from undesireable images, because they are everywhere. A glimpse of smoething unsettling or upsetting can leave an imprint that lasts a lifetime. We have been in the midst of moral decay for a very long time. One only has to examine the rise in
sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, teen age pregnancy and incestuous behavior to know this is true. Unfortunately, it wont end. It is actually only the beginning. We have no where to go but down. Anyone who suggests that the public displays of sexually suggestive material is inappropriate, is considered to be a narrow minded zealot who does not support freedom to choose.
The titles on the cover advertise the main stories in this issue. They include "Sex Article You Must Read With Your Boyfriend" and "Caught With Your Pants Off " The titles are highly suggestive. Need we ask what message they're selling?
Its time to call a halt to this trash.......
Suggestive materials have been around always. The difference today is that they are mainstreamed, and visable. Seeing these topics, or picture, or television shows is not a choice. they are right in front of our faces. Yes its true to buy or not is an adult choice. However it is impossible for children to be shielded
from undesireable images, because they are everywhere. A glimpse of smoething unsettling or upsetting can leave an imprint that lasts a lifetime. We have been in the midst of moral decay for a very long time. One only has to examine the rise in
sexually transmitted diseases, divorce, teen age pregnancy and incestuous behavior to know this is true. Unfortunately, it wont end. It is actually only the beginning. We have no where to go but down. Anyone who suggests that the public displays of sexually suggestive material is inappropriate, is considered to be a narrow minded zealot who does not support freedom to choose.
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I think that that comparison is ridiculous.. and believe it or not, Ive considered myself to be a liberal my whole life, and yet Im getting to the point where I feel some censorship might be in order. Unfortunately humans are gluttons.. given some freedom that they are unable to handle, they poision themselves. And I really dont give a rats ass if adults DO poision themselves. But our lack of self controll for instant public gratification has gotten to the point where we are injuring small innocent minds. All for the sake of the god almighty buck. I am quite a commedianne and I often use off color humor for a laugh. My conversation however is quite different when I am in the company of children, or degenerates who cannot handle the humor without spinning out of control. Lets be honest and stop hiding behind our promised rights of freedom of speech blah blah blah.. We are a society living in a sewer . Given the freedom to run our own lives we have
run amock in smut.
run amock in smut.
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The only good way to reduce trash literature is if people don't buy it. As long as the market exists so will the product. That is free speech. If no one wanted smut it wouldn't exist. Efforts should be directed at reducing the desire for it.
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Perhaps in Canada, But If the EU get their final say on stuff here by 2012. Its the end of free speech ect.
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samename wrote:
what is going on with the way women are portrayed is seriously depressing, i grew up with feminists in my family talking about the patriarchy turning women into objects ... much to my horror it appears as if its now the older women teaching the young that to be liberated by being greedy power hungry sex crazed creatures ... what went wrong?
Let me assure you, though it is no reassurance, that I have known a number of women who equate theirs and other women's value with the "quality" of man they had caught in their nets. No man=No value. The liberated woman you describe is certainly trying to carve her niche but I am left asking...."WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MIDDLE GROUND???" I was raised to believe I was an object and told as an adult that I ought to be a power hungry crazed woman who would sleep her way to the top. I decided to just be myself...confused. HA! The question is are you who you think you are or who society told you to think you are. Which comes first?
Do these magazines etc create the desire to buy or does the buyer exist and therefore the product?
what is going on with the way women are portrayed is seriously depressing, i grew up with feminists in my family talking about the patriarchy turning women into objects ... much to my horror it appears as if its now the older women teaching the young that to be liberated by being greedy power hungry sex crazed creatures ... what went wrong?
Let me assure you, though it is no reassurance, that I have known a number of women who equate theirs and other women's value with the "quality" of man they had caught in their nets. No man=No value. The liberated woman you describe is certainly trying to carve her niche but I am left asking...."WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MIDDLE GROUND???" I was raised to believe I was an object and told as an adult that I ought to be a power hungry crazed woman who would sleep her way to the top. I decided to just be myself...confused. HA! The question is are you who you think you are or who society told you to think you are. Which comes first?
Do these magazines etc create the desire to buy or does the buyer exist and therefore the product?
What's wrong in our lives?
koan wrote: Let me assure you, though it is no reassurance, that I have known a number of women who equate theirs and other women's value with the "quality" of man they had caught in their nets. No man=No value. The liberated woman you describe is certainly trying to carve her niche but I am left asking...."WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MIDDLE GROUND???" I was raised to believe I was an object and told as an adult that I ought to be a power hungry crazed woman who would sleep her way to the top. I decided to just be myself...confused. HA! The question is are you who you think you are or who society told you to think you are. Which comes first?
Do these magazines etc create the desire to buy or does the buyer exist and therefore the product?
If you don't know that there is anything else of value in the world then you are prone to doing what the crowd does. If the crowd buys... you do too. Materialism sucks. Big time. But add consumerism into the mix and you are in big trouble. In the world there is enough for everyone's need. Not for everyone's greed.
Do these magazines etc create the desire to buy or does the buyer exist and therefore the product?
If you don't know that there is anything else of value in the world then you are prone to doing what the crowd does. If the crowd buys... you do too. Materialism sucks. Big time. But add consumerism into the mix and you are in big trouble. In the world there is enough for everyone's need. Not for everyone's greed.
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StelZ wrote: I am completely BORED BORED BORED with how much sex is used to sell things; magazines or anything else for that matter.
I agree! I'd like to return to a time when there was a little mystery involved in sex. It was far more exciting!
I remember that I had no idea what a woman's private parts looked like until I was 17. Of course I got a little information from the Playboy and the Penthouse magazines that I could scrounge from trashcans in the alleys, but they were all taken with the woman's leg's closed and in soft-focus to boot.
Somehow that was more intriguing...and more tasteful.
I agree! I'd like to return to a time when there was a little mystery involved in sex. It was far more exciting!
I remember that I had no idea what a woman's private parts looked like until I was 17. Of course I got a little information from the Playboy and the Penthouse magazines that I could scrounge from trashcans in the alleys, but they were all taken with the woman's leg's closed and in soft-focus to boot.
Somehow that was more intriguing...and more tasteful.
All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players...Shakespeare
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Jives wrote: I agree! I'd like to return to a time when there was a little mystery involved in sex. It was far more exciting!
I remember that I had no idea what a woman's private parts looked like until I was 17. Of course I got a little information from the Playboy and the Penthouse magazines that I could scrounge from trashcans in the alleys, but they were all taken with the woman's leg's closed and in soft-focus to boot.
Somehow that was more intriguing...and more tasteful.
People, it seems, have this innate mechanism that makes them want to learn. What they learn about is usually what they think about themselves. Star? Movie Magazines. Hunter? Hunting Magazines. As a rule it is a vicarious life but someone has to pay the bills and advertizing seems to fit the bill to a tee. In a perfect world there would be no bills to pay and the stories would be based in reality but as is is whoever captures the imagination of the reader gets the loot.
Some people sell medallions for twenty bucks and when you get the medallion of the person of great American Historical significance it turns out to be a penny. Truth in advertising. Some products are what you need and are legitimate, however, were it not for the fact that people read the magazines then there would be no good deals or bad deals to talk about.
National Geographic is a magazine that I enjoy and it points to the evolution of the universe. Movie magazines are of the universe of fantasy and once you get people dreaming you got their cash. They want to believe that they are the one that in all the universe is going to be the one to grab the infamous brass ring
Rather than bore everyone to tears it can be summed up in one word... GREED!
Jives? Are you sure that the trash can didn't belong to your buddy whose mom found these magazines stashed under his matress and threw them out?
I remember that I had no idea what a woman's private parts looked like until I was 17. Of course I got a little information from the Playboy and the Penthouse magazines that I could scrounge from trashcans in the alleys, but they were all taken with the woman's leg's closed and in soft-focus to boot.
Somehow that was more intriguing...and more tasteful.
People, it seems, have this innate mechanism that makes them want to learn. What they learn about is usually what they think about themselves. Star? Movie Magazines. Hunter? Hunting Magazines. As a rule it is a vicarious life but someone has to pay the bills and advertizing seems to fit the bill to a tee. In a perfect world there would be no bills to pay and the stories would be based in reality but as is is whoever captures the imagination of the reader gets the loot.
Some people sell medallions for twenty bucks and when you get the medallion of the person of great American Historical significance it turns out to be a penny. Truth in advertising. Some products are what you need and are legitimate, however, were it not for the fact that people read the magazines then there would be no good deals or bad deals to talk about.
National Geographic is a magazine that I enjoy and it points to the evolution of the universe. Movie magazines are of the universe of fantasy and once you get people dreaming you got their cash. They want to believe that they are the one that in all the universe is going to be the one to grab the infamous brass ring
Rather than bore everyone to tears it can be summed up in one word... GREED!
Jives? Are you sure that the trash can didn't belong to your buddy whose mom found these magazines stashed under his matress and threw them out?