Matthew seems to need to feel guilty about something and needs to find some other source of impure thoughts to purge. We have it from all sides. Don't show skinny models, or even ones that are too perfect, ban all porn, or anything controversial.

How many women have been raped because of Zoo magazine? Absolutely Zip.

For God's sake grow a spine.

i dont buy mens glossies
but have seen a few..and bought a few when i was young

and it wernt for 'the articles'
that in the main seem to be imaginative boasting

anyhow i read a biit more of the first page
[of the articles/porn that passes as info]

""The report surveyed students and found that 100% of girls found images in men's magazines to be offensive,"""

wow 100%
im a bit suss on that
what with lesian tendancies etc

but heck on second thought
WHY ARE THEY SHOWING PORN TO GIRLS?

was mummy
or daddy...or responsable adult..present..

[as the law would currently require for something that perverse]

""only 11% of males felt the same
and one-fifth admitted"""

oh lordy admitted
did they have legal advisers..that wont let one admit
confess to thinking 'like a rapist'...that it could go on their file[forvever]

admitting..suggests some pervert
said something ..'they admitted to'
not knowing the joinder to that they 'addmitted..to..''that the material encouraged..them to see women as sex objects.""

the material encouraged me
to read the filthy book
se the feelthy picuture

is a picture 'an object'
whats the true objective
certainly not perspective

vanna

If you were slagging off on pathetic celebrity/royalty voyeurism rags posing as women's magazines - like New Idea, Women's Weekly and Woman's Day - I'd be with you 100%. But, from checking out the magazine Jezebel from your link, all I can see is that it's a reasonably good quality publication targeted mainly, but not exclusively, at women. Sex is only one of the many generalist topics covered - from politics to gift wrapping.

If it's the racy articles that turn you off, for goodness sake. Aren't women allowed to imbibe some erotica from the public culture too?

vanna "You actually read that stuff."

I did yesterday. Like Atman I was suspicious of the study and the fact that the link was to a woman's mag rather than the research.

I do think that for some people a regular diet of unrealistic fantasy can cause harm to themselves and those around them, it does not seem that most women are all that keen to bring a female friend home for a threesome with their partner and most families don't have the budget to keep up with the images portrayed in womens magazines.

That does not necessarily lead to sexual assault or stealing from the family budget but there is some truth to the old adage about what we fill our minds with.

I don't always get it right but I do try and check what's being said rather than prejudging based on initial impressions. In the case of Jezebel it wasn't a solid diet of trashing men or treating them as a means to an end.

Two of the articles you mentioned were ones I read yesterday and both were fairly positive about men and boy's. Not the sort of magazine that has much appeal to me but then the men's mags targetted in this article don't have much appeal either, I'm more interested in special interest mags (hobby related).

R0bert

I wonder if they could replicate the studies with modern day language comparative quotes from the bible instead of "mens magazines" ?

eg

"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT"

or

"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again Exodus: 21"

or

"Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. Numbers: 31"

See if they're also a hit with the lads ? Maybe we will then need to rethink the bible ?

Kilarney,

No I am not "slagging off on pathetic celebrity/royalty voyeurism rags posing as women's magazines"

I'm serious.

If anyone gets into the habit of reading that crap, they would probably end up in the mental ward, or drive someone else into the mental ward.

The rather hopeless, disillusioned, disorientated, non-satisfiable excuses for women that now inhabit so much of our society, could well be the result of reading so much of that crap.