Kalam A Tee,

"It is an unfortunate fact, backed up by a number of scientific studies, that pornography is just as addictive as narcotics"

No it isn't. Show me one peer-reviewed scientific study which shows that pornography is just as addictive as opioid drugs. I bet you can't.

All google has provided for me is a lot of references to a supposed study by one Richard Drake of Brigham Young University. But lo and behold, the actual study is nowhere to be found. The claim that porn is as addictive as narcotics is such an impressive and dramatic one that I suspect a lot of folk have simply pushed the 'I Believe' button and quoted it without first attempting to establish its veracity (exactly like you've just done). And thus a myth is born.

But I'll be willing to believe that you're not just telling big fat pork pies if you can show me some evidence to the contrary.

Lexi,
To put the matter into perspective. So-called “men’s magazines” hardly sell any copies. Even Playboy magazine was on the brink of closing a few years ago, and had to sell real estate to survive.

Overall, the concept that men’s magazines create rape is just another feminist type fear mongering campaign, but a far greater problem is the brain-dead, consumerist, and manipulative content of women’s magazines, which sell more copies than every other type of magazine combined.

So yes, women’s magazines should be re-assessed to see whether they should be banned, or should have some type of warning label attached.

BTW. I personally don’t think too many modern women are all that clued up about much at all, and eventually men will have to sort out their problems for them.

Kalam A Tee,
The trendy thing is to find fault with men, but I think the concept that men’s magazines are ruining relationships is a very long bow to draw, particularly when the sales of men’s magazines are so minimal.

However, I don’t think a relationship would go very well, if the woman has her nose forever stuck in a magazine with articles such as: -

“Mel Gibson pays out £271m to ex-wife Robyn”

or “27 Gorgeous Bags and Jewels”

or “Sinead O'Connor ends fourth marriage after just 16 days”

or “8 Items To Add Sparkle to Your Outfit”

or “Should He Love Me More Than I Love Him?”

or “32 New Hair Ideas for 2012”

or “Why Women Are Leaving Men for Other Women “

or “8 Products to Help You Shine This Holiday Season”

Walk into any house with a woman in it, and the magazine rack will probably be filled with magazines containing such articles, and I believe such magazines are creating far more relationship problems than they ever solve.

Women remain their own worst enemy.

It is not men.

Dear vanna,

I feel that you're simply stirring to
get a reaction. Either that or you
have a greater pre-occupation with
"women's magazines"
and take them more seriously than any
woman I know.

Perhaps in that case you should be a
little more particular of the company you
keep and your choice of reading matter.
It does definitely appear to be affecting your mind.

I'd have to agree, Lexi.

vanna's attitude to women's magazines is reminiscent of the priest's attitude to "Chocolate" in the film/book of the same name.
He decried the advent of a chocolate shop in his village and held it up as a temptation into moral decay and lack of control, warning his parishioners to beware of it and its proprietor.

At the end of the film he was found in a stupor in the front window display of the shop, having gorged himself into oblivion on the very chocolatey loveliness that he so despised.

Watch it, vanna - it's a slippery slope : )

Lexi and Poirot,
Did you know, the highest selling men’s magazines in most countries, are actually health magazines.

Oh, lets ban them, before men rape woman.

Did you also realise, that most of the titles to the articles I mentioned in my previous post, actually came from Oprah’s magazine.

Oprah was the $2.5 billionaire our illustrious and feminist Prime Minister fawned over earlier this year, and wanted to be on her show.
And that billionaire saleswoman, like to sell women products such as Givenchy Le Prisme Mono Eyeshadow in Or Céleste

“We like the matte shade on our brow bone, the shimmer on our lids, and just a touch of the sparkle in our inner corners”

http://www.oprah.com/style/Gold-Makeup-Ideas--Gold-Beauty-Products_4

No wonder our illustrious and feminist Prime Minister is such a fan.

That is the extent, that the brain-dead drivel of women's media has on the female population.

So what do feminists want to do? Ban men’s magazines of course.

I have never known a feminist to get anything right.

Dear vanna,

I'm happy for you that you enjoy reading Oprah's
magazine. However my taste in American mags
differs greatly from yours. I've never read
Oprah's magazine. My taste used to lean more towards
magazines like -

Vanity Fair
Time
Economist
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone
National Lampoon
Harper's Bazaar
Esquire

Just to name a few.

But hey - to each his/her own.
Whatever floats your boat.