I wish that grocery stores would not feature mags like Cosmo in the checkout aisle

[EricPeterson]

I am just offended by how stupid the magazines are in the first place.

[AR-305]

Pay attention, obviously you haven't seen how the mommy's who buy those magazines dress the little girls he goes to school with have you.

[jnug]

:facepalm

what gives people the right to walk into a place of business and think they an tell them what to do with there products? and then get mad because the business doesn't follow suit. if you don't like it go somewhere else, easy as that. how would you like it if someone walked into your house or business and told you how to run your life or family? just sayin.......

[EricPeterson]

what gives people the right to walk into a place of business and think they an tell them what to do with there products? and then get mad because the business doesn't follow suit. if you don't like it go somewhere else, easy as that. how would you like it if someone walked into your house or business and told you how to run your life or family? just sayin.......

I disagree in so far as I guess he should at least be able to approach the store owner and tell him what he doesn't like. Not all that effective to just stop shopping there with no explanation, at least the store owners will know why they are losing his business. You are right in that he cant force him do do anything outside of using his right as a consumer to shop elsewhere if the owner tells him no dice.

[LHanson]

what gives people the right to walk into a place of business and think they an tell them what to do with there products? and then get mad because the business doesn't follow suit. if you don't like it go somewhere else, easy as that. how would you like it if someone walked into your house or business and told you how to run your life or family? just sayin.......

That's a valid opinion. It's also better communication than a facepalm.

It's not hard to reach a compromise in this situation; just have a check-out line without possibly offensive magazines, just like some markets have candy-free lines. It's probably been said before, but this is a bit of a necro-thread.

[jnug]

That's a valid opinion. It's also better communication than a facepalm.

It's not hard to reach a compromise in this situation; just have a check-out line without possibly offensive magazines, just like some markets have candy-free lines. It's probably been said before, but this is a bit of a necro-thread.

your right about the face palm. it just doesn't make sense to tell a store how to do business. it's probably not gonna help with the stores attitude toward customers either. ever wonder when you ask a store employee a question or for help they give you a smart ass reply or are total jerks. because they have just been asked to remove Cosmo from the check out line.

another solution is not every check out isle has Cosmo in it, just find one that doesn't. there are also grocery stores that don't have cosmo in the check out isle, like the more healthier stores like Lowes, and EarthFare are some example of stores in my area that i don't see that stuff. they have magazines about healthy living and such. if you really want to show that store stop doing business with them and go to a store that doesn't have that.

my face palm was not necessary just like making a big deal about Cosmo to the store was not necessary and everybody went on the :boxer see my point now with the face palm. :console

[edwarddavis]

Don't ever leave Pittsboro NC. You may not like what's out there

[Jim S]

MuseCafeChris definitely has a future in relationship counseling.

:beer

[Jon Silberman]

son: "yea." (pause) "dad?"
dad: "yes, son?"
son: "what's an untamed va-jay-jay?"
dad: "well, dear, i'm not completely sure because i didn't read the article, but i think an untamed va-jay-jay is a vagina that still has all or most of it's pubic hair. you see, as you get older, your genitalia, or private parts, will grow a kind of thick hair called pubic hair. for some reason, in our society, but not all societies, many people consider it crude or uncivilized for women not to remove most or all of their pubic hair. does that answer your question?"
son: "yea. thanks, dad."
dad: "no problem, little fellow."

son: "dad?"
dad: "yes, sprout?"
son: (pointing to the female teenage cashier) "does she have an untamed va-jay-jay?"
dad: "i don't know. she has a vagina because she's female, but i don't know how she grooms it."
son: "oh." (pause) (pointing to the somewhat incredulous middle aged lady next in line) "what about her? does she have an untamed va-jay-jay?"
dad: "again, sweetie, i just don't know. i should mention that it's not really polite to discuss a strangers va-jay-jay, i mean vagina, in public. those things are considered somewhat personal, and many people are uncomfortable talking about them with people they don't know."
son: "ok, dad."

son: (pause) "dad?"
dad: "yes, super-boy?"
son: "well, if it's not polite to discuss a strangers vagina in public, how come they put that magazine that says 'untamed va-jay-jay' right here in the checkout isle?"
dad: "that's a very good question, son. a very good question. "
son: (pause) "dad?"
dad: "yes, super-boy?"
son: "well, if it's not polite to discuss a strangers vagina in public, how come they put that magazine that says 'untamed va-jay-jay' right here in the checkout isle?"
dad: "because this is the United States of America, it's a free country, the store owner has the right to sell that magazine here, and we have the right to think it's not polite and ignore it"

Whew.

[Bulldog]

Yep, every single issue has Sex, orgasm or something similar in bold right on the front.

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What are you going to do when he starts surfing the internet by himself? Good luck with those conversations! :messedup

Cause a kid knows what Sex and Orgasm mean. Sometimes, parents are so concerned with protecting their kids from things, that they forget that their kids have no idea what those things are anyways. ;)

Part of being a kid is discovery. Let them discover things. You might have some odd (and often embarrassing) moments along the way.. but that's what being a parent is about.

[StompBoxBlues]

Or take the argument the other way. Look to the victorians. Look to people that covered up piano legs, lest some sex-starved maniac get turned on by the piano legs, start thinking of womens legs.

We see it as ridiculous now, but even today, guaranteed there are a number of people with the same limits that would like to impose them.
We think "yeah...but when I was growing up, words like vagina weren't even printed in any mainstream media, now they say it on TV"...true.
Things even "innocent" shows like "Two and a half men" are so far beyond anything that would have been allowed in the 60's (or 70's)...

But it is a moving target. The problems with defining porn, etc. We know it "when we see it" but one mans porn is another's norm...

I think overly prudishness (by MY standard of course...) is a real sin. It is to become obsessed with rooting out "filth". I find that in more permissive places it seems and feels healthier.

I now live in Norway, and in the parks in summer and on the beaches it is pretty widespread that many women sunbathe topless. All kinds of women, including very beautiful women do it. It isn't a big deal. We guys don't stare (can't say we don't look sometimes..) and don't make a big deal and I don't notice any traumatized kids. In fact, because it is just "how it is" it sure seems to me (an american, who grew up in the midwest) that they don't take a lot of notice of it.

The suppression can often pique the interest way more than just time and place. What I mean is, sunning themselves is not a sexual come-on. It isn't a sexual setting, and is just to get sun.

Seems more healthy to me. But I can also see the line being SOME where...

[The Guy]

im not saying that our culture is an example of utopian living, but i do enjoy sex and i hope everyone can do the same.