‘36D? So what? Is that all that you’ve got?’
18 May 2005 @ 14:50
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A couple of weeks ago, in the ‘Sunday Times’ News Review section, the columnist (and occasional ‘Grumpy Old Woman’) India Knight wrote a very interesting article—Porn By Any Other Name, 08/05/2005—on modern men’s magazines and ’sex’ as represented by them. The article was about Tesco’s decision to put ‘lad’s mags’ (the 1990s phenomenon of mags for men about sex, booze, fashion, cars, sport and breasts in general, which seemed to come out in force as a ‘reaction’ to women becoming more confident and entering ‘male’ spheres — and because of the awful ‘ladette’ culture of the time) on the top shelf. This would place them with the magazines and videos we would usually call more blatant pornography — the hardcore stuff. She made the interesting point that magazines such as ‘FHM’, ‘Nuts’ and ‘Zoo’ (Why ‘Zoo’?! Is it so called because it normally houses animals?!) are allowed to sport front cover pictures, and, indeed, articles inside, that would normally be relegated to the ‘top shelf’. |
