I used to get this, along with Maxim, Bizzare, Loaded, Viz and a whole slew of other magazines back in the day, they flooded the market but they were alright, the only other thing around was GQ and a few other magazines which were just a collection of adverts for very expensive designer stuff and articles on random things I didn't care about. These magazines were actually blamed for a rise in suicides in young males in the UK. Apparently reading about fast cars, expensive watches, the latest gadgets, top jobs and beautiful women while sitting alone in your bedsit eating pot noodles was bad for your mental health.
Because readers can now find QUOTE "The party's over, lads. FHM, the bloke-culture magazine that once revelled in a cocksure mix of sex, gags, grog and gadgets, has succumbed to rapidly rising indifference and called it a day. UNQUOTE. on the net !
I think it is less concentrated on the internet and you get other opinions filtering in. With the magazines it was all the same message from cover to cover, pretty intense. At least with the internet you can look up the latest gadgets and an hour later you can be reading about sterling engines or fruit flies, depending on how easily distracted you are. As for the commodification of women, it is the poor models I feel sorry for, now they are going to have to earn a living fully dressed, probably have to work full time as well! They were a bit distracting though and a bit pointless as well. If males wanted to stare at half dressed women there were more specialised magazines right next to the Lads Mags and not much more expensive either. The internet did kill them off though, pretty much started when the magazines started doing articles on the funny videos or the bizzare websites, everyone put down the magazines to look at the websites and then just never picked them up again. No real loss, they filled a niche until broadband became readily available.
I can report that in the around 30's age bracket it's turning us into happy deviants - over to you fish for the under 25's
Some very disturbing reports on sexual behaviours of young people who are copying the acts in porn movies, with no idea of context and assuming that such is 'normal' (more specifically, anal sex, directed ejaculation, etc). I have zero concern if people wish to pursue copycat sex but when porn is treated as some sort of learning guide or manual, then I wonder about its open availability. btw I oppose all censorship, but not restricted access for minors. In fact I'd like to see porn included in literature studies at school so that children understand exactly what influences they are being exposed to when they look at this sort of material.
Yes, it's interesting that the general nastiness of pedophilia seems to have eradicated rational thought in some quarters.
I blame society's hangups with sex personally. although I personally don't care about them really (society's hangups). I remember deciding to check out Californication specifically because the Catholic Church was protesting it. If the Catholics are complaining about something it must be good.
Haha, exactly. If someone paid me lots of money to take my clothes off so women could ogle at the photos I would jump at it. Supply of women willing to take their clothes off is probably too high now. It was fine way back when not many wanted to do it, so that those who would, could probably make a decent living. Now everyone is willing to and the supply of women is too high. Unless you are already famous or in the news for some reason you're not likely to get as much. No wonder some want to portray it as "commodification". Idea being to scare as many women away as possible so the ones left get more work. Classic supply/demand behaviour.
Women themselves have been the leaders in that department all along. Go buy a womens weekly or any one of the other 500 mags that want to sell you hunreds of dollars worth of makeup and portray you in a short skirt next summer. Women have sold themselves off as sex objects ever since someone discovered that red clay could tint lips and make a mouth look more sensual.
You are describing an enforced vanity that many women continue with out of habit, after all they know that it is highly likely that no man will love and care for them if no other men find them attractive also.
Possibly, but they embrace it without complaint whereas magazines portraying busty young girls are denegrated as evil, and for no reason other than they percieve younger women as a threat to their security like they see the lack of makeup a threat. But this reason cannot be stated so instead the cry of exploitation is raised. Men don't agree with that and this leads to a lot of guilt and secrecy that is in turn branded as abberant behavior. Lies inevitably result in the creation of other lies. Our entire society is built on lies and one must expect there to be a flow on effect.
