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A BRITISH RETAILER has told the publishers of so-called ‘lads’ mags’ to put the magazines in modesty bags – or it won’t sell them.
In a statement, the Co-operative Retail Trading Group has requested that the publishers put the magazines in sealed modesty bags or they will be withdrawn from sale in over 4,000 of the Co-operative Group’s stores.
The company introduced opaque screens on its own supermarket magazine shelves this month as an interim measure, which it says it will use until the modesty bags obscuring the front cover are used.
Deadline
It made the appeal to the publishers of Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo, giving them until 9 September to deliver the magazines to them in the sealed bags.
The Sport newspaper has already agreed to deliver all of its editions to Co-operative stores in the bags from 9 September, following pressure from the retailer.
The retail store said:
The Co-operative is taking the action in response to growing concerns by its members, customers and colleagues over exposure of children to the overt sexual images on these front covers which, despite the retailer’s best efforts, are still sometimes visible in-store.
Steve Murrells, Chief Executive Retail for the Co-operative Group, said they had listened to the concerns of their customers and members, “many of whom say they object to their children being able to see overt sexual images in our stores”.
He said that while they have tried to mitigate the likelihood of young children seeing the images with a number of measures in-store, “the most effective way of doing this is for these magazines to be put in individual, sealed modesty bags”.
The UK’s Minister for Women and Equalities, Jo Swinson MP, said:
Exposing children to lewd pictures that portray women as sex objects is not appropriate. That’s why the Co-operative’s decision to implement the Bailey review recommendation for publications with overtly sexual images on the cover to be displayed and sold in modesty bags is very welcome.
She said that while adults should be “left to make their own decisions about what legal sexual images they look at”, the place for lads’ mags “is not next to the sweets at children’s eye-level”.
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I be more worried about their victims’ waiting times
Who is caring for/monitoring that woman while she is on bail?
Waiting time for mental health services for the general public is hugely long, why should prisoners be any different?
This government couldn’t care less about the mental health of its people.
@Carm(Orange Vampire): would you really want dangerous people becoming more unwell and even more dangerous! Stemming the progression at the earliest onset is in everyone’s best interest, prisoners and ours
@Jason: most prisoners are on a trajectory that the basic help provided through the prison services is not going to help long term
@Carm(Orange Vampire):
How is every single thing in this country a disaster/over crowded/under funded/long waiting lists etc etc?
Why can nothing run smoothly?
A great little country for American multinationals and hedge funds and a lousy one for its citizens.
@Ronaldo Blanc: hear hear
@Ronaldo Blanc: If these American multinationals were not here we would still be going around on horse and cart and you would have nuns and priests running run down old dilapidated hellholes that nobody would dare visit…..who do you think are paying the bills?, the farmers lol…..kop on and think just a little before you point the finger. Its our rotten government that have the country a mess, them and their public service buddies and private sector criminals creaming every last drop out of the place….
@Ronaldo Blanc: It’s citizens are responsible for the mess they’re in because it’s citizens continue to vote the same degenerates in to govern them. People have to take responsibility for their actions and Irish voters are responsible for voting in the government. You can’t blame corrupt politicians for being corrupt when corruption is all they have demonstrated since the state came into existence. The blame falls squarely on the voters who continually put them in a position to exercise their corrupt ways and “cream every last drop out of the place”. So if Irish people want someone to blame for their woes they need only look in a mirror.
As for American multinationals; since we have no indigenous industry worth a mention we need to generate income some other way and this means prostituting ourselves out to whoever is willing to pay. Thanks to our corrupt politicians this has historically been American multinationals.
It’s not ok to not be ok in Ireland because Ireland inc can’t help you
@Tony Henry: Mental health is way down the government’s list of priorities and they don’t give a flying f***. Ask any parent of a child on a waiting list for a MH service and you’ll see. They just don’t care.
Would like to take issue with your headline of “prisoners with severe conditions” these are people with Mental Heath issues in dire need of Help where they should be classed as “patients” where the services they need are been Starved of resources
@Eamonn Tierney: while they are in prison they are still prisoners. If they move to the CMH they then become patients.
How is every single thing in this country a disaster/over crowded/under funded/long waiting lists etc etc?
Why can nothing run smoothly?
Typical Banana Republic Of Ireland!
An absolute joke of a country!
When the poor, the mentally ill and former prisoners begin to vote regularly, things will change. Politicians feel no pressure to protect these groups.
I was brought up very close to Dundrum ‘Asylum’ as it was called back then. It was a dark dank place to visit and a dangerous one. It was done up and improved but there is always the risk of a sudden burst of violence and some of these people are so ill, that they will kill. Hence not the nicest of environments to work in.
I believe that many political prisioners are psycopaths just as laypeople who are killers are and I believe in Ireland that Mental illness is way down the list of priorities infact a lot of funding has been taken away from Day Centres and call in centres which are preventative, but our Govt is longterm stupid and short term wise.
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