So, Tesco have announced that they are changing the way they display tabloid newspapers in their stores to avoid corrupting the minds of our impressionable children with the horrifying pictures they print on their front pages. I was slightly surprised to read this news because, although I almost never look at the tabloids, I was pretty sure they didn’t print bums or boobs on the front pages. So I dropped by the news kiosk at the station on the way to work this morning.
There were no boobs or bums on the front pages of the newspapers. A couple of scantily clad ladies were waving from the front of the more seedy rags, but not a nipple or a hint of bum cleavage did I see. So I moved round the shelves, and here’s the odd thing; the shelves with the magazines about fishing, cycling, cars, motorbikes, tractors, football, model aeroplanes, tanks, model trains, photography etc, all aiming at a male demographic, showed almost no flesh at all. Even the soft porn magazines aimed at sweaty palmed, spotty teen boys were actually reasonably conservative, and the traditional girly magazines are now actually wrapped in an opaque cover obscuring everything but the title.
On the other hand, when I had a look at the trash magazines aimed at dull females. OK, Hello, Heat (sorry there are billions of titles, but I only know those three I think) there was cleavage and boobage a-go-go. Kim Kardashian seems to feature on the cover of about half the 50,000 titles available, mostly with huge amounts of bosom on display. I noticed Mel Sykes in a provocative bikini on one cover, and Katie Price letting everything hang out on another.
I don’t think there is a problem, but if there is, it’s not with the tabloid dailies.
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