Reply to: Lads mag or rapist?

[Churchill]

I don't like George Clooney

If he has you bent over the table you could always pretend it was someone else, he would.

[Spacecadet]

I don't like George Clooney

Give him a chance, he's not ignoring you, there's just a long list he has to get through

[norrahe]

I haven't even got a kitchen table!

I don't like George Clooney

[doodab]

"But are teenage boys and young men best prepared for fulfilling love and sex when they normalise views about women that are disturbingly close to those mirrored in the language of sexual offenders?"

Perhaps they should read cosmo instead.

Crazy Sex Positions - Hot Sex Moves - Cosmopolitan

[BrilloPad]

"There is a fundamental concern that the content of such magazines normalises the treatment of women as sexual objects. We are not killjoys or prudes who think that there should be no sexual information and media for young people. But are teenage boys and young men best prepared for fulfilling love and sex when they normalise views about women that are disturbingly close to those mirrored in the language of sexual offenders?"

So are we supposed to ban porn or something?

[Old Greg]

I haven't even got a kitchen table!

Ikea opens at 10.

[EternalOptimist]

I haven't even got a kitchen table!

[mudskipper]

To be honest I wouldn't be best pleased with either option.

I haven't even got a kitchen table!

[bless 'em all]

aye.

I mean, if that spotty geek from the end of the street burst into your kitchen, bent you over the table and slipped you one, you would want him hanged. and rightly so

but if it was George Clooney, you would probbly offer him a Nespresso Coffee so he could keep his strength up

and thats half the problem. Spotty geeks the world over think they are G Clooney

To be honest I wouldn't be best pleased with either option.

[gingerjedi]

aye.

I mean, if that spotty geek from the end of the street burst into your kitchen, bent you over the table and slipped you one, you would want him hanged. and rightly so

but if it was George Clooney, you would probbly offer him a herbal tea so he could keep his strength up

and thats half the problem. Spotty geeks the world over think they are G Clooney

Is it wrong to say LOL?

[Old Greg]

Ouch

That is quite difficult. Scary they are allowed to sell that perverse stuff.

Scary? This is the home of the anti-regulation free marketeers. If there is a market for it, surely they should be able to sell it.

What is scary is that people want to buy it. And the free market, of course.

[mudskipper]

mmmm

devils advocate here. but

we all have an idea about right and wrong.

we all agree that mugging old women is wrong.

I have NEVER heard of an old woman who said 'actually I quite like it. I even fantasise about it'

but when it comes to females, I know from personal experience that some have some very unusual ideas

Sure - and it's a valid point in that a man who's girlfriend wants such stuff realises it's perfectly normal and doesn't make her some sort of slut / pervert, but the language here doesn't exactly present this information in the context of a respectful relationship.

e.g.

"Girls love being tied up . . . it gives them the chance to be the helpless victim."

I'm sure most people have done this. Presented as: "It's fine to act out fantasies in the bedroom if you both want to" is good. Stating blankly that girls want to be helpless victims is dangerous. But, as said, the quotes are taken out of their context, so it's possible that the article did give a more balance.

[EternalOptimist]

Indeed. Although, to be fair, the quotes are taken out of context.

aye.

I mean, if that spotty geek from the end of the street burst into your kitchen, bent you over the table and slipped you one, you would want him hanged. and rightly so

but if it was George Clooney, you would probbly offer him a herbal tea so he could keep his strength up

and thats half the problem. Spotty geeks the world over think they are G Clooney

[mudskipper]

Indeed. Although, to be fair, the quotes are taken out of context.

[EternalOptimist]

Ouch

That is quite difficult. Scary they are allowed to sell that perverse stuff.

mmmm

devils advocate here. but

we all have an idea about right and wrong.

we all agree that mugging old women is wrong.

I have NEVER heard of an old woman who said 'actually I quite like it. I even fantasise about it'

but when it comes to females, I know from personal experience that some have some very unusual ideas