I believe that store owners should have a right to sell pornographic material. When it is sold in general stores or convenient stores such as 7-11 according to my own experiences always set apart from the rest of the store. They also a vast majority of the time have something covering the magazine cover. At 7-11 they keep the adult section behind the counter with these covers in front. I do not think that this provides an unsafe environment for children because firstly young children won't even be able to see over the counter. Secondly they won't see anything other than a woman's face which could be a magazine about anything. I don't think this should be any mother's pet peeve. If you go to any store you can surely see the cosmopolitan magazine, with highly suggestive articles advertised on the cover. For example as I searched google images for Cosmo's covers which included articles "69 surprising ways to make him hot for YOU forever" and "Naughty sex tricks" to name a few. Any child could openly read this magazine and see these adult orientated articles yet they aren't hidden or specially placed. I think it is quite the double standard because the way that pornographic material is covered it is much less suggestive to see the covered pornographic magazine than to read the cover of Cosmo.
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Steve,
It’s been great to hear more of your voice in class lately. This post is a very insightful elaboration of what we started to discuss in our Perilous Times unit. Pointing out the double standard contrasting a (largely hidden) magazine aimed primarily at men with a grocery checkout magazine aimed at women is a very sharp way to get us to examine the arbitrary nature of censorship. Nice ideas.
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