WOMAN LETTERS.
Last week we published an article denouncing the soft-porn content of some men's magazines. Here is the response:I believe you over-stepped the line when you labelled FHM a mucky magazine.
Jane Johnson (Woman Editor) should invest in a dictionary so she can find the definition of "naked", because I fail to see how this applies to Catherine Zeta Jones in the August edition. Revealing, certainly. Naked, no chance.
I can only speak for this men's magazine as I have never purchased any other, but to label FHM as pornographic is absurd.
As deputy editor Grub Smith said, women help to sell the magazine because sex sells, especially to new and potential readers.
Ian Jones, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glam
On reading your article, I must agree and sympathise with the tacky and odious way these magazines are sold.
I am 46, non-promiscuous and a family man. The pictures are not what strike me, but the graphic innuendo of cover lines, which are straightforward pornography.
People must be pretty hard-up to shell out for these magazines - maybe even desperate.
There has to be a stage in a person's development when they can accept their sexuality for itself and realise the responsibility is theirs. I feel that any magazine used to shout graphic sexual innuendos should be sold in a sealed package with only its title visible.
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I noticed your outburst on men's "glamour" magazines.
I got the impression you don't like women's bodies with your remarks about nipples.
I have been a naturist since 1964 and find these glamour pictures quite boring.
To belittle women's bodies with remarks about "breasts popping out of swimsuits" and "cupped hands hiding nipples" is rather juvenile. Criticising the human anatomy is unkind and shameful. We are just brothers and sisters, young or old.
Colin Banks St Albans, Herts
As South African visitors, my colleagues and I all agree with you that women are becoming more self-confident and assertive (Jane Johnson's column, July 24).
Recently in Pretoria, we saw a violent mugger tackled by a crowd of angry girls. The criminal was sent sprawling on to his back and several large women sat on top of him until the police arrived.
It was really a brilliant citizen's arrest and I wonder if you agree that perhaps there's a Jekyll and Hyde in all of us in adversity?
Catherine Suzman Johannesburg, S Africa
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| Title Annotation: | Features |
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| Publication: | The Mirror (London, England) |
| Date: | Jul 31, 1996 |
| Words: | 400 |
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