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Re: About the CGW sex ads whiners

#2581
From: c.pi... Charles Pinady
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 00:00
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In <402b12$l...@news.xs4all.nl> Jojo <jo...@xs4all.nl> writes: 
>
>bad...@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>>But it just is *so* low-class. Why not have these ads in magazines like
>>"Playboy" where the readers WANT this sort of thing? You don't see these
>>ads in "Scientific American" do you? 
>
>Tell me, why are advertisements dealing with sex so "low-class"?
>I enjoyed sex yesterday, and I enjoy games today. What makes one more 
>"higher-class" than the other?
>
>If you don't want to see sex ads in a magazine, then just turn the page. 
>Is that so hard? Just read the things you want to read and don't read the 
>other stuff. Whooooaah, now that's a biiiig problem for some of you, 
>isn't it? <include sarcasm here>  People who think sex ads are
offensive 
>have enjoyed an unhealthy education and need treatment. They secretly 
>enjoy the ads, they feel ashamed and they want to get rid of them to 
>purify themselves. Yuk!  The sex ads mean nothing to me, so I just
turn 
>the pages. Yes, I actually found out that you *don't* need to read an 
>*entire* magazine from cover to cover. You *are* allowed to skip a few
pages!
>
>And to those people who complain about their kids reading CGW:
>1) The magazine is not written for 10 year olds. I have yet to find
the 
>   first 10 year old to praise the intelligent reviews of this
magazine.
>2) If you want to hide the fact that sex exists in this world, while
at 
>   the same you time you happily want your kid to read about wargames,

>   then *you* are the one with a big education problem, and your kid
will
>   not be grateful to you in the end.
>
>This world has a BIG attitude problem. War is fun, but sex is filthy.
>
>The sex ads help CGW to raise money. They use this money to make a
good 
>magazine. Take it or leave it.
>
>Bunch of whiners.
>
>Jurgen.
>

Have you ever considered that parents are not always around to watch
what kids read in their homes? Are parents supposed to keep their copy
of CGW under lock and key? I don't have kids but after reading some of
the postings by other people with kids, I can understand where they are
coming from about sex ads in computer gaming magazines.
 
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Date: 1995/08/06
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