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Tempest (cw...@wi.leidenuniv.nl) wrote:

> Oh I do believe these ads offend people. Actually, the majority of them! A 
> magazine could actually review these CDs. But everyone knows already that 
> these will get horrible reviews, so why bother. But these ads don't offend me 
> because I know about sex, and sex is not bad or evil (I skip these ads because 
> I'm not interested in buying adult cds, I can get pornographic material from 
> usenet for free anyway). These ads serve a purpose...the mag gets more money 
> so that they can hire more writers etc. and increase the number of articles. 
> Of course the number of ads will increase too. Now, if the quality of the 
> reviews and articles stay the same I wouldn't be too worried. It would be 
> a shame (IMHO) if you would null your subscription just because of some ads 
> for adult CDs. There are several options concerning sex and kids. You could 
> discuss the subject with them...or you could see to it they do not know 
> ANYTHING about sex until they're 18! Boy, will they be shocked! Or you could 
> let your son's friends do all the talking for you.

That arguement does not make sense... You are trying to impose an
ideal setting in an uneralistic way... Some parents are not
comfortable talking to their children about sex... Whether or not you
agree with it, that is completely irrelevant... That is a simple
fact... So your idea that it wouldn't be a problem if parents talked
to their kids, may work well on Oprah and Phil, but in the real world,
it often doesn't happen this way...

Now getting back to the issue... I don't have children, I am 21 Years
old and am not married... I don't like those XXX ads simple because I
find them in bad taste for this particular magazine... If I want to
buy smut, I'll pick up Playboy or Penthouse... I don't want or need
smut, so I spend my money on CGW... There's a place for everything,
and everything has its place, and those ads DO NOT BELONG IN CGW... 


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Sean Kaye
2nd Year Arts
Carleton University

Email address: sk...@chat.carleton.ca
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