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Sex adverts in the retro gamer Poll

Dudley wrote:

Ah, the "slippery slope" arguement. Always a winner when you have no reasonable arguement.

So your saying complaing about the sex ads is not a valid one. Maybe you want them there then to phone all them.

Thats a good idea Sabreman perhaps Darren could make the sex pages on one leaf or as a pull out and then that would solve all the problems. Then we could pull them out and discard them before the kids look at the magazime.

Weblaus wrote:

Well, let's see. For once, I'd say that video game players are overwhelmingly male, likely aged somewhere between 15-30 years old

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Thats quite a sexist remark I have 2 neices 4 cousins (girls) 1 daughter 4 granddaughters who all play videogames.

I wasnt aiming anything at a specific magazine I was just generalising and giving retrogamer as an example.

I've just read an interesting article which states that a small amount of the profits of calls to chatlines goes to advertisers. I wonder if that then means magazines i.e. retrogamer gets that for putting those ads in. If so no wonder they are reluctant to get rid of the ads from the magazines. A sm...

You are of course joking here. Child abuse needs someone to commit the crime. Who is the abuser in this scenario? The line clearly marked for over 18s? The advertiser selling the ad clearly marked for over 18s? I never joke about something as serious as child abuse. If a child phones a chatline out...

Dudley I would also like to know where you got that figure from too

Hey you must be scottish right I almost sympathised with your argument until the last bit. I was thinking 'good for you - someone standing up for what they think is right' (however misguided it may be). Then you go and ruin it with your narrow-minded bigotry. . It was intended as a joke not as a ra...

so LeeT/Retrogamer what you are saying is you condone porn so you can save a few pence in buying retro gamer. Would you feel the same way if the ads were advertising sex lines which contained child porn. Would you think it still ok as long as you could save a few pence in buying retro gamer.

It seems as if retro gamer has now gone x-rate with ads in the latest issue for sex lines. Dont they realise that kids as well as aduts read this magazine and some kids may be tempted to even ring the numbers out of curiosity. These ads are always on after midnight on the tv so why then put them in ...

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