Originally Posted By trailsend <<>>Do people still subscribe to magazines?<<>> I love receiving my Southern Living and Coastal Living in my mail box each month. Besides, I'm not in the doctor's office that much and don't get to the library that often either.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Besides, anything that ain't a bill is a good piece o' mail, no?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Couple of points here (no pun intended). Bloona - the mags kind of rate in this way: Esquire & Men's Health etc. = PG (nice ladies) Maxim, FHM, Nuts etc. = 12 (Lingerie and suggestive photos) Playboy and Penthouse = 18 (Nudity, fairly tasteful) Tattler, Hustler etc. = XXX (explicit and sexual in their nature) And before anyone think me a pervert, I worked in a Newsagents when I was 16. These were kind of the guidelines for sales to agegroups. And John - we used to subscribe to two magazines - the Disney Magazine and Tales from the Laughing Place.
Originally Posted By bloona ^^ glad you filled us in on the sorce of your knowledge Dave, I WAS thinking you had done a survey! ;~O
Originally Posted By chickendumpling If Penthouse is *fairly tasteful* then things have changed A LOT since I was in college. LOL.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I'm going to have to agree with chickendumpling. There is no way Larry Flynt is getting any of my hard earned money.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I'll stick with subscriptions to Southern Living and Log Home Living magazines.
Originally Posted By JBStew I'm with Mrs. Elderp on this one. I wouldn't go screaming from the house, but I think it would change my opinion of a guy to find Playboy just lying around the house. I admit there is hypocrisy to this, but I don't care so much that he would have it, as that he would flaunt having it (or appear to be flaunting it). I sure wouldn't want it laying out casually around the kids. And frankly, the lame story of getting it for the articles would turn me off worse than just saying, "you know a friend of mine sent me this as a gift subscription." That would be more reasuring. Right now our biggest subscription nightmare is those THREE Family Life magazines that show up every month courtesy of Disney (and there will be a fourth one when Dug and I marry). What a waste.
Originally Posted By jdub <<Right now our biggest subscription nightmare is those THREE Family Life magazines that show up every month courtesy of Disney (and there will be a fourth one when Dug and I marry). What a waste.>> Why don't you just call Family Fun & have them fix things up? Or donate the extra copies to a library/preschool/whatever--you could even have the subscriptions transferred to such a place...
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy A few years ago I was at a yard sale glancing at items, and there was this stack of about 20 or 30 Playboys. The woman running the sale loudly piped up, "I bet you could those! Why don't you take 'em? They were my son's--I'll give ya the whole stack!" Well, feelin' labeled the neighborhood perv, I quickly purused the other items and awkwardly made my way.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I agree it is not in good taste to "flaunt" the girlie magazines by leaving them lying around. But basically there are two kinds of guys: 1) Those who look at porn (at least soft core) and admit it. 2) Those who look at it and don't admit it. I know women will never understand it and there is no reason why they should. They are not nearly as visually oriented in that area as men are. But frankly, to break up with a guy because you find a Playboy lying around is really rather silly in my opinion. P.S. Anyone who would buy a magazine when there is all the free stuff on the net should have their head examined. Maybe you would just be leaving him because he is stupid! ;-)
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter RoadTrip, I must respectfully disagree with you. There is a third category of men. . . those who don't look at any kind of porn, soft or otherwise. I'm married to one of them.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip ^^^ I find it very hard to believe that at some time or another he hasn't looked at Playboy (or Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit edition) type soft core stuff, but I will take your word for it. I must say I've never known a man personally who didn't take a peek here and there at some time in his life. You can't even go to 'R' rated movies without seeing stuff that qualifies as soft core.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP roadtrip, I agree with Pixie. I'm not saying that my husband has never seen it in his life, I'm just saying that he's made a deliberate effort to leave it in his childhood. I agree with you about the R rated movies. He doesn't watch Rs, or even PG-13s, ever. (I don't know his last R, but I know his last PG-13 was _For the Love of the Game_) I'm not saying there are alot of men like my husband's and Pixies, but they're there.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter ^^^Yep. I'm sure Mr. Glitter looked at Playboys or so forth when he was in his teens. But as an adult, he has made a conscious choice not to avail himself of pornography. As for R rated movies being soft core porn, I wouldn't necessarily agree. Some R rated movies, maybe. But most of them? I don't think so. Although, really, that's probably at least partially a subjective definition thing.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<You can't even go to 'R' rated movies without seeing stuff that qualifies as soft core.>> Have you watched any soap operas lately. Wow.
Originally Posted By trailsend And if you are on your way to WDW headed down I 75 South, along the merry way you'll come upon these huge signs stating: WE BARE ALL Then there will be: CAFE EROTICA which shows a few head shots of the ladies. I told my husband, "hmmmm, wonder where those girls come from way out here in the middle of nowhere. Bet they are something else."
Originally Posted By wendebird >>RoadTrip, I must respectfully disagree with you. There is a third category of men. . . those who don't look at any kind of porn, soft or otherwise. I'm married to one of them.<< I'm married to that third category as well Pixie.
Originally Posted By disney pete would it be frowned upon to enjoy eating at Hooters then they do a mean burger
