September 29, 2005
"Seventeen" Magazine Too Vaginal for Grocery Chain
Every Albertson's in Arizona, and 11 other states, will forego carrying Seventeen on the rack for the next several weeks.
A two-page layout called "Vagina 101" is the story provoking the ban. The magazine shows photos of real body parts.
Tucsonans had mixed reactions. "I can understand them saying a website - you can go to this website and find out more... But it's almost like pornography when it's actual pictures," Brandon McLaughlin, a student at the University of Arizona suggested.
"I don't think it's very graphic because anybody can see that anywhere," said another.
The article has a diagram of a vagina and photos of what the body part should look like if a young woman is healthy...what's normal, what's not normal...basically two pages dedicated to sexual education.
story via Unknown News
"...the October issue of the teen stalwart is giving us a horrible flashback to middle-school health classes and the overwhelming fear that someone will imminently wheel in a TV and VCR to show us “The Miracle of Life,” in which that skeevy tattooed couple lets PBS film their delivery.
All that said, “Anus: The opening of the rectum, where feces come out,” is the single best service-journalism sentence we’ve ever read."
scanned page /caption via Your Bodies, Yourselves, Your Scary Magazine | Gawker
Posted by Cieciel at September 29, 2005 05:44 AM