Lads’ mags should be rated

It’s good news for all feminists out there who have campaigned long and hard for lads’ mags to be reviewed in the manner that they are marketed and stocked in shops.

MPs have stated that magazines featuring sexually explicit photographs should carry cinema style age ratings to warn the public about their content.

MPs Ann Widdecombe and Sir Menzies Campbell called on shopkeepers to get responsible and avoid placing lads’ mags with graphic content on the front covers in view of children and young adolescents, as they fear that those exposed to such material are not emotionally equipped to deal with it.

They have called for a review on the current guidelines for publications with sexually explicit content to consider whether they should be concealed in bags rather than placed on the top shelf of the newsagents.

The MPs have suggested that these sorts of publications should have a cinema style rating system. This would mean that pornography would carry an age rating of 18 years and publications containing topless images would carry an age rating of 15+ years.