WE ALL LOVE BOOBS BUT PLEASE, NOT BEFORE MY MORNING COFFEE HAR HAR HAR!!

I saw a magazine called 'Nuts' this morning on the news-stand at central station which featured as the covergirl a woman with monstrous fake breasts, covered only by a pair of nipple tassels.

Now porn has its place and porn will always have its place and blah, blah, blah, but is that place really next to the New Weekly and the Sydney Morning Herald, on clear display of every man, woman, child, grandparent, child, religious person, child, child, OR CHILD??

Lest I be labelled a prude I'd like to point out that I have no problem with nudity, or with children seeing nudity in print or in real life. Nudity is merely the lack of clothes. It is a state which many people seem to forget we are all in underneath the various shit we layer on. Sexualised nudity like massive fake breasts coupled with a come hither look and NIPPLE TASSLES, however, really should not be so clearly on display. Children just should not have to deal with that until they are older- it's creepy, and completely baffling to deal with, and most parents probably aren't emotionally equipped to explain that sort of thing clearly, because a child's brain isn't emotionally equiped to deal with that information. (Plus, imagine the sort of uproar there would be if a 40 year old man was on the cover of, say, Cosmo, with a sock on his penis. That would be perverted. We have some pretty deeply ingrained sexist double standards that most people fail to question).

I realise I probably sound like some Victorian harridan from the corps of Fred Nile but I really think this particular edition (or perhaps the newsagent, for displaying it in such a way) is crossing some sort of line. Again, porn will always be around, who cares, but when little girls are growing up wanting to be wank fodder, perhaps we do have a problem on our hands. That ambition really should be left to when they are "trying to pay their way through uni" (it's called centrelink ladies).

THA END OKTHNXBAI!!!!

I'm keen to know, what do you think?