You can't sell Maxim!

[StevieJD]

OK, raise of hands ... who wouldn't have gotten laid in college if it weren't for alcoholic sluts?

Oh, that was the trick.

[Titi]

I grew up as a military brat back in the 60's and 70's.

Ever been to the Base Exchange?

Whole rows of "adult" reading materials, as far as the eye can see, all for your viewing pleasure.

And you only got carded when you tried to purchase the goods.

Them teenage years were mighty good.

And still is that way to this day. (at least the last time I went to PX on West Point which was in december.) some of them have the plastic wrap from the manufacturers on them but the others open to anyone who wanted to look.

[iviles]

I grew up as a military brat back in the 60's and 70's.

Ever been to the Base Exchange?

Whole rows of "adult" reading materials, as far as the eye can see, all for your viewing pleasure.

And you only got carded when you tried to purchase the goods.

Them teenage years were mighty good.

So your the one that hid all those playboys in that couches when I worked furniture Just joking. But yeah it always makes me laugh when I worked there we had parents complaining that they sold the girls gone wild videos and playboy. Just so happened that the loudest complainers son got caught with his girlfriend in the changing rooms. Maybe instead of complaing about what we sold she should have been watching her kid instead!

[rerant]

Geeze, what did Blender ever do to anyone?

[Boochan]

Thats interesting.
Guess we have a whole lot more liberal old people here.. as when I've toured our interstates here in Australia (trucking routes.. also used by the grey army in their RVs) most of the Roadhouses (due to the remoteness of the highways, towns can be several hundred miles apart) have hardcore porn in plain sight next to the counter.. don't know how they get away with it.

Nonetheless, I haven't ever heard someone complain about risque material in a newsagency/drug store/newspaper stand, and lads/mens mags are always in plain sight, as well as other special interest mags that could be considered risque. Anyways, these people have nothing better to do as they wait to die off I guess... then again, when I'm in store and we don't know someone is there/they've just walked in and we are chatting and we utter mild swears during it (crap, etc) some of us give them real foul looks, and either become SCs or just walk out their and then.. these folks should go on a peak hour train with a whole heap of whigger kids on it.. then they'd realize that a couple of very mild, acceptable swears are a bit better then the big C word been used a few times every minute.

[Scotlers]

I know how this goes. When I worked at B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble, I had to deal with all sorts of people who thought we shouldn't carry certain magazines or books.

If they were nice about it, I would tell them that if they had a problem with a book or magazine, to talk to a manager, as I couldn't take something off the floor without the manager's or corporate's approval.

However, if they were being really sucky or rude, I would simply point out to them that they were not our only customer and we carried a wide variety of items to please a large number of people. And if it truly offended them, they were free to take their business elsewhere.

[powerboy]

I have been scolded once. I was at Barnes and Noble looking at the magazines. And this old Bitty came up and started in how I should not be looking at that type of magazine. The magazine that I was looking at was a WWE Magazine. When I turned the page, it just happened to have Mickie James in a bikini(mmmm). I simply told that woman that I am an adult, and that I can look at whatever I wanted. She walked off complaining.

[Rapscallion]

Seriously, if you don't like it don't look at it!

Of course, if you really do like it, you're probably fourteen-years-old.

"Have your grandkids ever been to a beach?"

They'll see the same thing, if not more, at any beach than they will in an issue of Maxim.

Not on any of the beaches I've been to, more's the pity.

Rapscallion

[xaenon]

The store where I used to work had several adult magazines, but all were kept
behind the checkout counter, and you had to ask specifically for them. And the
first thing I'd ask for would be ID, if the customer looked younger than 30.

However, we, too, used to get such demands from the prudish types that we
remove such 'objectionable' material. I always used to reply to such demands:

"Yeah, controlling what others could and couldn't read worked real well for the
Hitler and Stalin, too."

"Well, you know that any PATRIOTIC American citizen cherishes the Constitutional Right of free press, and the right to read whatever he or she wishes."

"Yeah, well, I don't see anyone with a gun to your head forcing you to look at
them - by the way, the door is OVER THERE."

All three statements are valid arguments to such tactics. It doesn't make the
customer any happier, but by the time it gets to this point, I really don't care
anymore.

One woman was absolutely outraged at that Hitler/Stalin crack and threw a
monumental hissy fit. Seems she didn't like being compared to communists.
To which I replied: Well, then, maybe you shouldn't adopt THEIR policies. Sieg
Heil, baby....

The owner wasn't too pleased at my handling of this, but I will absolutely NOT
bow to censorship and I told him so. I NEVER forgave 7/11 for caving in to these
fundie types and yanking Playboy, et al, off their shelves. Note that didn't stop
me from getting my nudie mags, just meant that I wasn't spending my money at
7/11.

[zzapp the witch]

Maxim is a men's magazine?

[cinema guy]

"Well, you know that any PATRIOTIC American citizen cherishes the Constitutional Right of free press, and the right to read whatever he or she wishes."

...and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist.

[karath]

"Well, you know that any PATRIOTIC American citizen cherishes the Constitutional Right of free press, and the right to read whatever he or she wishes."

...and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist.

Beautiful!

[Lingering Grin]

Maxim is a men's magazine?

They talk about condoms, cars, and have about a dozen half-naked girls per issue.


Ya... it's a men's magazine

[StevieJD]

So your the one that hid all those playboys in that couches when I worked furniture Just joking. But yeah it always makes me laugh when I worked there we had parents complaining that they sold the girls gone wild videos and playboy. Just so happened that the loudest complainers son got caught with his girlfriend in the changing rooms. Maybe instead of complaing about what we sold she should have been watching her kid instead!

You ONLY complaining about the hidden playboy in the furniture?

Then it wasn't me.

[Becks]

Some people have way too much time on their hands.