When you see an offensive image

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Say you walk into a Supermarket,Fuel station,clothes store etc and you see a poster on the wall or magazine
within eyesight of a child that is sexually suggestive bordering on pornagrafic,do you
  • Explain to the attendant how it offends you and ask for it to be removed
  • Think to yourself it shouldn’t be there,maybe someone else will ask for it to be removed
  • Just ignore it
  • Feel too embarrassed to ask but regret it somewhat later.
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I don’t give magazines at check-out counters ever any notice and am usually immersed in deep thought.
If I am being brutally honest with myself, I would feel embarrassed to bring it up.
 
I would mention that I’m not comfortable with such material, especially if the figures depicted on the cover page are almost fully nude. But usually this won’t lead to the supermarket removing the magazines, not unless a majority of its customers complain about it
 
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I guess having small children this makes you aware of what could be a danger.If I walk past, my conscience makes me go back and say something even if my heart is pounding.I’m never comfortable doing it and have had success and failure
 
Both that and very suggestive.No,often they can be in your face .Very suggestive is too much for a child.
Last week there was one in my local Christian second hand shop ,large and up high .The lady serving was happy to have it removed .
 
Had trouble making it a poll,think it’s up and running now 😊
 
I would never speak to the attendant. Always speak to the manager if there is one.
If too embarrassed perhaps can ring them afterwards. Or send a letter if you really want to be anonymous. Or complain to the relevant authorities.
 
Not long ago I asked a catholic second hand thrift shop to remove Shades of Grey,that was racey enough.And they did.
Most attendants that I ask are very helpful .Sometimes I do speak with the managers.
 
Some of the ads are only pornographic to those of us who understand the metaphor. There is a lot of it here in Europe so I just ignore it.
If I had kids I would like them to ignore ads altogether. I would wish they understand that ads do not present products they, try to trick you into buying things so you can become addicted to (like me…yeah). And I dunno I would use some metaphor about kings and queens (the kids) who, some evil rival with no right to their throne and inheritance, is trying to enslave with shiny colorful chains to steal their throne.
I worry more when I see obviously pagan satanic posters with nothing that can be proven ill fit to public display and I wonder if they work and demons come out of them. But I would never tell that to a kid because I wouldn’t want them to be afraid, to grow in fear.
 
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I just ignore it and look away. Looking at the magazines in the checkout aisle is very dangerous for a christian. If I’m not careful I could fall into lust, so I make sure to look at something else.
 
But it was a catholic shop. What about other locations like.a.supermarket? You would probably be asked to be decent and not disturb public order.
 
I’ve been treated with respect,I will ask politely and quietly.
Often there is positive feedback along with the removal.
And I’m also thanking those who don’t stock the gross stuff,or at least have it out of view .
 
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😅 as I mentioned ,my heart thumps …and sometimes my voice croaks,but I feel I just have to do it.I don’t want to.But I’m always glad I did
 
I want to let others know it can make a difference ,even if it’s just in asking that one person…it could get them thinking.
I live where there are no pro life billboards,if they went up they would be down the next day.But overly suggestive images are every where when I travel to the city.I don’t want to accept it .
 
That was one example of racey CD,the name is pretty well know by young kids.It was enough to know kids would pick that up out of curiosity.
The poster last week was 1metrex 90cm two people entwined with too much exposed .
I know what is too much for a child ,and too much for us.
 
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I don’t give magazines at check-out counters ever any notice and am usually immersed in deep thought.
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Like the knocked out stormtrooper said I don’t notice, but in my case it’s because I shop like a stereotypical dude: get in, get what I need, get the heck out. Like the unrepentant cheapskate I am, it’s as much for economic reasons as it is for the fact that I LOATHE shopping for anything.

Nonetheless, my son is 4 and will eventually notice. The Holy Spirit has always provided me me answers to give in little boy language for tough questions . Perhaps I should be more proactive and point it out to him to teach the virtue of modesty over the sin of making bodies a commodity for advertising.
 
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Maybe it’s because I don’t have kids, but I’ve never felt a need to be the world’s offensive image nanny.

If a shop has stuff up that I find truly offensive, which would generally have to be something beyond one girlie magazine or calendar and be more like a whole wall of stuff, I vote with my dollars and don’t shop there.
 
Shop at Costco and Aldi and Trader Joe’s. Voila! Kids never get an eyeful.
 
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