When you see an offensive image

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You’re assuming it is good to “protect” children from risqué pictures instead of just teaching them that smut is in the world, we look away and if necessary we take our dollars to another shop.

Sometimes “protecting” kids or hiding stuff from their sight just makes them three times as interested in seeing whatever it is that Mommy thought was so awful. If Mommy didn’t flip out at seeing the picture, then the kid might well have just ignored it.
 
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My four had a wonderful childhood being kids for the right amount of time,being exposed to more suggestive images wouldn’t have helped .Perhaps it’s different in the city where you are bombarded and become immune.
 
There is no telling,only asking politely ,and being taken seriously.Maybe we relate to one another differently over here.
 
I don’t recall that it has ever happened to me. It seems like the supermarket used to have Cosmopolitan (and less racy magazines) next to the checkout, but either they have removed it or I have become selectively blind to it.

I think I would mention it to the cashier or manager if it were really outrageous.

I wouldn’t say “I am offended” or even “It is offensive,” but rather “That might offend some customers.”
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
You’re assuming it is good to “protect” children from risqué pictures instead of just teaching them that smut is in the world, we look away and if necessary we take our dollars to another shop.

Sometimes “protecting” kids or hiding stuff from their sight just makes them three times as interested in seeing whatever it is that Mommy thought was so awful. If Mommy didn’t flip out at seeing the picture, then the kid might well have just ignored it.
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This is wise. In general, nudity isn’t something that kids find shocking unless we teach them to. And we shouldn’t teach them too. However, sexually provocative poses are something kids are not ready for, and obviously pornography is something no one is ever ready for.
 
I must be shopping at the PG grocery stores. I have never seen anything so graphic at the register that I felt I needed to complain or sheild my child’s eyes. Wait. That isn’t entirely, true. I have seen some customers in line who shouldn’t have left the house looking like that. But that is probably another thread. In those cases, we just laugh a little and discuss later, once we get to the car.
 
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It seems like the supermarket used to have Cosmopolitan (and less racy magazines) next to the checkout, but either they have removed it
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A lot of parents complained during the 1970s because the stuff on covers then was racier than most of what we see in USA today. Supermarkets pretty much universally took the edgy stuff away from the checkouts and they used to sell Playboy and Penthouse from behind little wooden privacy shields that a guy who wanted to buy the magazine could lift to see the cover.

I wish I could say this helped me to grow up to be a nice moral person, but all it did was make me really curious to know what exactly was in all of these magazines. During college, I was a regular reader of Cosmo, Playboy, and Penthouse. I will say that by the time I was in college, styles had changed so while Cosmo still had boo koo sex articles, the models on the front tended to be a lot more covered, to the point where I was able to buy one or two dresses I saw on the front and wear them out without feeling overly exposed.
 
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