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lizziedog1

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Lately it seems as though hunting and shooting magazines are getting more ads for sexual products. They have ads for instructional videos and pills and all sorts of things. Is anyone else bothered by this, or am I just an old prude?

I am starting to teach my grandson about shooting and hunting. He wil be 12 next month. I am getting worried about showing him some of these magazines.

I have always equated hunting with a pure and simple way of life. I am for free enterprise and therefore feel that they can run any advertisement they with. However, I also have the right to cancel my subsciption.
 
Unfortunately in our society, sex, sells. Ads, sexual aids anything related to the subject. What's really sad is, these magazine and television people would sell their souls to the devil himself make a buck. :(
 
I totally agree with you. But hasn't hunting always been an American tradition that was suppose to be as pure as apple pie. This seems to cross some sort of line that shouldn't have been.
 
The lines of "decency" and "offensive" are not set in stone. Many of the things done fifty years ago were looked down upon by those who'd grown up half a century earlier. How dare a woman show her ankles in public!

It's all relative. The wierd thing is that in this issue of G&A the only ads that include scantily clad women are the myriad of ones for Viagra, Cialis, and other ED drugs.
 
Small Arms Review doesn't have pornographic ads. But it does have lots of articles and pictures of machineguns that will make your kid say "Gramps when are you going to buy one?" :p
 
Go All The Way

Sex does sell. The gun magazines might as well go all the way now, no pun intended.

They should have a centerfold of a naked, hot babe, showing off the latest firearm. Hunting magazines could have naked chicks pose across the carcass of a deer or laying on the ground next to a dead bear. Imagine the connection with gun lubricants.:D
 
Advertising is just getting more blatant these days. Anybody remember the gunsmithing correspondence course ad that used to to in every other gun rag many years ago? The one with the guy showing a rifle to a female customer. He's leering and holding the rifle up at an angle. What was that all about?

:rolleyes:
 
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Is that what they are calling pornographic movies these days?

I for one have given up on several periodical publications including newspapers because of the aforementioned advertisements.

If you don't like it then don't buy it. Money is the only language they understand.
 
Sex adds= another liberal value :D It would be funny to advertize some sort of religion in their favorite publications:D :eek: :rolleyes: but then you are paying to keep their magazine going. Heck maybe them paying to advertise in gun magazines helps promote guns. Or they are trying to make sure conservatives don't let their kids see the gun books thus keeping the intrest down in guns.

Or maybe I am full of crap and it's all about money:D The motives for actions are always suspect:eek:

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Are you guys really shocked that a publication with a primarily male audience ends up with a lot of sex related advertising? Are you not members of the same gender that sent Sports Illustrated subscriptions through the roof after the introduction of the Swim Suit annual?


Sex sells, most especially to YOU, the typical gun magazine buyer. I'd have a lot more patience for this sort of prudery and BS about "family values" if the average US male even began to demonstrate them.

Looking at the US adultery rates, the average age males begin having sex and the size of the pornagraphy industry, I'd say very few of you have any real reason to get all teary-eyed about Family Values. Like Victorians, "upright" Americans seem to get really worked up when anyone treats them as they actually behave.
 
Sex sells, most especially to YOU, the typical gun magazine buyer. I'd have a lot more patience for this sort of prudery and BS about "family values" if the average US male even began to demonstrate them.

Looking at the US adultery rates, the average age males begin having sex and the size of the pornagraphy industry, I'd say very few of you have any real reason to get all teary-eyed about Family Values. Like Victorians, "upright" Americans seem to get really worked up when anyone treats them as they actually behave.
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Porn is alot like drug addiction, it may start with sports illustrated but ends up hard core if it's available. Same as marijuana is a gateway drug to harder crap. It isn't prudery it is common sense to keep it from your family as long as possible or at least till they can make a good decision with lots of information on both sides of an issue.

Funny you list the size of adultry rate and porn together but you don't see they are related. Porn causes adultery and you proved it with what you posted. Cause and effect of porn and drugs are obviouse if you don't try to hide them with human nature. Like some people use guns in extemes to murder so will the weaklings use drugs and porn for their pleasure.

Yes it's their right to do so and it isn't Victorian to say it will lead to no good. Hell even a fool can see the problems we have because of liberty without common sense.

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Are you guys really shocked that a publication with a primarily male audience ends up with a lot of sex related advertising? Are you not members of the same gender that sent Sports Illustrated subscriptions through the roof after the introduction of the Swim Suit annual?

Sex sells, most especially to YOU, the typical gun magazine buyer. I'd have a lot more patience for this sort of prudery and BS about "family values" if the average US male even began to demonstrate them.
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My dad subscribed to Sports Illustrated when I was a kid. Three issues later, the swimsuit edition came out. Dad cancelled his subscription, and wrote an icy-cold, polite letter to the editor explaining why. To my knowledge my dad never had pornography in our home. Ever. He and my mom are celebrating their 45th anniversary this spring.

Don't accuse people-in-general of hypocrisy -- you don't know what the OP is or is not willing to tolerate in his home. All you've got to go by is his words, and from that, you know, he could be someone like my dad.

So what if the "average US male" does this or does that or does this other thing? Your post pretty well assumed that every man is the average!

pax
 
"Porn causes adultery and you proved it "

Do you mean there wasn't any adultery before the invention of the printing press, the camera, the television, the vcr and the internet? Dang, I never knew. ;)

If this condition persists for more than 4 hours please call your doctor. :)

I don't mind an attractive woman or two in an ad, in fact I insist on it, but I'm tired of poorly posed ads featuring smirking, drooling and leering people.

John
 
Do you mean there wasn't any adultery before the invention of the printing press, the camera, the television, the vcr and the internet? Dang, I never knew.
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Yep they used to stone you to death for adultrey:D Kinda took the fun out of it huh:) I suppose you can't see the corelation between all the influences you spoke of and the increase in all the behavior that breaks down the family.
It's ok with me though as I believe in freedom and people have the right to ruin their lives.:cool:

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I think some of you missed my jist.


I think the talk of "family values" is dishonest, because it isn't even behavior that could be said to be practiced by the majority of American males.


We can do the "present company excepted" thing, but I think many of these protests for "decency" come just as much from the Newt Gingrichs and Rush Limbaughs of the world.

Pornagraphy is older than written language. Sexual prudery is fairly new, and US citizens are some of the worst prudes in the first world, always going off about the debilitating effects of exposure to our own biology.



I have never cheated on my wife, used an illegal substance or even drank enough for a hangover, but I don't think any of that means I get to head up the Moral Police or get all weepy when other people don't act the same as I.

Much of our societal problems comes from the way we demonize behavior, rather than adapt to it. Teen pregancy rates in less "moral" countries are lower than here.

Maybe we could ban sexy ads and start a "War on Porn". The other wars have proved so effective in changing human behavior. This would be the kind of prime thinking our finest prudes are always coming up with.
 
Sexual prudery is fairly new, and US citizens are some of the worst prudes in the first world, always going off about the debilitating effects of exposure to our own biology.
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Now that is true.
 
Handy ~

Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm agin' any more laws, especially stupid & unenforceable ones!

But as a responsible individual who actually believes all the "BS" (your word) about porn and its close relatives having a generally bad effect on individual human lives, I certainly join the OP in deploring how difficult it is to find a decent magazine that isn't full of stuff I'd rather not support with my dollars. And I can certainly take offense when told that such crud is what I really want, since so many of my compatriots are willing to put up with it and pay for it.

I believe in freedom. If you want to give money to the folks who encourage the boy next door to fantasize about raping your daughter, go right ahead. Every human being has a right to choose their own path to perdition.

Pardon me if I don't care to join you.

pax
 
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