The Home Office has recommended slapping an age restriction on lads' magazines such as Zoo and Nuts. It is one of 36 recommendations in its report on the increasing sexualisation of children and young people. Described as "soft porn", such magazines often show partially naked women on the front cover and are readily available for anyone to buy.
The report recommends that age classifications, similar to those applied to films and video games, should be applied to lads' mags.
Talk about whether lads' mags should be agerestricted. Consider whether it would be appropriate for a 12- or 15-year-old to buy them. Should those under a certain age be banned from buying them? Discuss how the images in these magazines differ from those on page 3 of The Sun.
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