Walmart has decided to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout lines going forward to keep what it calls “sexually explicit material” out of the hands of children.
The magazine will still be available in Walmart stores but will be shelved in the store’s regular magazine racks rather than at checkout lines where children could pick it up and read it, The Wrap reported.
The move comes after lobbying group the National Center on Sexual Exploitation said it found the content to be inappropriate for shoppers, especially children.
The organization took credit for Walmart’s decision, saying in a statement, “Protecting minors from the sexually explicit material that Cosmopolitan embodies and perpetuates has been a long term priority of NCOSE,” The Wrap reported.
“You can go through and buy your groceries with your family knowing you won’t have to be exposed to this graphic and often degrading and offensive material,” NCOSE Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach Haley Halverson said.
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Good. I always cover trashy magazines when I see them. I wish Royal Farms would get rid of their porn section.....eye level with every child walking by.
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ReplyDeleteGood. I hate having that trash put in my face where I have to stand and wait. And I have spent many years trying to dodge it when I had a young child with me.
Thank you Walmart.
6:46 ah where do you think the guys get the inspiration to make more kids?
ReplyDeleteOMG! A child might see a naked boobie! This country's fear of nudity is so nuts! In England, they put boobie pix in the newspapers.
ReplyDeleteFinally Wal-Mart does something ill Support
ReplyDeleteWow..Fahrenheit 451 now? This Morals kick all of sudden boggles me. From the ones who dont know the true Christ Jesus our savior.Godless no less and preaching morals. Hypocrites? Pilot, Herod high priests from on high. Sellouts. Dont be fooled Something more sinister is afoot?
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA, kids see and learn more racy stuff in school and on the internet than they will ever see or learn from a cosmo magazine. first world problems at wal-mart hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteI'm offended by the yearly Weather almanac in checkout isles. Telling me when it'll snow and their conspiracies with grocery and hardware stores. Bread/Milk/ToiletPaper/bottle water alert crawls across the television screens. Then hazy/hot/humid days during the summer, whereas we must conserve electricity/AC or Delmarva Power will have rolling blackouts!
ReplyDeleteOH THE HUMANITY!!!!
(sarcasm off - snicker snicker snicker)
Walmart North Salisbury , DaBury
ReplyDeleteputting in more Self ck out lines (TOO MANY)
Get Ready to do their work , for yourself to ck out !!!
They better Lower Prices alot more if We have to do
Their JOB !!!