Nudity in Car & Driver... Interesting...
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<< but is there any guidelines for things like this that magazines have to follow? >>
Two things that you may not have heard of:
1) Freedom of the Press
2) Hustler Magazine
In short - they can print anything they damn well please.
Thats pretty interesting... I would think to do that sort of thing you have to restrict the magazine to adults only. If you don't mind me asking, where in Car & Driver is the nudity? I have the latest issue but I haven't looked through it too carefully. I'm just curious how "nude" it is or if its an accidental thing like a shirt that was too open or whatever 
... (Kinda like there's almost or so-close to nudity in Maxim and Stuff, but its close enough that it isn't considered nudity).
EDIT - Oh, aphex described what it was, nevermind
... (Kinda like there's almost or so-close to nudity in Maxim and Stuff, but its close enough that it isn't considered nudity). EDIT - Oh, aphex described what it was, nevermind
d@mnit.... i'm at college and my C&Ders get delivered to home !!!!!
arg... i'll have to wait 2 weeks till finals are over to go home :disgust:
arg... i'll have to wait 2 weeks till finals are over to go home :disgust:
Cosmo used to have tons of nudity in it! So does Vanity Fair! Don't you remember the Demi Moore spread that featured her, naked, with a suit painted on? Jim Carrey has even posed in it, naked! (not that i read 'em... just remember swiping em as a kid from my mom!)
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<< but is there any guidelines for things like this that magazines have to follow? >>
Two things that you may not have heard of:
1) Freedom of the Press
2) Hustler Magazine
In short - they can print anything they damn well please. >>
Boy, aren't you a smartass. Ever heard of this little group called "advertisers"?
<< Boy, aren't you a smartass. Ever heard of this little group called "advertisers"? >>
What do advertisers have to do with it? They can still print anything they want. The question wasn't about how much it would cost them in potential lost advertising revenue. The question was about whether or not it was allowed.
As far as being 18 to buy it - Most place sin the US you have to be 18 to buy pornography. However, nudity and pornography are NOT the same thing. You can buy National Geoegraphic with pictures of naked people in some tropical country somewhere because it's documenting other cultures, not aiming to sexually arouse.
Like I said... Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair frequently have nudity in them. Anyone can buy them off of any magazine stand, no age limit.
notfred is right... there is a difference between pornography and nudity. Hell... you can show full frontal nudity on public tv, if it is educational. I've seen numerous talk shows that inform women how to give themselves mamograms and have a totally topless woman as the guinea pig.
notfred is right... there is a difference between pornography and nudity. Hell... you can show full frontal nudity on public tv, if it is educational. I've seen numerous talk shows that inform women how to give themselves mamograms and have a totally topless woman as the guinea pig.
What do advertisers have to do with it? They can still print anything they want. The question wasn't about how much it would cost them in potential lost advertising revenue. The question was about whether or not it was allowed.
Do you really think anandtech cracks down on nudity so hard here because it really wants to be the premier "family" computer site? I doubt it.
Advertisors, when they buy space, slots, or pages, have certain conditions that go along with the ordering of the advertisement. For many, that means that nowhere in the publication is nudity or other adult material supposed to be present.
Of course, a magazine can say hey, we regularly have non-erotic nudity in this magazine-and the advertisors might decline to run their ads in the magazine-but thats not the point Im making. The point is that many advertisors are absolutly terrified of being associated with anything sexual. (Standards dont always apply solely to sexual content, but I would wager that that is the case most of the time).
Do you really think anandtech cracks down on nudity so hard here because it really wants to be the premier "family" computer site? I doubt it.
Advertisors, when they buy space, slots, or pages, have certain conditions that go along with the ordering of the advertisement. For many, that means that nowhere in the publication is nudity or other adult material supposed to be present.
Of course, a magazine can say hey, we regularly have non-erotic nudity in this magazine-and the advertisors might decline to run their ads in the magazine-but thats not the point Im making. The point is that many advertisors are absolutly terrified of being associated with anything sexual. (Standards dont always apply solely to sexual content, but I would wager that that is the case most of the time).
I'd say it's up to the individual magazine. But it would seem kind of out of place, i guess. Interesting.
Also, many stores (wal-mart is famous for this) are very strict in the guidelines they set for what the magazines that they carry can and cannot have in their magazines. For instance, if they carry xyz magazine regularly, but xyz suddenly decides to start showing nudity in their magazine, walmart will pull it faster than you can imagine. there have been a few very high profile instances of this in the last couple years...
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