From noon on Saturday, August 24, campaigners from pressure group Lose The Lads Mags will be gathering outside the Tesco Superstore on Church Road, Hove to urge the retailer to stop selling ‘pornographic lads mags’.
The group believe Tesco should drop publications, such as Nuts and Zoo, as they “fuel attitudes underpinning violence against women, and exposing customers to them can constitute sexual harassment or sex discrimination under the Equality Act.”.
Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women’s Aid, said:
“This campaign is a brilliant way to show retailers and publishers that the public will not stand for casual misogyny any longer.
“Young women should not have to walk past images which show them as passive sex objects and legitimate targets for male sexual aggression every day, as they do now.
“Lads’ mags are not ‘banter’, they repeat damaging sexist ideas and objectify women. We urge retailers to take note of this campaign and act to remove these magazines before they face a full legal challenge.”
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