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Lad mags
Magazines advertising porn sit next to comics, the MP says
Sexually explicit 'lads mags' should be banished to the top shelf by law, a Labour MP has told the Commons.

Claire Curtis-Thomas wants an independent regulator to restrict the display of such magazines in a bid to stop children from buying them.

She says some of the publications are 'repulsive' and 'degrading to women'.

But Tory MP Angela Watkinson opposed the measure, saying it did not take account of the 'complicity' of the women involved in the photo shoots.

'Graphic' contents

Mrs Curtis-Thomas presented her Regulation of Sale and Display of Sexually Explicit Material Bill in the Commons, stressing that many of the publications she was concerned about contained 'hard-core porn', numbers for 'sex chatlines' and adverts for masseurs.

She said descriptions of sex"