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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA["I didn't think it was a magazine my son should be looking at." <br>________________________________________________<br><br>Be glad he's not looking at professional wrestling magazines.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wish Belkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 8th 2009 5:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[You thonk young boys should'nt read this mag? Keep them inside the house 24-7 since they SEE & HEAR more out on the streets. SEX SELLS no matter how ya look at it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simzee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 9th 2009 5:32AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Does he like gladiator movies?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 4:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[My son reads the wrestling magazines and I always read them 2 make sure they are not too mature for him and yes we are huge wrestling fans.They can not be compared to this trash.They should be ashamed sending this to kids.I would see about getting my money back.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cindy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 4:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would let him look but would have previewed the magazine first.  In case he had any questions or whatever.  I wouldn't want the kid to feel ashamed.   A magazine doesn't replace what a father or other male role model can answer for a young man. That is something a mother shouldn't be getting all in their business about because mom will always want to keep her kids needing her.  They grow up but hopefully you helped raise them right and that love is forever.  :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pinkthenred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 5:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[The boy shouldn't be looking at either, you dope.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[denalaurens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 6:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[What is this country sinking to? In the old days, a 12-year-old would watch the mail and take the magazine, hide it from the old lady, and charge his friends to let them look at it! Nowadays, junior is feeling like a victim and mommy is his enabler. And even if he DID let his friends look at it, they would tattle to everybody from the preacher, to the teacher, to the popo. Those were the days, alright!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Angela]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 8th 2009 7:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[I couldn't agree with you more.  When I was kid I had a collection of Playboy's that would have rivaled Hef himself.  When mom would find them and throw them out we'd look at bra ads in the Sears catalog.  We lit firecrackers and blew up our army men with them.     We would pretend to shoot each other with cap guns.  Guess what?  I lived through it all and I turned out almost half way normal.  Now days kids don't play with their friends, they chat with them on MySpace.  They don't look at girls in magazines, they surf hardcore german poopy porn on the internet.  I guess what I'm trying to say is if you have a 12 year old looking at Maxim that should be the least of your worries.  He's normal!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetruckerking]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 7:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Amen Angela, Amen!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TJLee03]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 11th 2009 3:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Seeing stuff like this doesn't cause sex activity and pregnancies. Parent need to do their jobs and calm down. Plus, their kids probably already do that stuff with kids their age, male, female, and family. Some people are sick like that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ericanicole1g]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 8th 2009 9:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Up in arms over Maxim? Seriously? Not Playboy, not Penthouse, but Maxim? What's more, I'd expect this sort of pandering and sensationalism from a local news program like WBZTV, but Switched, too? Please, calm down and grow up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mikee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 9th 2009 12:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[The old and tired line that "sex sells" is ignorant to say the least.  There is a powerful targeting of young girls by media and advertising, a pervasive onslaught of oversexualization and objectification of girls as young as 5 years old - thongs that say "Eye candy" to mention one sample...I suggest you go to www.alternet.org and read the article, "Sexpot Virgins: The Media's Sexualization of Young Girls" The American Psychological Association has even stepped forward and put a plea out to stop this insane ridiculousness.  There is a corporate marketing push to lure girls and boys into cradle to grave consumerism - at the expense of girls dignity and well-being and at the expense of boys healthy abiltiy to experience true intimacy.  <br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ztruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 2:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Your a prude Ztruth and out of touch and you don't know what your talking about. Nope that isn't old and tried to say sex sells it does, and that isn't being ignorant either. And that artical about sexpot is baseless and full of lies just like American Psychological Association doesn't know what there talking about either. so your dead Ztruth your a loaser that needs to get a life. I'm right as always and down with prudes Of America.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 2:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maxim is not that bad and it isn't racy I would let my 12 year old read Maxim. I think mother is over reacting and is a prude.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gobluespartyon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 2:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's fine - if that's the magazine you subscribed to - my kids (and this isn't the first time we've been substitued maxim) choose their magazines on what they are interested in. They really enjoy their subscriptions and sometimes that's the only way to get them to read. they look forward to their next issue. Then all of a sudden it's gone. And they don't want Maxim. So it's not the mom being a prude it's the point of getting what you buy, what you choose, ya know freedom to choose - I think it's one of our rights in this country]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 3:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Your wrong Nancy the mother is overacting and is a prude plus you don't know what your talking about either. I doubt the mother cancelled when the mags last issue came up as I say Maxim isn't a racy mag.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gobluespartyon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 6:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wait! Maxim is bad, but Cosmo is ok? I never quite understood the double standard. I work at a summer camp and many of our female campers receive Cosmo in the mail from their parents. Ive actually seen bare breast in Cosmo, but never in Maxim.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[filch97]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 2:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[Bare breast in a girls mag, oh gawd! Jeez, a girl looking at a girls bare breast in a magazine for girls is not bad. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reichilu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 4:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't agree with children reading Cosmo either (actually most "fashion" magazines and most "men's" magazines shouldn't be seen by children IMO).  However replacing a GAMING magazine subscription with a COMPLETLY UNRELATED magazine is stupid, particularly when the magazine articles (excusing the lite-porn images for a moment) will be for the most part irrelevant and/or uninteresting to much of the gaming magazines subscribers including 12 year old boys and most females.  I guess the publishers are going on the assumption that gamers fit the sterotype that gamers are all 18-40 year old males who live in their moms' basements and need a 'hip' magazine like "Maxim" to tell them how they should really be living.  Also, I have nothing against nudity, it is the objecitfication that I have issue with.  As for "Maxim" itself I would rather a 12 year old look at the entire swimsuit edition of "Sports Illustrated") than some of the pictures reminiscent of bondage by leather that shows up on some of the covers of Maxim. Though I would prefer them stay away from both until they are a little older.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dreolin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 11th 2009 1:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 12-Year-Old Kids Still Getting Racy 'Maxim' Instead of Gaming Magazine]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/08/12-year-old-kids-still-getting-racy-maxim-instead-of-gaming-maga/</guid><description><![CDATA[The same thing happened to my family, except my son is 15.  We thought he ordered it without telling us, but then received a notice saying the gaming magazine was no longer being published and they choose to send us the Maxim edition.  At 15, it's no as bad - of course we haven't seen my son in a while.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iwhofan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 10th 2009 2:38PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
