The Ethics of FMH (or lack there of)


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Inside Cover: The naked girl who wants to smell your sweat.
An army recruitment poster for the Loyalists.
An Ad for expensive booze.
What happens to horses that dont make it to the finish line.
The People you get to Kill in the up comming war with Iran.
How Porn will make you Impotent.
Ewan McGregor's Sweat in a Bottle.
The Naked girl who wants to ride your Quadbike.
The exjailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
An ad for Mammoth cloning.
A two page spread on Human trafficking - for those of you interested in where all the naked girls are comming from.
Another Post Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
An Ad for Jason Statham - who cares what film.
The High end X-band Radar on the Oil rig platform - cause the Chinese are the new soviet threat.
Sports stars pulling girls.
Stupid in Afghanistan or "How an RPG hit me in the Privates".
The naked girl you should be filming on your digital camera and watching on your flatscreen.
The naked girl your local council would force you to register and microchip.
More Sports stars pulling girls.
Mercenary Recruitment program. The reason you should kill for money.
A third Post-Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
Getting your girls in the same room for group relations.
Mike Tyson.
Yet another Post Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
"Ship Salvage" in hostile in other peoples waters.
Clothes because you aint old enough for the Uniform and cant afford the Girls.
David Beckham's Sweat.
Again with the Sports stars pulling girls.
Another ad for booze.
Armoured vehicles you could drive if you join up for that war they have all planned out.
Back Cover: How you would look dressed like James Bond.
Comments?

Liberty's Edge

What the f@~! is FMH?

Sovereign Court

he means FHM...I think.

Post Jailbait actresses/singers likely to be seen mostly naked in FHM in 2-3 years time..

Emma Watson
Miley Cyrus
Emily Osment..

any one care to continue the predictions?


Have you ever noticed that most men's magazines have a picture of a woman on the front, and most women's magazines... have a picture of a woman on the front? Isn't that weird?


The woman's form is eight times as sexy as the sexiest male form. (theres geometry and advanced trig involved or Id show the math)

Scarab Sages

unless it's a health magazine...then it shows some ripped guy...

or some ripped chick that looks like a guy...

Wow, that description of FHM Magazine is kinda nuts...I wonder if a 3 letter agenCy Is Actually running that mag...since they like to hire mercs...and they also recruit from the military...and do things like salvage operations in hostile waters...and the magazine itself is 3-letters...and of course they're foreshadowing the war with Iran and towing the line about China...and of course Mercs are all about the B****es

think about it...


drunken_nomad wrote:
The woman's form is eight times as sexy as the sexiest male form. (theres geometry and advanced trig involved or Id show the math)

I find that absurdly hard to believe. For starters, why are heterosexual women attracted to men?

The theory that I've heard, and it sounds much more plausible (at least to me), is that men are attracted to women on the front covers of magazines, and women identify with those women. I don't know if it's true, but it seems to make a lot more sense.

Scarab Sages

DoveArrow wrote:
drunken_nomad wrote:
The woman's form is eight times as sexy as the sexiest male form. (theres geometry and advanced trig involved or Id show the math)

I find that absurdly hard to believe. For starters, why are heterosexual women attracted to men?

The theory that I've heard, and it sounds much more plausible (at least to me), is that men are attracted to women on the front covers of magazines, and women identify with those women. I don't know if it's true, but it seems to make a lot more sense.

and supposedly on health magazines, men want to look like that so they identify also.

Sovereign Court

DoveArrow wrote:


I find that absurdly hard to believe. For starters, why are heterosexual women attracted to men?

That's a good question. Any women out there want to try to field this one? I'm thinking it's less about physical attraction and more about security.


Guy Humual wrote:
That's a good question. Any women out there want to try to field this one? I'm thinking it's less about physical attraction and more about security.

I think it's more likely a flaw in the initial supposition.


Xaaon of Xen'Drik wrote:
and supposedly on health magazines, men want to look like that so they identify also.

Exactly.

Liberty's Edge

All I know is, with all the nakedness, the Australian version of FHM sounds much more interesting than the American version...


Xaaon of Xen'Drik wrote:
and supposedly on health magazines, men want to look like that so they identify also.

And men's health magazines, like Playgirl, are dual-use technology. The editors certainly know as much, and plan accordingly.


I heard once (of course I have no source to back up this wild speculation) that people of both sexes are more likely to follow instructions from a female voice than a male.


The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:
What the f@*& is FMH?

Softcore Playboy.

The Exchange

Sorry bin away staring at the inside cover...still looking for that real woman who wants to smell my sweaty shirts.

Ah yes Ethics...

So, anyone up to signing on for the comming war with Iran? All their Desert Ghosts look like Desert Ghosts out of the D&D Creature Catalogue.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Guy Humual wrote:
DoveArrow wrote:


I find that absurdly hard to believe. For starters, why are heterosexual women attracted to men?
That's a good question. Any women out there want to try to field this one? I'm thinking it's less about physical attraction and more about security.

Depends on the girl. Keep in mind most girls can and do find other girls attractive. By attractive I mean they know what it is that makes them that way and can appreciate that in other women, with out being sexually attracted to them. While most men can not or at least find it taboo to.

Plus men are more visual when it comes to turnon's so how a woman looks matters a lot to them. While women are less visual, it is not that we don't like a good looking guy only that it is less of a issue for the average woman than the average man.

And finally men as a whole tend to be a lot more self confident about their looks. Regardless the man, most of them believe they look good enough. So fewer of them want to look like johnny Depp in his prime or who ever. While women often lack self confidence about our looks and almost all of us would like to be more attractive and think we should be.

So in my opinion and thats all this is as well as the above. The reason women on covers of mags for both men and women sell better is simple. Men want to be with said women and women want to look like said women.

Now before I get flamed there are of course exceptions to the rule and this is just from my own personal experience I am not claiming any of the above as facts.


Another interesting tidbit: check out the male models in magazines whom women think are "hot." You'll notice a number of features that more ofthen than not they have in common:

1. Long hair;
2. Weak chin;
3. Full, pouty lips;
4. Long eyelashes;
5. Hairless chest with overdeveloped pecs the size of boobs;
6. Slender wrists;
6. Hairless legs.

Makes you wonder why none of the computer-generated "girls" in Playboy have mustaches...

Silver Crusade

DoveArrow wrote:
Have you ever noticed that most men's magazines have a picture of a woman on the front, and most women's magazines... have a picture of a woman on the front? Isn't that weird?

Woman+woman+camera=fun!

Silver Crusade

CourtFool wrote:
I heard once (of course I have no source to back up this wild speculation) that people of both sexes are more likely to follow instructions from a female voice than a male.

I thought that was a poodle thing?

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Dark_Mistress wrote:
And finally men as a whole tend to be a lot more self confident about their looks. Regardless the man, most of them believe they look good enough. So fewer of them want to look like johnny Depp in his prime or who ever. While women often lack self confidence about our looks and almost all of us would like to be more attractive and think we should be.

And billions of dollars are being spent every year to keep women feeling that way! :(


I am still trying to work out how you would survive being shot in the happy sack with a rocket propelled grenade?

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Lord Fyre wrote:
Dark_Mistress wrote:
And finally men as a whole tend to be a lot more self confident about their looks. Regardless the man, most of them believe they look good enough. So fewer of them want to look like johnny Depp in his prime or who ever. While women often lack self confidence about our looks and almost all of us would like to be more attractive and think we should be.
And billions of dollars are being spent every year to keep women feeling that way! :(

Yep which is often one of the big parts of womens mags, how to look better. lots of ads about products for that ect. Which i think it why women are on the cover of women's mags.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Dark_Mistress wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Dark_Mistress wrote:
And finally men as a whole tend to be a lot more self confident about their looks. Regardless the man, most of them believe they look good enough. So fewer of them want to look like johnny Depp in his prime or who ever. While women often lack self confidence about our looks and almost all of us would like to be more attractive and think we should be.
And billions of dollars are being spent every year to keep women feeling that way! :(
Yep which is often one of the big parts of womens mags, how to look better. lots of ads about products for that ect. Which i think it why women are on the cover of women's mags.

Then, why do women buy them?

I mean if the whole point of the cover model is to make women feel worse about themselves, why do women still shell out their money for them?

Spoiler:
/rant on

And why do men buy them?

Yes, I am well aware of "The obvious reason."

But that is part of the problem. Do we need to be "told" what shape/style/age of women to like?

/rant off


Quote: "Do we need to be "told" what shape/style/age of women to like?"

Well, there is an entire multi-billion dollar industry built upon that very premise.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Randall Trussell wrote:

Quote: "Do we need to be "told" what shape/style/age of women to like?"

Well, there is an entire multi-billion dollar industry built upon that very premise.

This is true!


Lord Fyre wrote:
Then, why do women buy them?

Why do men buy Rogaine?


yellowdingo wrote:
Stupid in Afghanistan or "How an RPG hit me in the Privates".
The 8th Dwarf wrote:
I am still trying to work out how you would survive being shot in the happy sack with a rocket propelled grenade?

Rocket propelled grenade? Oh! I thought it was a comment about how someone started playing roleplaying games and they stopped getting any "action". ;)

Scarab Sages

yellowdingo wrote:


How Porn will make you Impotent.

Wait. Wha-wha-what?!? I uh gotta go. I need to get to the news stand ASAP. What month was that issue?

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

DoveArrow wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Then, why do women buy them?
Why do men buy Rogaine?

To make themselves look better.

But, Rogaine does not actually make men feel worse about themselves. It seems that that is a covert objective of advertising directed at women.

Dark Archive

yellowdingo wrote:

Inside Cover: The naked girl who wants to smell your sweat.

An army recruitment poster for the Loyalists.
An Ad for expensive booze.
What happens to horses that dont make it to the finish line.
The People you get to Kill in the up comming war with Iran.
How Porn will make you Impotent.
Ewan McGregor's Sweat in a Bottle.
The Naked girl who wants to ride your Quadbike.
The exjailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
An ad for Mammoth cloning.
A two page spread on Human trafficking - for those of you interested in where all the naked girls are comming from.
Another Post Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
An Ad for Jason Statham - who cares what film.
The High end X-band Radar on the Oil rig platform - cause the Chinese are the new soviet threat.
Sports stars pulling girls.
Stupid in Afghanistan or "How an RPG hit me in the Privates".
The naked girl you should be filming on your digital camera and watching on your flatscreen.
The naked girl your local council would force you to register and microchip.
More Sports stars pulling girls.
Mercenary Recruitment program. The reason you should kill for money.
A third Post-Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
Getting your girls in the same room for group relations.
Mike Tyson.
Yet another Post Jailbait 'Actress/model' you should have in your life.
"Ship Salvage" in hostile in other peoples waters.
Clothes because you aint old enough for the Uniform and cant afford the Girls.
David Beckham's Sweat.
Again with the Sports stars pulling girls.
Another ad for booze.
Armoured vehicles you could drive if you join up for that war they have all planned out.
Back Cover: How you would look dressed like James Bond.
Comments?

You realize that you have just described this from a very intimate veiwpoint. Either you bought the magazine and have spent a lot of time with it, or you have been a very bad boy in the store with it. Neither makes me inclined to believe that you actually have any serious problems with the magazines ethics.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Lord Fyre wrote:
DoveArrow wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Then, why do women buy them?
Why do men buy Rogaine?

To make themselves look better.

But, Rogaine does not actually make men feel worse about themselves. It seems that that is a covert objective of advertising directed at women.

Actually the point of the mags are, if you do this, this and that. Buy this, this, and that. Then you to can look like the model on the cover.

To be fair, I personally don't buy them. So my perception of them might be slightly skewed.


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What? I am sorry, I can not hear you over your own stupidity.


LET ME EXPLAIN IT BETTER FOR YOU. BARK BARK GROWL WHINE PANT. GOT THAT DOGGIE? DONT MAKE ME GET UP AND WHUP UR HINDQUARTERZ! DONTCHA MAKE MEH!


I think you have a little sausage stuck in your beard just there.


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