In my local newsagents I have noticed that the porn magazines are sold alongside the teenage/kids magazines. This is wrong! It is an example of the extreme ways magazines are represented and sold. The idea that a child’s magazine is sold and marketed alongside a pornographic magazine featuring a naked, clearly suggestive woman on the front is clearly inappropriate and is sending a worrying message to the consumer. As an impressionable adolescent, the idea of being confronted with these images is daunting and confusing, but also gives the idea that these kinds of texts are acceptable, which leads to the danger of the area becoming ‘normalised’ and the female body becoming a commodity. This does not necessarily mean that every adolescent girl that walks into this shop to buy a magazine will come out wanting to look like ‘the woman on the cover’, and it does not necessarily mean that she will grow up striving to get a slender figure and a boob job, this image just serves to highlight the sorts of imagery the adolescent girl is exposed to in a normal, everyday environment. It is interesting to think about the difference in the way the magazines and images are viewed, whereby men view the women on the cover of adult magazine in a different way that a teenage girl would. This notion of how imagery is viewed; it can be seen as ideologically problematic and can be related to teen magazines in terms of the creation of fantasy and ideology within the images and texts in the magazines.