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5/01/2006
Grocery Stores Should Not Display May Issue of Cosmopolitan FREMONT, Mich., May 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- “Orgasms Unlimited: How to Achieve a Feel-Good Explosion . . . and Then Another and Another.” This is one of the racy titles headlining the May issue of Cosmopolitan, found at family grocery stores across the nation. In a full page ad placed in the May 1 issue of Supermarket News, a trade magazine targeting America’s food retailers, American Decency Association urges the chief executives of supermarket chains not to display the May issue of Cosmopolitan, which is highly inappropriate for the general shopping public. In the unprecedented ad, the American Decency Association raises two questions with national supermarket presidents and chief executive officers: (1) Are there no standards of decency in your stores? and (2) Will you take a stand for decency and immediately remove the May Cosmopolitan with these offensive headlines from display? American Decency Association is a Christian-based, pro-decency organization committed to educating the general public on matters of decency; to initiate, promote, encourage and coordinate activity designed to safeguard and advance public morality consistent with biblical Christianity. The ADA regularly urges supermarket chains throughout the country to either remove magazines that display indecent images or titles from their checkout aisles or to place blinders over them. In 2001, for example, twenty-four chains had taken measures to curbing indecency either by way of the use of blinders or removing offensive magazines from the checkout counter and moving them to the magazine aisle.
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