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Scarlet magazine off the shelves at TescoSpokespeople for Tesco said the decision was made because there wasn't enough space on their shelves. Scarlet's publisher Gavin Griffiths pointed out that several "lad's" magazines remain untouched. "If you look at titles like Nuts and Zoo, they are just pornography, and I don't understand why they are allowed on the shelves, but erotica for women isn't," he said. Scarlet is now over a year old and apparently selling 70,000 issues a month, although we're not sure what effect this decision will have on their circulation. They've still got shelf space at WH Smith's so all is not lost. The magazine recently received a write up in the Times, with columnist Jonathon Gornall discussing the concept of sex toy testing and suggesting that the ideal woman's vibrator would "rotate and gently vibrate while reciting whole chunks of Pride and Prejudice". Now, if I may go off on an aside here, I have to say that actually sounds like a damned good sex toy. Sure, he was only joking, but I'm willing to bet that there's a huge untapped market for vibrators that also quote great English literature. I think the world will be a much better place once your average Pearl Rabbit can also reel off a few lines from Romeo and Juliet... In any case, the Scarlet website is much more exciting than it used to be and offers some nice free stuff and a blog from the editor. You go, girls. Posted: Monday 5th December 2005, 1:23 AM Back to the Blog
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