MPs are considering whether bags should be placed over pornographic magazines in newsagents, instead of just displaying them on the top shelf. Skip related content
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A cross-party group of politicians, including Tory former Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe and ex-Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell, have demanded an urgent review of the guidelines for newspapers and magazines with "sexually graphic" front covers.
They have also called for the inquiry to examine whether a cinema-style age rating system should be introduced for magazines.
In a Commons motion tabled by Labour's Lindsay Roy, the MPs state that "politicians, retailers, publishers and distributors have a collective responsibility to protect children and young people from displays of sexually graphic material that they are not emotionally equipped to deal with".
The motion calls for an urgent review of existing guidelines, which were drawn up between the Home Office and the National Federation of Retail Newsagents.
The MPs said a review "must consider the availability of sexually graphic publications to children and young people, the positioning of these publications on the shelves of retailers, the potential for concealing these publications in bags and consider the question of age-rating such publications".
So far 11 MPs from the three main parties have signed Mr Roy's motion.
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