12-Year-Old Gets Maxim Mag, Mom Not Happy

[Haydyn]

His mom didn't think it would be a good thing for her son to read. No shit, Sherlock. But in all reality, a 12 year old who is a big fan of the Wii with a mom like that is going to need that magazine if he doesn't want to grow up snacking on the wrong genitals.

Looking back, I stumbled upon my first porn site when I was about 13. No, it must have been 12, because I learned "The Best Single Player Game" before the age of 14, but not at the same time as I saw that site.

In all seriousness, this problem is all too common. My dad started getting Maxim and Playboy after signing up for Sports Illistrated. Also, after donating 20 bucks to save grizzly bears in the Pacific North West he started getting TONS of hippie magazines from PETA. Those tricky, hippie bastards.

 

[Elduderino]

Eh theres never anything all that bad in maxims. I guess 12 is a pretty good age to start talking to your kid about sexuality.

No, 12 is the age in which you shelter them from anything and everything and make sure they'll never figure out what exactly goes where when he gets a girlfriend.

Hehe, that's pretty much her point, however doomed the sentiment is. He'll almost certainly be seeing worse at school - at that age several people at his school will be almost certainly be circulating porn. With a bit of luck he's allowed on the internet too and then he'll really be seeing some fun stuff. Actually yeah, cancel the subscription, force him online then hopefully he'll get busted checking out some real grot and she'll have to face up to the fact her son isn't a monk.

PS Why no quote from the kid??

 

[The Random One]

And just when someone looks at gaming demographic and realizes it's not children but mostly 18-24 males, something like that happens.

 

[antidark777]

There are far, FAR, worse things a 12 year old capable of finding online.

Not a bad severence package if i may say so.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

At twelve, I would have horded those things, not told my mom...

 

[YuheJi]

What if the kid just doesn't like Maxim? The point is, they paid for a magazine that they aren't going to be getting anymore. It's not about the kid growing up. How would you like it if a magazine you subscribed to was replaced with something else without prior notification? Why the hell didn't they just decide to give refunds?

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

I'm sure some free speech knee jerk reaction folks will be along any moment to riled up about some mom saying their kid shouldn't be reading Maxim.

You called it, they delivered it. It was kinda sad but I totally saw these reactions coming, as well. It's silly how defensive some of the posters here are about some stupid magazine.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I halfway thought Something Awful was making the whole "EGM has been replaced by Maxim" thing up when I first saw their frontpage humor article about that, so finding out they really did that has made it that much more hilarious.

 

[paragon1]

HAHA, my mom had the same reaction when that happened to me. Though to be fair I'm slightly older than 12, and I'm willing to bet that most of EGM's target demographic wouldn't mind getting Maxim. Still, I don't think Maxim's all that great, I'd rather still be getting EGM. At least some of their humor was funny.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

. . .

Sorry, what was this article about?

Anyways.

EGM = Win.

 

[Terramax]

Come on! Kids at my school were buying The Daily Sport at 11 years old.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

He's 12.

Smart money is, he knows more horrible and disgusting fetishes than his mom could even begin to think of.

Also, I still can't be the only one who thinks Megan Fox is completely unattractive, can I?

You're probably right on the kid's knowledge, and I'm not too keen on Megan Fox either.

Normally I'm against parents being overprotective, but I don't think a kid should grow up thinking the making a magazine as crap as maxim is okay .

 

[Zedzero]

Now I just need to wait for my PC Gamer subscription to be cancelled and replaced with Playboy.

LOL. Anyways, yea most kids know about sex and what not around his age. If you shelter him he's going to be effed up.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I wonder who thought that replacing the magazine subscriptions like this was a good idea.

"Our customers receive a monthly gaming magazine from us. Let's replace it with something completely different and totally unrelated. What could go wrong?"

Imagine going to a McDonalds, ordering a hamburger, and them giving you a printer instead of the meal. You really ordered the hamburger, but you really needed a new printer anyway...

 

[Blood_Lined]

Well based off of the cover of the magazine, it isn't something I would want my 12 year-old son to see either, well not necessarily not see, just I do not believe that it is the most appropriate of all things, know what I mean?

Also the write-in to cancel the subscription should be honored, so I have no idea what that issue was about, and finally, the mother should be happy, considering how the boy simply gave the magazine to his mother, rather than hold on to it, and this whole incident be turned around and suddenly become video game's fault.

 

[Silva]

"Spectacular" is definitely the word for this situation. A hilarious switchover. In fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say it was intended trolling.

 

[LeonLethality]

Maxim is a fairly innocent magazine. No reason why the boy can't read through it; the boy's gonna have to learn sometime, and if his mom isn't going to talk to him about it, then he might as well learn from a good periodical.

if it were my son I would pat him on the head and said "keep the magazine it builds character" (cookie to those who know where the core of that joke is from)

 

[ssgt splatter]

That is one sexy console on the cover.

Yes. Yes it is.

 

[Nargleblarg]

Wow...that mom is a total buzzkill. She may think it was a bad idea to send this out and she is probably right...but tell me what 12 year old boy wouldn't want a maxim subscription? And why did the kid show her the magazine did he really not know what it was that he had in his hands.

Also I find it funny that she thinks it's not appropriate for a 12 year old because it's really not that dirty compared to like playboy, and I personally saw much worse when I was 12 and I turned out fine.