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Newspapers should drop sex ads, says Andrew Pelling MP

7:11am Wednesday 29th October 2008 in Sutton

Local newspapers such as the Croydon Advertiser should drop their sex adverts because they fuel human trafficking, said Croydon MP Andrew Pelling on Monday.

He spoke out in Parliament, praising the initiative that the Croydon Guardian and its owners Newsquest have taken in removing adult services adverts from their newspapers.

He asked Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: “What can be done to encourage other news organisations to encourage their local newspapers to follow such a good example, particularly when advertising revenue is falling?”

Jacqui Smith said that ministers had met the Newspaper Society to encourage its members not to carry the adverts.

Mr Pelling said: “I hope that Northcliffe Media, the division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc who took over the Advertiser in 2007, can use their new ownership to introduce this change which supported in the Croydon community

Comments(12)

scoffer says...
10:01am Wed 29 Oct 08

Nothing to do with human trafficking!! we had olToms long before any of them arrived!!

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NastyMrTom says...
12:32pm Wed 29 Oct 08


Any of who arrived ?

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NastyMrTom says...
2:57pm Wed 29 Oct 08

According to our resident idiot (hi there scoffer !!) you're not allowed to care unless you're willing to take these people into your own home ... my wife's going to throw a fit

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scoffer says...
4:01pm Wed 29 Oct 08

You mean you're in a same sex relationship eh ?

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NastyMrTom says...
5:58pm Wed 29 Oct 08

scoffer wrote:
You mean you're in a same sex relationship eh ?

Do you think it's an insult to refer to someone by a different gender ?

Grow up mate , you're an embarrassment

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justine says...
6:06pm Wed 29 Oct 08

Good point MrTom. On top of everything, he's obviously also homophobic. Gosh, what an example of a caring, decent human being.
Any of them who? Can you express yourself more clearly please.

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scoffer says...
8:14pm Wed 29 Oct 08

Poor old Tom... she's got nowt left except bitterness and frustration... she said she was a "she" on another thread ? SOB!!

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ANNE GILES says...
9:36pm Wed 29 Oct 08

Andrew Pelling is right, though.

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Lehan says...
10:27am Thu 30 Oct 08

Adverts for sex does not encourage human trafficing. When the media stopped advertising cigarettes, did that stop people from smoking? No there are new recruits every day. It is the lazy depraved sick minds of those who want to make easy money off the backs of others that is the cause of human trafficing that and the fact that there will always be a market for sex. Not being able to advertise is not going to stop these people there's too much money to be made in the sex industry.

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Brian Sewer says...
12:42pm Thu 30 Oct 08

Is NastyMrTom from Croydon a man or a woman then? it's puzzling all this.

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NastyMrTom says...
1:14pm Thu 30 Oct 08

Lehan wrote:
Adverts for sex does not encourage human trafficing. When the media stopped advertising cigarettes, did that stop people from smoking? No there are new recruits every day. It is the lazy depraved sick minds of those who want to make easy money off the backs of others that is the cause of human trafficing that and the fact that there will always be a market for sex. Not being able to advertise is not going to stop these people there's too much money to be made in the sex industry.

fair point. I think the number of smokers falls year on year anyhow so the ban's effectiveness can't be easily judged. Even though it may not curtail the trade I still say that newspapers have a moral obligation to stop running the adverts

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ANNE GILES says...
9:21pm Thu 30 Oct 08

I agree. I refuse, as a matter of principle, to buy papers which run these ads.

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