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Vigilante Virgins                 

Vigilante = watchful, wakeful, alert (Collins English Dictionary) 

Are you annoyed about something and want to make a stand? Maybe you are tired of how sex is portrayed in the media, without a thought for how you feel? Maybe a local shop is stocking too many magazines of a sexual nature on its accessible shelves? Perhaps an agony aunt has given out irresponsible or potentially harmful advice?

We live in a society that is saturated by sexual imagery. It is only reasonable to expect certain places and responsible people to provide a safe haven for the young and for those who do not want to be confronted by sexual imagery on a daily basis. We at Celibrate cannot possibly know what is happening in every community, but you can help by letting us know if you feel there is something you are concerned about. If we can build up a large enough body of people, we can work together – writing to magazines that are providing inappropriate material for their age range, asking shops to take items from their shelves that could be causing offence, lobbying agony aunts who are not sensitive to the needs and experiences of those who do not want sex. The more ‘vigilantes’ we have, the more influence we can assert. In the meantime, we would ask that you all be watchful, wakeful and alert to what is going on in your community, and let us know if there is anything you think we all should know about.

 

Snack-A-Jacks sell out to sexualising their customers

It has come to our attention that Quaker, part of the Pepsico corporation, have for the past year been distributing Snack-A-Jacks in all UK supermarkets and most other food retail outlets.  However, it seems that this once family-friendly company have sold out to sexualising their (often very young) consumers by needlessly putting insinuations to the Karma Sutra on the back of all their Snack-A-Jack products. What on earth persuaded their marketing team to do this? Do we want to be subject to this propaganda when simply buying a snack? You can ask them yourselves here: quaker.consumer@quaker.co.uk or here: thurmaston.consumer@intl.pepsico.com or call 0800-0324490 (Consumer Care) or 0116-2342357 (Pepsico) or 0203-0036362 (Pepsico Press Office). Do let us know if you receive a response.