Published: October 22, 2019
Exclusive: Hundreds of service stations recently banned the magazines from sale, saying they demeaned women and girls
Australian men’s magazine the Picture and the 69 year-old People magazine will close at the end of the year, ending decades of printed weeklies featuring topless models and readers’ sex stories.
Publisher Bauer Media was forced to axe the magazines after retailers lined up to ban them from sale at service stations; and readership fell to 0.02% of the population over 14 for People magazine and 0.01% for The Picture. They are already banned from sale in supermarkets.
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