The sort of accusations levelled at publications like OUTE You're presenting an accurate pic ture. of life Should you seall be ten an girls boys romance are the most important factors in their existence? Aren't populal WYLUs about the relationship between the sexes?
To some extent these accusations are iustitied. A magazine with a title like Love Affair, with a mooning couple on every cover, basic content slodc doout roilalcc allu sex, is undoubtedly appealing to girls who are obsessed with boys. And, yes — I guess it's feeding that obsession But within that Coex! what exactly do you find? Fate First of all, our stories, their irrepressible first-person narrators, are not really romantc in form. Our characters never rely Fate stepping in and rescuthem cruel destiny.
The stories are, rather, confessions, which means that Oul heroines ai c wrong-doers. They are people who have learned from past mistakes, and Walt lO pass on their Socialist Challenge 19 March 1981 DRUKRUS OBECRY RUTHEESS SCHEMER Use your starsign to create BEEN ing working on a magazine like that? I think l'd be answering 3O1 NIOSL of Love Affair's staff by saying that we have a commitment to our readers F a ere or ine we are well aware propaganda fed to young girls about topics like abortion, contraception, rape.
If these subjects come up in stories or in our problems page we are caretul present an uncompromising, nonest and often radical stand Though our CHC UHEC are sinners, their sins are never: v teo naoc N I killed an innocent un. born child'. Our heroines Far cry It's a far cry from the feminism of Spare Rib or