Bauer Media to close People and Picture after retailers ban softcore pornography titles

Bauer Media will close its two softcore pornography magazines, People and Picture, at the end of the year as retailers refuse to stock the titles, making them commercially unviable.

Picture launched in 1988 while People launched in 1974, but recent pushback from organisations including Collective Shout have forced supermarkets and service stations to refuse to sell the two titles which feature topless models and readers’ sex stories.

A Bauer spokesperson said the lack of commercial opportunities forced the publisher’s hand.

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