DVDs vs Lads Mags

I've recently been pondering the way DVDs are displayed in shops. In particular horror films. It just strikes me as odd that they're allowed to show such graphic horrid images on the front covers that are undoubtedly going to be seen by children when shopping with their parents. It's not as if they're put up high out of their line of sight either!

Why do mens magazines have to be kept on the top shelf with a slip of paper covering womens breasts? I may be the odd one out here, but I'd rather my child see a pair of tits than some of the things I've seen on DVD covers.

For starters even I can't look at them without the image sticking in my mind and giving me nightmares (I can't watch horror films as they have a really bad effect on me...think crying, tensing up, hyperventilating...full on freaking out basically. Then my brain stores what I've seen picture perfect in my mind until such times as when the lights go out or I close my eyes to try to sleep.) So what are they going to do to the impressionable minds of babes?

Surely if the film is classified as an 18, then it's been so for a reason. Thus the images on the cover(which are undoubtedly images/characters from the film) should be sheilded from the view of minors...and those like me who don't want to see them? Now I know some will say "It's simple, just don't go into that section". But it's not as easy as that, some stores don't have their films set out by genre. I was in poundland the other day and was greeted by a display of horror DVDs(like Hellraiser etc)! Not what you expect from a shop like that, that's never had anything like that in before.

I guess my main point is: Why are these ghastly and horrid images ok to be seen by minors when a simple pair of breasts are not?

And we wonder why some people are ashamed of breastfeeding!?
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