One of my dearest friends is a woman who sells real estate in NYC and she has a New York Magazine subscription for the real estate ads, but I always hated the prostitution ads in the back. I'm going to call her tonight and share the happy news.
I might just renew my membership to NOW for the next year. Last year I was a member was 2004 when they supported Carol Mosely Braun for president. If you want to contact the magazine to say thanks:
call 800-678-0900
email http://nymag.com/contactus/
No More Sex Ads in New York Magazine
WNYC Newsroom
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/88481
NEW YORK, NY November 07, 2007 —New York Magazine will stop printing sex ads. This, after the local chapter of the National Organization for Women threatened protests outside the weekly publication.
REPORTER: The women's rights group had accused the magazine of being a "marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human trafficking." NOW President Sonia Ossorio says the publisher was open to changing the advertising practices.
OSSORIO: They didn't really like being in that business. And particularly now with the connection between trafficking and the prostitution market.
REPORTER: A New York Magazine spokeswoman declined to say whether NOW's pressure tactics influenced the decision, adding it was just the right the thing to do. Ossorio says The Village Voice and ethnic newspapers like The World Journal have resisted NOW's efforts to stop the sex ads.