The wonderful, revolutionary thing about J17 was the no-nonsense, feminist problem page. Until then, girls writing in to magazines to say they were being pressured for sex by older men rarely had their letters published, or if they did, the reply was unsympathetic. For instance:

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The response here should be, Tell an adult at once, his behaviour is unacceptable. But no. The first concern is that she'll 'look rude/silly'. And the responsibility is all put onto her shoulders: she, a teen girl, will have to shut the door in the face of an adult male.

I don't know which magazine this is but I think it might be Oh Boy, which ran from the very ate 70s into the 80s.

This I think is Jackie magazine, again putting all the onus onto a young teen to fend off a sexually predatory uncle. Half the advice is about dealing with her "jealous boyfriend"! Nothing about speaking to an adult, or about how appallingly this adult male is behaving.

Yeah, Mandy, if there were anything dodgy, your mum would have picked it up. Stop being stupid.

So Mandy's being told early on not to trust her instincts, and that she's foolish to be on the alert when an adult man makes her uncomfortable.

Girls don't just write to magazines on a whim. That letter will have cost her.

Here's another daughter upset about her father's behaviour. This time, he's actually touching the girls as well as saying inappropriate things to them. 1 of 2.

But once again, the girl is told not to hurt an adult man's feelings and that she's being silly to be concerned.
(Oh Boy magazine)

A school bus driver here, a man in a position of trust, has been grooming this schoolgirl. What help does she get from the agony aunt? 1 of 2

Basically she gets told off for being selfish and not thinking of the man's family. Nothing about the man being at fault or predatory and that she needs to speak to the school about him.

Here a drama teacher has been at the very least emotionally exploiting a young teen. Does the agony aunt tell her that this is wrong for an adult male to do this and she needs to speak up about his behaviour? Nope. The girl is left to sort it out on her own.

That letter was from Blue Jeans magazine.

Even adult women's magazines were dreadful. Here Cosmo tells a teenage girl whose male teacher is actually having sex with her that "she could ruin him". And once again, it's left to this girl to sort out on her own.

And here's Jackie again. Once more a teenage girl is being exploited by an adult man but the response is that she is behaving badly and it's up to her to sort it out.