(AgapePress) - A New Hampshire woman who says she is fed up with smut in store checkout lanes says she plans to boycott at least one business on the busiest shopping day of the year.

Jenna Brooks had to endure red tape and make many phone calls. But her persistence paid off when she finally convinced a Wal-Mart district manager to move racy magazines away from the checkout line to the back of the store in Derry, New Hampshire.

But Brooks says she is not done. She says other stores have either ignored her requests or only responded with token actions -- so now, she is taking action.

"I'm running my own personal boycott," Brooks explains. "I'm actually printing up flyers for myself, and I'm going to be handing them out at stores that have these objectionable covers at their checkouts."

Brooks says the flyer explains to those stores that since they choose to support what she describes as "soft-core pornography" at the checkout and unless they "clean it up," she will be boycotting their stores on November 29, traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year.

During her experience with Wal-Mart, the home-school mother found she is not alone. "I was pretty upset [when I was] at the customer service desk showing this magazine," she says. "Bit by bit, by the time I was done, there had to be 15 to 20 women in a small group around there and one or two guys standing there."

Did they have an effect? "You would not believe the impact of a bunch of angry women," Brooks says.

The Mississippi-based American Family Association has targeted what it calls "glossy garbage" in supermarket checkout lanes, and offers suggestions for those like Brooks who do not want their children exposed to racy magazine covers. The group offers a brochure entitled "Glossy Garbage: What One Person Can Do About Offensive Grocery Store Magazine Covers."

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