If you didn't like the presentation (say, it was bashing the normal sex drive), you could use the other rag or wait 2 weeks (you might get one against gossip and slander, or anti-smoking). Now, if you get a bad presentation, you are stuck with it for the whole month--and, if they simply leave single page wastes of paper, forever.
Good point.
I distinctly remember a day when APing, placing 16 mags because I believed in the message, and it came across to the HH. Other mags, I said, WTH do I do with this crap.
With the dumb-downed drivel of today's mags, publishers mumble:
"Hi, I'm a volunteer ... Please take these, I'll earn a merit badge."