Two U.S. magazines that focus on high school proms accidentally published a child-porn Web site address in an advertisement for Studio 17.

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Fairchild Publications said it would removed some 200,000 copies of YM's Your Prom edition from newsstands after an advertiser, Studio 17, mistakenly printed a child-porn Web site address in two of its six ad pages, Mediaweek reported Monday.

However, an estimated 75 percent of the issue had already been sold.

"As a publisher that reaches teens with this special prom issue, not to mention as a mother, we are taking swift action to take all the remaining issues off the newsstand to prevent teenagers from unwittingly being exposed to a Web site that contains pornographic material," said Mary Berner, president of Fairchild.

However, Hearst Magazines said it would not pull any of its 600,000 copies of Teen Prom from newsstands, although the publication also carried the Studio 17 ad pages.

"This was a mistake on the advertiser's behalf -- in fact, the error also appeared in their own catalogue," said a spokeswoman for Hearst. "This is a very unfortunate situation and, quite simply, the result of human error."