How old is cosmopolitan

Like what, the primary sex organ of a woman is not inherently "sexy"? If a vagina isn't sexy, I don't know what is. Perhaps the article discusses waxing, or kegels, or labiaplasty, or some other way to sex up your sex.

I'm ashamed to say that I read Cosmo as a teenager, shortly after I stopped reading Seventeen, and absolutely attribute a lifelong struggle with eating disorders in large part to these rags. Thankfully, I can now find a perineum on my own and no longer need Cosmo's recycled sex tips.

Really interesting how a change that reflected women's liberation and the sexual revolution in the 70s is now serving basically the opposite purpose. The sex articles are no longer there to empower women, but to remind us how woefully inadequate we would be as lovers without Cosmo's sage advice. I remember in high school, when my friends and I thought it was hilarious to pick a Cosmo article at random and read it out loud to each other in a crowded bookstore. I think the worst was one going into great detail about how, exactly to move your hand around your guy's penis during a hand job.

Faux liberation strikes again. I bought an old copy of Cosmopolitan from for five bucks at a used bookstore. It features two short stories one a man vs. I assumed that it was a different magazine, even though it shared the name, until I looked up the Wikipedia article later. It might be "harrowingly explicit" but it's also completely useless as a sex manual.

The advice it gives is all horrible, and the way they present it by suggesting 'hot surprises' instead of encouraging you to talk to your partner and actually find out what you'd both like is even worse. It's a gender role indoctrination manual that encourages insecurity and discourages communication across gender lines. My wife used to get Cosmo for light reading. I leafed through it from time to time laughing at some of the absolutely ridiculous statements in the articles like "men don't like to cuddle.

Recently, supermarkets in my area have started obscuring the cover of Cosmo on the racks. I mean, it's not like Cosmo used to be less sexist. Maybe it was more intellectually stimulating, but weren't most of the stories written by men anyway? No guarantees of female empowerment there. I think it's really fascinating how it's changed over the years, along with other non-lady-centric publications, but the "eugh, all it has these days is SEX MANUALS" commentary strikes me as not terribly progressive.

One aspect of the continued popularity of Cosmo that needs to be taken into account is that the magazine wouldn't be printing the "articles" that it does if the readers didn't respond to them and purchase them due to the racy and sexist content. If women don't want to be portrayed as a man's sexual object then maybe they shouldn't be reading a magazine that is teaching them how to be exactly that.

Cosmo is only living up to the standards that we as a society are holding it to. That being said, sometimes women do want advice on sex and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn't turn into a culture of women simply striving to please their men without any reciprocal reward. And it would be nice if Cosmo branched out into other subjects that women are interested in, they could draw in a larger audience and thus more profits if they didn't so narrowly limit their content to one of a sexual nature.

Via WM. Christie, the Senior Web Editor for Cosmopolitan. I think it's great you dug up those old covers For those of you interested in seeing more, I just wanted to pass on our online Cosmo Cover Gallery, which has covers from the past 10 years. We really enjoy the older Cosmopolitan magazines. Stunning covers and great literature combined!

They should bring back the illustrated cover and excellent literature. Make it smarter. Thanks for the excellent post. Please world, please see that sexuality is not a toy. Please see the pain and numbing effect that comes from a sex-saturated society. It is a wonderful gift from God to enjoy, but of course we have to pervert it into something that hurts others and ruins lives. So what [ Brave, innovative and dare I say shrewd, oh and they happen to be beautiful women.

Look at this glimpse of Cosmos evolution. Audrey Hepburn was once the role model. With good reason-—she was strong, graceful and [ She was a figurehead of the sexual revolution, and she wanted women to feel sexually liberated.

Currently led by editor in chief Kate White, the magazine enjoys its status as a pop-cultural mainstay and trusted go-to source for information on topics like sex, relationships, fashion, health and beauty.

Working closely with White and Cosmo design director Ann Kwong, Pentagram has redesigned Cosmopolitan to create a bold new version of the iconic magazine. Cosmo is well loved by its readers, and rather than fix something that is decidedly not broken, the redesign accompanies an editorial shift that distills the best elements of the magazine and brings it up to date for the age of tabloids and Twitter. The new direction makes the tone of the magazine more irreverent, light and accessible.

Stories are shorter and are told with more visuals. But have you ever wondered the way it all began? The story of how a '60s babe named Helen Gurley Brown you've probably heard of her transformed an antiquated general-interest mag called Cosmopolitan into the must-read for young, sexy single chicks is pretty damn amazing — and so is the effect her creation has had on the world.

Over the years, Cosmo has not only become the number-one-selling monthly magazine on the newsstand, but it has also served as an agent for social change, encouraging women everywhere to go after what they want whether it be in the boardroom or the bedroom.

Back in the '60s, young, single women were enjoying a new level of freedom. For the first time, they were beginning to bust their butts in formerly male-dominated fields and explore premarital sex.

But the phenomenon was still so new that nobody was really talking about it — at least not in public. Although these forward-thinking women were definitely enjoying themselves, there was a small part of them that needed to know they weren't alone. Enter Helen Gurley Brown. In , the just-married copywriter penned Sex and the Single Girl, a fictional book about a swinging singleton who was leading this new kind of life. Not only did the book tell women they didn't need a man to be happy, but it also encouraged them to enjoy sex with whomever they damn well pleased — without guilt.

Those two messages struck a chord: Helen's book was an instant best-seller, and unattached girls everywhere were so psyched that someone had finally spoken to them, they flooded her with thank-you notes — and begged her for personal advice.

Helen realized that if she had her own magazine, she could answer all of these women at once, so she mapped out a proposal that explored her book's main messages.

I wanted to tell the truth : that sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.