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While the idea is patent nonsense on the grounds of censorship, I do believe it does make a valid point worth discussing. Despite being much classier and tasteful in tone and content, most bookstores and newsstands relegate magazines like Maxim to the same section where you find Hustler and Penthouse, yet magazines like Cosmo which are blatantly peddling sex to teenagers are right out front with Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal?

Again, I'm not arguing the merits of selling sex to teens, that's a different discussion for a different topic, but why is it that we, as a society, deem this to be acceptable, but similar content directed at a male audience is not, or at least is less so? My sister used to leave Cosmo magazines lying around, and the articles inside easily rival that of anything you'd see in Penthouse, just without the nudity.

Now I'm not saying we should censor this stuff or ban it, I'm not a Holy Roller like that, but I just find it interesting that Cosmo can be displayed prominently on the shelf at Wal*Mart, but people would freak out if they decided to carry Playboy. Hell, I remember for a while places like Walgreens and Wal*Mart wouldn't even carry Maxim because the religious types had a problem with it, but yet Cosmo always gets a free pass.
 
Cosmo was one of the early magazines I would go to for a cheap thrill because it was so accepted in the house. I'd read the sex stuff and look a the bra ads. Back in the day those kinds of magazines had some nudity. It was a lot easier to get a hold of than the Playboys. So no, don't boycott or ban it. It has its place among young boys in America.

But there is hypocrisy there. As you said, Maxim is relegated to the stands, whereas Cosmo is in your face. A similar phenomenon occurs in music and radio. Pop music is very much sexualized today but accepted in the car. Mothers will turn it on for their teenage daughters and their friends while taking them to school or soccer practice or whatever. Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" features a girl getting drunk at a party, passing out and references an orgy. This is what 14-year-old girls listen to on free terrestrial radio.

Yet over the years it was The Howard Stern Show, a show made by adults for adults, that became a pariah and pursued by family groups and the FCC. Market research demonstrated that kids and teens didn't even listen to it. Not even 20-somethings were that interested. But now you turn on the radio and kids listen to domestic violence carols.

So yeah, it's weird what people get worked up about. I say don't get offended about anything.
 
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I always thought Cosmo was aimed towards the mid-20's to mid-30's crowd and probably had dual subscription status with Cat Fancy the older the demo got.
 
I've always thought it was sexism "market demographics" at work.

I.e., men don't grocery shop, therefore "women's magazines" (cosmo, soap opera bullshit, brand name pap for unimaginative, unskilled homemakers masquerading as holiday baking guides) dominate checkout lanes.
 
The headlines on the Cosmo cover are often nastier than those I've seen on Playboy. There's definitely a double standard. Should it be banned from newsstands though? Not really.
 
But where will women learn 209 ways to please their man with EVERY SINGLE ISSUE?

By my count, there's about 12 billion ways to keep me happy, which is WAY MORE than the four I can actively count.
 
[quote name='willardhaven']Put the porno out in the open too. Everybody wins.[/QUOTE]

:lol: Yes. We have too many censors to prevent children from maturing. Let them grow slowly, effectively, instead of all at once when they watch their first Lady Gaga music video.
 
Obviously don't ban it, but I agree, make it harder to get. There's no way you can have people be up in arms about half naked women and then still prominently display a magazine that has sentences such as "I like when a girl gives me some finger action in the backdoor."
 
[quote name='davo1224']Obviously don't ban it, but I agree, make it harder to get. There's no way you can have people be up in arms about half naked women and then still prominently display a magazine that has sentences such as "I like when a girl gives me some finger action in the backdoor."[/QUOTE]

How about we just stop being so up-in-arms about half-naked women?
 
[quote name='Fanboy']How about we just stop being so up-in-arms about half-naked women?[/QUOTE]

Indeed. It's absurd how prudish the US is about nudity and sex, but hardly bats an eye and violent content. Other than the uproar over violent games due to the stigma that video games are for kids.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Indeed. It's absurd how prudish the US is about nudity and sex, but hardly bats an eye and violent content. Other than the uproar over violent games due to the stigma that video games are for kids.[/QUOTE]
It's funny, people often say it's a puritanical stance when poeple are prudish about this, or drinking, drugs, etc. Yet even the puritans drank alcohol.:lol:
 
Not this shit again. When will people learn that sex and nudity are okay. I wonder what these folks would think about all the topless billboards throughout Europe.
 
[quote name='kill3r7']Not this shit again. When will people learn that sex and nudity are okay. I wonder what these folks would think about all the topless billboards throughout Europe.[/QUOTE]
I think it would probably cause a lot of accidents within the vicinity of the billboard.:lol:
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Indeed. It's absurd how prudish the US is about nudity and sex, but hardly bats an eye and violent content. Other than the uproar over violent games due to the stigma that video games are for kids.[/QUOTE]

Don't forget that alcohol ads can't show people drinking alcohol but can feature talking dogs and magical pirates.

Not to mention that everyone seems to know what the Christian god hates even when it is not supported by or flat out contradicts the Christian bible.

It's a delightful land of hypocrisy!
 
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