Is Cosmo magazine female pornography?

[AkronPonderer]

Plenty of graphical pornography in the issues I looked through, plus it seems to teach manipulation of men and objectification of females.

Should any Christian admit to reading it?

 

[mommyof4]

I just read it for the articles.

 

[thechrismyster]

I just read it for the articles.

there are articles in there?.. i was under the assumption cosmo was 210 pages of advertisements with an occasional spot article written around a specific product.

 

[SeekerJen]

there are articles in there?.. i was under the assumption cosmo was 210 pages of advertisements with an occasional spot article written around a specific product.

No, that’s Vogue. Cosmo does have articles, they’re mainly of the “Get Your Perfect Body in 10 Days!”, “Five Fabulous Hair Fixes”, “Every Man’s Sex Fantasies Explained!” and “When It’s an STD and What to Do” types.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Many years back a truck driver where my father worked kept a stash of pornographic novels which he read for their “literary” value. A favorite pastime among his fellow workers was to pull alternate pages out of them - He never noticed. LOL

 

[fiat1122]

No, that’s Vogue. Cosmo does have articles, they’re mainly of the “Get Your Perfect Body in 10 Days!”, “Five Fabulous Hair Fixes”, “Every Man’s Sex Fantasies Explained!” and “When It’s an STD and What to Do” types.

yuo, and many magzines like this show women in panties, and thongs, sad.

 

[Pug]

No, that’s Vogue. Cosmo does have articles, they’re mainly of the “Get Your Perfect Body in 10 Days!”, “Five Fabulous Hair Fixes”, “Every Man’s Sex Fantasies Explained!” and “When It’s an STD and What to Do” types.

Jen is right about the selection of articles. Consider the woman who is having trouble in her marriage, whose husband seems to be looking at porn or at other women, and she is sitting in the grocery aisle sad about the whole thing and feeling like she is helpless and can do nothing. It is this woman who looks at the cover and thinks maybe, just maybe it can help her to change something she has control over (herself) so that she is more what her husband wants so the marriage will improve. Of course, it won’t, but that magazine always has a nice little quiz in it. So the woman can feel a little better taking it and seeing that she isn’t all that bad compared to what she could have scored.

I suspect this isn’t the only woman who buys the magazine, but women in that situation need our prayers and love.

 

[Teakafrog]

They are also extremely pro-abortion. That’s why I stopped reading it. More and more militant about ‘choice’–the only acceptable one, of course, was to kill your baby so it didn’t cramp your lifestyle. I sure don’t give them my money anymore.

 

[LittleRose]

A lot of women’ts magazines advocate recreational sex, artificial birth control, and encourage women to make the highest priorities in their lives revolve around looking attractive, and pleasing men in bed. Magazines for teenage girls are almost as bad. My mother very wisely forbade any of that rot in our house when I was growing up. Though I didn’t fully understand how bad these magazines are at that time, I have no stomach for them now, and have no intention of letting any of my daughters read them either.

 

[aurora77]

No, that’s Vogue. Cosmo does have articles, they’re mainly of the “Get Your Perfect Body in 10 Days!”, “Five Fabulous Hair Fixes”, “Every Man’s Sex Fantasies Explained!” and “When It’s an STD and What to Do” types.

Pretty much. It’s all about why we’re too fat and ugly to get a man, and then how to hold on to him once we manage to catch him. My personal favorites are the articles on “Is he cheating–the 5 signs to watch out for!”

A friend in college compared an issue of Playboy with the same month’s issue of Cosmo. If you factor in that Cosmo is much less explicit with it’s nudity, there were actually more nude photos in Cosmo than in the Playboy!

 

[Celia]

They are also extremely pro-abortion. That’s why I stopped reading it. More and more militant about ‘choice’–the only acceptable one, of course, was to kill your baby so it didn’t cramp your lifestyle. I sure don’t give them my money anymore.

This is the reason I stopped reading most of the young women’s magazines out there. Even Vogue, after they had an article a couple months ago about “fighting for womens reproductive rights” or some such crud. They just assume that every woman out there is pro-choice…well, they’re not. And they’ve lost at least one potential subscriber over it. I refuse to give money to a publication that is going to turn around and donate to like Planned Parenthood or something.

Anymore I just read Allure and Fitness. So far they’re safe, who knows for how long though.

 

[Little_Flower]

In a word, yes! I wouldn’t spend one penny on the magazine, or spend one minute reading it.

 

[fin]

there are articles on sexual positions and the like, so it’s not advisable to read it, esp. if you have kids at home. the catchphrase of the local edition here is fun fearless female.

 

[paramedicgirl]

There’s really no dignity in reading Cosmo. You can tell that by the cover.

 

[fiat1122]

there are articles on sexual positions and the like, so it’s not advisable to read it, esp. if you have kids at home. the catchphrase of the local edition here is fun fearless female.

Stop, now your getting ME interested, and i am a male in his early 30’s.

 

[SeekerJen]

They are also extremely pro-abortion. That’s why I stopped reading it. More and more militant about ‘choice’–the only acceptable one, of course, was to kill your baby so it didn’t cramp your lifestyle. I sure don’t give them my money anymore.

I picked up a copy of Marie Claire in the hopes of finding a cute hairstyle photo to take to my stylist tomorrow. In the past I’ve usually liked that mag, but I couldn’t believe it when I got home and flipped it open to “The Last Clinic Standing”. Yup, all about those poor, persecuted pro-aborts running the last abortion mill in South Dakota, and how evil the pro-lifers are. I’ll never buy that one again.

I agree with whoever said Allure is one of the only good ones. No serious articles, just fashion and fun makeup and hair goodies. I wish the store had that one stocked on the rack instead.

 

[phantom]

Many years back a truck driver where my father worked kept a stash of pornographic novels which he read for their “literary” value. A favorite pastime among his fellow workers was to pull alternate pages out of them - He never noticed. LOL

Now that is funny.

 

[Nurse_Joy]

I’ve been watching the cover for months (years?) now and top feature is “how to have great sex” or some variation thereof.

Now, if it actually worked, why would they have run the same concept every month? Answer: It doesn’t work. They run it every month because its PORN. You are a creepy dirty old (wo)man if you keep lusting over the same porn books / mags forever. But a fresh issue of Cosmo… now you have some cover.