The cover up/ ban Cosmo from grocery stores movement

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I heard a former model talk about this on a Catholic Radio Station.
If one woman has her way, you won’t be seeing headlines like “75 Sex Moves” and “Foreplay Men Crave” in the grocery store checkout line anymore.
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Cosmopolitan magazine released its February issue this week featuring 17-year-old Dakota Fanning as the cover girl, surrounded by article captions such as “His Best Sex Ever,” “Too Naughty To Stay Here: But You Have to Try This Sex Trick.”
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The cover was the perfect example of what for model Nicole Weider wants banned from grocery stores and newsstands.
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Read more: foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/06/petition-to-ban-cosmopolitan-magazine-from-stores-gets-over-10000-signatures/#ixzz26skq4JD1
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I do admire a number of models who have come out against the way we see sex presented in our society.

I totally agree and am glad at least when I go to our local supermarket, they at least cover up the Cosmo cover. But then, I was in Walgreen’s tonight and exactly, they had the brash headlines on it.

Sure, I believe in free speech but, I’ve got to say I think those magazines go too far and Cosmopolitan isn’t the only one but may be the most noticeable and perhaps notorious one out there.

Newsweek is going out of print so what can we say? Some magazines seem to have a tough time but others come out all the same.
 
I agree, they should cover up the covers, just as they do (do they still?) with the “men’s magazines” at the liquor stores.
 
When I moved to Minnesota, I saw at convenience stores, someone, who knows would take the magazines and place them backwards so what you see is the advertisement on the back of the ones at the counter. So not having experienced seeing someone do that before softened me up a bit.

Though Minnesota is thought to be a “liberal state” for the most part, it’s not like what I saw in the Southwest where in the past at least, one could see the men’s magazines for sale behind the counter. Kind of unbelievable in retrospect.
 
I’m sorry but no girl under 18 should be on the cover of Cosmo. There are plenty of teen mags for them to grace the front of. :twocents:
 
Cosmopolitan should be banned from grocery stores. It’s not “Cosmopolitan” anymore. How many sex secrets are we up to over the years? 5,000 - 10,000 ?

It should just change it’s name to How to Have SEX, so decent, moral, God-fearing people will not be persuaded that it’s about anything else - not really. Just like old issues of Playboy used to have well-written articles and interviews, that was not its primary appeal. Cosmo should not be sold in grocery stores.

Peace,
Ed
 
Our local stores do cover it.

I personally don’t read it, because I already have a career that I love, I already know how to apply makeup, I dress to please myself and don’t give a damn about “fashion,” and I have no desire to “please a man” or “make him fall in love” with me.

My daughters read it, though. 🤷

Jala
 
I’m definitely not one of those who sees a conspiracy around every corner, but I used to subscribe to a few fitness magazines and I have dropped all of them except for Runner’s World. I could deal with a sex article once a year or so, but it got so there was one in every issue! I still get Sports Illustrated, I just toss the swimsuit issue.
 
I’ve stopped buying Cosmo because of the all of the sex articles - how times can they rehash sex columns using different titles. I’d much rather read Glamour as they do write about other things besides sex.
 
Anyone else notice that 9 times out of 10 Cosmo magazine is at the eye level of children in the store check out lines?
 
livingwordunity said:
Anyone else notice that 9 times out of 10 Cosmo magazine is at the eye level of children in the store check out lines?
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I don’t want to judge corporations negatively but just on this issue, Walgreen’s has them out there and even before I heard about this story, one time I told the cashier some time in the last year, “those magazines are embarrassing.”

I would think Walgreen’s gets some sort of benefit, payment from Cosmo to put it so prominently in their stores and after all, Walgreen’s is a cosmetics seller along with other personal care products.

The current Cosmos has one headline I think that’s pretty negative.

Many of us, maybe not all, have been pulled in and tricked by the media, it be magazines, movies, music, etc.
 
edwest2 said:
Cosmopolitan should be banned from grocery stores. It’s not “Cosmopolitan” anymore. How many sex secrets are we up to over the years? 5,000 - 10,000 ?

It should just change it’s name to How to Have SEX, so decent, moral, God-fearing people will not be persuaded that it’s about anything else - not really. Just like old issues of Playboy used to have well-written articles and interviews, that was not its primary appeal. Cosmo should not be sold in grocery stores.

Peace,
Ed
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You would have to be illiterate to not know that it had a lot about sex in every issue.

There’s a lot of other stuff too, and some of it has been pretty useful to me (recipes, news articles, decorating, safety, etc) but I stopped reading it a couple years ago because I just out grew it. I had read every issue from the time I was 16 until I was 24 and I had just read enough. I was grown up and it was repetitive.

But for several years it was the big sister I never had.
 
Cosmo and others like it are pointless drivel. Ultimately, there’s no point in reading those things.
 
Our local grocery stores cover them up - and I applaud them.

Cosmo is absolute garbage - it desensitizes you to the problems of objectifying women. It reduces the beauty of sex to “getting the best you can get.” It is incredibly immodest and raunchy. Why waste paper on immorality?
 
BlueEyedLady said:
You would have to be illiterate to not know that it had a lot about sex in every issue.

There’s a lot of other stuff too, and some of it has been pretty useful to me (recipes, news articles, decorating, safety, etc) but I stopped reading it a couple years ago because I just out grew it. I had read every issue from the time I was 16 until I was 24 and I had just read enough. I was grown up and it was repetitive.

But for several years it was the big sister I never had.
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If you look at Cosmopolitan from the beginning, it did not have such articles. But over the years, it is catering primarily to man’s baser instincts. Something every culture that calls itself civilized can do without.

Peace,
Ed
 
LaMusicaSenior said:
Our local grocery stores cover them up - and I applaud them.

Cosmo is absolute garbage - it desensitizes you to the problems of objectifying women. It reduces the beauty of sex to “getting the best you can get.” It is incredibly immodest and raunchy. Why waste paper on immorality?
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Isn’t it interesting that women who don’t want to be viewed as “sex objects” or “sex toys” for men are being portrayed as exactly that? Where are the women who say this is wrong?

Peace,
Ed
 
edwest2 said:
Isn’t it interesting that women who don’t want to be viewed as “sex objects” or “sex toys” for men are being portrayed as exactly that? Where are the women who say this is wrong?

Peace,
Ed
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I guess that they actually support garbage like Cosmo instead of condemning it.
 
I should have called this a “campaign” and not “movement”, also maybe could have gone under the popular media area under Catholic living. Oh well.
 
LaMusicaSenior said:
Our local grocery stores cover them up - and I applaud them.

Cosmo is absolute garbage - it desensitizes you to the problems of objectifying women. It reduces the beauty of sex to “getting the best you can get.” It is incredibly immodest and raunchy. Why waste paper on immorality?
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Indeed. Cosmo is absolute garbage. I wish they would talk about something else other than sex! It’s really annoying.
 
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