Cosmopolitan covered up in U.S. stores after advocates label it 'porn'

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cosm...porn-1.3229403

Some major U.S. chains are pledging to shield Cosmo from customers after group says it 'harms minors'

In a news release, campaigners contend that the magazine has morphed into a "verbally, and many times visually pornographic 'how-to' sex guide" that is now targeting young girls.

The crusade is spearheaded by Victoria Hearst, a born-again Christian and the granddaughter of newspaper icon William Randolph Hearst, who founded Cosmo's publishing company.

Hearst and her co-campaigners with the American National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) argue the magazine should be shielded from children and covered up in stores, just like Playboy.

"We are asking that Cosmo be sold to adults only and have the cover wrapped like all other porn magazines in retail shops," said NCOSE spokeswoman Haley Halverson.



Cosmopolitan magazine also doesn't feel anyone needs to be protected from its publication.

"The idea that the magazine should be classified as pornography is laughable," stated Hearst Corporation in an email. The publisher of Cosmo said the magazine "presents an honest look at women's sexuality," along with coverage on a gamut of issues such as careers, health, finance, beauty and fashion.

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Oh Cosmo shouldn't be sold to minors, but not cuz it's porn, but because of all the photoshopped crap they display giving girls a completely unhealthy picture of what beauty is. That being said, I really don't give 2 craps, it shouldn't be covered at all, but be forced to be sold with the disclaimer that the images are in fact, doctored.

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The US and its fear of sex, from a European POV, this is one of those things we just do not understand.

"We need to protect our children from the dangers of sex by pretending it doesn't exist"

Let me know how that works out

[Doctor Amadeus]

Yeah, I agree with Haley Halverson, not on the religious front, but yeah, I wouldn't want this smut on the shelves where just any kid can see it.

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Yeah, I agree with Haley Halverson, not on the religious front, but yeah, I wouldn't want this smut on the shelves where just any kid can see it.

Thats like, so weird, what harm would be done to the kid if he saw pin-ups or nude? Children run around naked all the time. They aren't going to become nymphomaniacs because they saw some sexy poster or something.

Oh Cosmo shouldn't be sold to minors, but not cuz it's porn, but because of all the photoshopped crap they display giving girls a completely unhealthy picture of what beauty is. That being said, I really don't give 2 craps, it shouldn't be covered at all, but be forced to be sold with the disclaimer that the images are in fact, doctored.

This is a more valid reason, I'd rather have my kids be protected from this then from pornographic images.

[Aqua]

Oh Cosmo shouldn't be sold to minors, but not cuz it's porn, but because of all the photoshopped crap they display giving girls a completely unhealthy picture of what beauty is. That being said, I really don't give 2 craps, it shouldn't be covered at all, but be forced to be sold with the disclaimer that the images are in fact, doctored.

This. I see cartoon characters with more realistic proportions somedays. Shouldn't be put away in the 'amg sex smut aaa think of the children' pile, but it's still harmful in more insidious ways.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Thats like, so weird, what harm would be done to the kid if he saw pin-ups or nude? Children run around naked all the time. They aren't going to become nymphomaniacs because they saw some sexy poster or something.

Well first off we already regulate some magazines to be sold out of reach and out of view of children, for primarily the same issues I see with this Cosmo cover, now me personally I am not offended, but all the same, I think there is a valid argument to be made about it, similar to some characterized this.




Which by comparison I think is tame, and the only way you are really going to get anything out of "50 Shades of grey" is if you sit down and read it.

[Keosen]

It's really ironic that we allow violence in all forms of entertainment but we act like the sky if falling when a nipple slips.

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Well first off we already regulate some magazines to be sold out of reach and out of view of children, for primarily the same issues I see with this Cosmo cover, now me personally I am not offended, but all the same, I think there is a valid argument to be made about it, similar to some characterized this.

Which by comparison I think is tame, and the only way you are really going to get anything out of "50 Shades of grey" is if you sit down and read it.

I agree mostly that you should protect young children from pornographic material, but it seems to me that, in the US, pornographic material is defined as "anything in which a woman poses in a sexual manner".

In Germany for example, you have advertisement of pornograpy and sex everywhere, in newspapers, on the street, in shops. Somehow their children are not perverted and nymphomaniacs, somehow there teen pregancy is rare and somehow STD's aren't rampant.

Meanwhile in the US, teen pregancy is popularized on tv, but show a niple and your program is sinfull and corrupting children, makes you think doesn't it?

[Hooked]

They should at least offer an eye bleach warning.

[Jakexe]

Yeah, I agree with Haley Halverson, not on the religious front, but yeah, I wouldn't want this smut on the shelves where just any kid can see it.

Never take your kids to the beach, they'll have to deal with real women wearing that stuff. They'll never recover from all the rl smut.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I agree mostly that you should protect young children from pornographic material, but it seems to me that, in the US, pornographic material is defined as "anything in which a woman poses in a sexual manner".

In Germany for example, you have advertisement of pornograpy and sex everywhere, in newspapers, on the street, in shops. Somehow their children are not perverted and nymphomaniacs, somehow there teen pregancy is rare and somehow STD's aren't rampant.

Meanwhile in the US, teen pregancy is popularized on tv, but show a niple and your program is sinfull and corrupting children, makes you think doesn't it?

Weeeell... I wouldn't go so far as to say it is about protecting children, I mean, I'm sure it is about more than that seeing as how there are some elements to religion in this but, all the same yes, and I would also agree it's weird society seems more hung up about this than some of the violent content more readily available, but there you have it.

I just agree based on the cover, I can understand the objections.

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Never take your kids to the beach, they'll have to deal with real women wearing that stuff. They'll never recover from all the rl smut.

Well context is everything, I don't think the photo alone is what's causing the stir.

[Revi]

I kinda get it. So ridiculously desensitized to it now that half naked women in media barely registers anymore, but if I saw someone dressed like that walking around in public, I'd think it was inappropriate.

I'm not sure I agree with having to cover it up, but I get why it bothers them.

[Flutterguy]

People still buy magazines?

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Yeah, I agree with Haley Halverson, not on the religious front, but yeah, I wouldn't want this smut on the shelves where just any kid can see it.

here you can quite plainly see porn mags on the shelves in the local shop, the film rental shop i use to go to as a kid has a massive adult films section next to the regular section, didn't do me any harm seeing all that stuff.

[Grimbold21]

Porn? Has this person heard of the internet?

[Kathandira]

It's been said already, but I agree that this isn't the reason Cosmo shouldn't be available to young women. The real reason is because the damaging message it sends women about how they should look, and how they should act.

[haxartus]

It's really ironic that we allow violence in all forms of entertainment but we act like the sky if falling when a nipple slips.

I think that there was a statistic that the average person watches thousands of murders on TV before they are 18.

[Feali]

Here in Germany we have tits in the afternoon program like it's normal.
Fucking US and your fear of anything related to sex.

[haxartus]

Here in Germany we have tits in the afternoon program like it's normal.
Fucking US and your fear of anything related to sex.

The US is obsessed with murdering people, not with creating them.