The snake-swallowing slow death of print media isn't just affecting cute puppies (although that remains the single most important dilemma facing this generation) — it's also affecting impulse purchases in supermarket checkout lines.
Well, isn't this just a match made in boring sexy heaven! It was announced yesterday that romance publisher Harlequin will partner up with dumb-dumb lady magazine Cosmopolitan to produce Cosmo Hot Reads, a series of erotic e-books that will begin dropping in May, with two books (each title hovering around 30,000…
Cosmo's breaking the News You Use with their latest feature on 8 Weird Aphrodisiac Tricks From Around the World. Other cultures are crazy, am I right? Ladies? Ladies??
For months, lazy publicists and writers have been riffing off 50 Shades of Grey mania by pitching everything and anything Grey related, from sex toys to ties to nail polish. Perhaps Cosmopolitan for Latinas' Ariel Nagi deserves props for managing to combine lazy with offensive in her post, "50 Shades of Grey Sex -…
In Ladymag Land, the biggest issues of the year are the September issues. And this year, Vogue, Queen of the Ladymags, had its biggest issue ever. Nine hundred sixteen pages: Absolutely GIGANTIC. But all of the Ladymags celebrated the fall season in a huge way, and we could not let this momentous occasion pass without…
Today, the Guardian ran a 42-year-old piece on sexist advertising that shows very little has changed when it comes to shaming women into buying magazines, cosmetics, and "feminine hygiene products" by telling them they're inadequate at being perfect ladies.
I knew this was coming when the cashier in Barnes and Nobles saw me looking at Fifty Shades of Grey and stage-whispered: "I bought that for my mom, and now I'm just terrified that I'm going to go home and find my dad. In a cage. Bleeding or dead." BDSM is like soccer and socialized medicine; fascinating, but hard for…
It didn't take long for some to start trashing the legacy of Helen Gurley Brown after the Cosmo editor died earlier this week at 90 years old. It doesn't even make sense that anyone would question her legitimacy as a pioneer of the women's movement or even her credibility as a self-proclaimed feminist. Let's face it,…
Bonnie Fuller, head of HollywoodLife.com and former editor of multiple mags like Glamour and Marie Claire, has some thoughts about why most women's magazines have lackluster websites. While it should be noted that her most recent column for Ad Age is partially just a giant advertisement for her website and editorial…
Throughout my long tenure writing Ridiculous Tips For A Miserable Sex Life, I've taken aim at various targets, but one publication stands out as a bastion of weird and wacky sex advice — always chipper, always in a numbered list, and always ill-advised. Cosmo remains the ne plus ultra of usually implausible,…
Yesterday, a tipster pointed out that her local Wegmans in Rochester, NY appeared to have covered up Adele's cleavage on the cover of December's Cosmo. Now Wegmans has gotten back to us with the reason: they cover all Cosmos.
Yesterday, our friends across the Atlantic hosted the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards (not to be confused with American Glamour's simple Women Of The Year awards, which is not "ultimate"). The red carpet fashion over in London has got me thinking that perhaps we're doing it wrong over here, at least in…
Urban Outfitters may have changed the names of their non-Navajo-made "Navajo" products, but in the October issues, Navajo is still super cool.
In the October issue of , a caption reads, "Pixelated and magnified, a Najavo print becomes infinitely more modern." Infinitely! There is literally no limit to how modern…
We've discovered "what your va-jay-jay is dying to tell you": Don't pose for the cover of Cosmo unless you want to have your arms lopped off and reattached at an awkward angle. The mag did thoughtfully draw Dianna Agron a new, curvier silhouette — even though there's nothing wrong with her actual torso.
Ladies, we've finally achieved gender equality. With this commercial, Hearst announced the release of CFG: Cosmo for Guys, its first iPad-only magazine. It promises to supply men with the same moronic sex tips and inane musings on how to tell if your partner's cheating that ladies have been burdened with for…
Circa 1996, as one of the "101 Gorgeous Real Life Bachelors." Alas, not nearly as exciting as when Scott Brown appeared in the magazine. [Click to enlarge.]
When we heard that there was app from Cosmopolitan magazine that moaned, we were intrigued. So we downloaded it! Not only does it moan, it grunts, swears and curses (although the curses have been bleeped out by the Cosmo powers that be). It's all part of a story in the digital issue titled "Decode His Bedroom…
In the past few weeks I've seen two advice columns exhort men to manscaping. Granted, this "advice" came from Cosmo and Ashley Dupre, respectively. But the rationale seemed problematic.
In their admittedly unscientific study, Nina Orezzoli and Mark Robinson compared the ads in the March issues of Maxim, Cosmo and Essence that featured women's breasts, butts, and legs, as well as the amount of times that "T&A were used to sell T&A," like porn or phone sex ads. Essence featured 5% gratuitous body parts…
The March cover of Cosmo features Glee's resident "good girl" Lea Michele in a top that's cut nearly to her belly button. Cue the parental hand-wringing!
