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Cosmo Girl Has The Spiciest -- And Smartest -- Advice When It Comes To Teen Sex

Down Under, two of the major teen magazines, rivals Dolly and Girlfriend, are banding together to fight government suggestions that the magazines come with "audience age recommendations," because of the sexually-explicit nature of their question-and answer-sections. According to the Daily Telegraph, "Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex." (Because if they don't read the magazine, their questions will magically disappear, right?) Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told a government inquiry, "We see it as a service. It's our responsibility to provide the correct information rather than them (readers) saying to their 15-year-old friend, 'my boyfriend wants me to do this, how do I deal with it?'" We decided to see what kind of advice the American teen magazines are giving their readership. A look at sex coverage on the websites of Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, Elle Girl, YM and Seventeen, after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jessica
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Latest by n/a: My mum used to hate me reading teen magazines, I once got caught reading Just Seventeen and my mum went ballistic and grounded me. I was about 15 at the time, but she was very protective. I wasn't even allowed more »