Buying Cosmo off the magazine rack could eventually look like purchasing Playboy or Penthouse if some eager youngsters get their way.
A new petition on change.org that’s ironically been backed by the daughter of former Hearst Corp. chairman Randolph A. Hearst, Vanessa Hearst, and started by model and aspiring actress Nicole Weider, is pushing for Cosmopolitan to be packaged in nontransparent packaging and only sold to adults 18 and older due to it’s racy content.
We all know every month Cosmo is going to show you another
365 ways to have an orgasm, make your man melt in the bedroom, or have a
triathlon-like night of sex, but as hard as it may be to believe, the magazine
has calmed down from what it was in it’s hey dey. I doubt many grown women in
control of their sexuality are wooed by their sexy salacious headlines but with
the trend that 10- and 11-year olds are likely reading Cosmo Girl, and
13-17-year-olds Cosmo, while actual adult women have moved on to something more
appropriate for their maturity level, the concern is real.
Weider sent a letter to FTC Secretary Jon Leibowitz along
with issues of the magazine in which she flagged several suspect features like
references to anal sex, sexting, casual hookups, threesomes, and an article
with URLs to female-friendly porn, asking:
“How is this even legal? If it’s an adult magazine just sell
it to adults.”
So far, 33,000 people and counting agree with that sentiment.
That’s the number who have signed Weider’s petition and want to prevent more
girls from experiencing negative consequences like having their hearts broken,
getting pregnant, or catching STDs as a result of following the magazine’s
advice as Weider says hundreds of girls as young as 11 have written and told
her about.
Obviously, this effort doesn’t leave room for much parental
intervention, which should already be in place to stop girls from reading
material that’s not appropriate for their age anyway, but it seems in the eyes
of these petitioners reading Cosmo is as dangerous to underage girls as smoking
cigarettes or taking a drink. What do you think?
Should you
have to be 18 to buy Cosmo?
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