Comments on: Cosmopolitan Can Totally Suck It

By: ghoulia

ghoulia — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:22:25 +0000

Cosmo taught me 1 really useful thing that I've kept with me for the last 20 years, and thought of just the other day: 'If he tells you you're too good for him, or he doesn't deserve you, he knows what he's talking about, and you should listen! And leave.' That, and that hunger pangs only last for 20 minutes.
All the rest is crap, as has been stated previously.

By: g

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:14:24 +0000

I quit buying Cosmo about 20 years ago, when one fateful day in the supermarket checkout line, I was reading 10 tips to lose 10 lbs… and one of them was to eat dog biscuits for a few days. ummm yeah…

By: Toy With Me

Toy With Me — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:32:48 +0000

Congratulations FrankieNichell!!

You won this week’s contest – an awesome basket full of luscious lube compliments of Astroglide.

You summed up the feelings of most with your Beauty Magazine Fire Logs. The perfect idea!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:49:20 +0000

Say “Ahh!”

Yes, laughing and cuddling is good too.

By: EmmBee

EmmBee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:42:32 +0000

For years I avoided Cosmo. Having no boyfriend or sexual relations for most of my twenties, all the magazine did was make me feel guilty for being single and fat. When I finally did get into a relationship, I bought the magazine regularly. It was like, “I finally can use all this fabulous sex advice!” After about a year, I had enough of it. I finally got enough self esteem to realize that Cosmo was a waste of money, and the key to a healthy relationship was talking to each other, and being willing to have fun experimenting sexually, laughing off the occasional failures. All those “understand what he thinks of you by the color of his sheets!” articles did was confuse things. Want to know what he thinks? ASK HIM. (And touch his penis. I second that as the best and only sex advice you really need.)

By: Aunt Becky

Aunt Becky — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:35:02 +0000

*applauds* Jason, you have it down pat. Well said, my friend. Well said.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:33:16 +0000

I think that “women’s magazines” are by far the cruellest thing that women have done to other women in recent times.

Pleasing a man is pretty easy. Feed him, lay him, don’t talk too much. We’re not particularly complicated.

You don’t have to be a size zero, or a perfect 10. Just be interested, smile a bit, laugh at his feeble jokes.

By: lydee

lydee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:54:29 +0000

I totally agree with the recycled articles thing! I thought the same thing after a few years of reading Teen and Seventeen, “sort of a been there, done that” type of thing. Cosmo, to me, was always the grown up version of Seventeen, the two seemed very similar. I quit reading cosmo for the same reason: i began to feel bad about myself.

By: TheBeerLady

TheBeerLady — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:53 +0000

I’ve never been much of a fan of Cosmo, or any of the other ‘beauty’ magazines. Although I must admit that in high school, I would buy them and regularly take them with me on the team bus to events to share. Not with other girls, mind you. I was a photographer and kept stats for the (boys) wrestling team and the (boys) baseball team. And high school guys LOVE Cosmo. I mean, where else do they get a free pass to look at nearly naked women? Well, OK, high school guys now might not get the same thrill, what with internet porn and all, but at least back then, Cosmo worked well. (And oddly enough, seems to still attract the attention of men my own age – maybe it’s that early imprinting.)

Like so many others have mentioned, I did succumb to the temptation to ask a male friend once the “what is it that women can do that really make a man want them?” His take on it is that there are two things – breathe in and out, and say ‘yes.’ In his estimation, if all the guy is interested in is getting his rocks off, it really doesn’t matter what she looks like or what she does, all she has to do is be willing – anything else is just gravy. Hence the success of such song classics as “The Women All Get Prettier At Closing Time.”

By: Aurora

Aurora — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:18:53 +0000

Cosmo has very little to offer any woman with two brain cells to rub together. It’s been shown that 2 minutes reading Cosmo can lower a woman’s self esteem. 2 minutes. That’s less time than it takes to make a TV dinner. Why would I subject myself to that on a regular basis? I’ll admit to having bought an issue or two, usually for an interview with a star I like. For their level of sex advice, you might as well get one of the position a day books and have at. It’ll probably be more useful and is often pretty funny.