February 11, 2011
Opposing sexualized magazines at the checkout counter is one of the battles this ministry has taken on over the years. As we’ve often said, we and our families should be able to wait in a checkout lane at a family supermarket without being assaulted with erotic images and verbiage on magazine covers.
Of course the worst offender is Cosmopolitan magazine. Cosmo is notorious for splashing lewd headlines and photos on their magazine covers. The current magazine has titles such as:
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February 15, 2010
Placing blinders over Cosmopolitan.
A leading department store chain in the mid-west, Meijer, Inc., based in Grand Rapids, MI has been making good strides in placing blinders over Cosmopolitan magazine.
A recent survey of several stores in the greater Grand Rapid, MI area revealed that various Meijer outlets are placing blinders over Cosmopolitan magazine.
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February 1, 2010
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown says he has “no regrets” about posing nude for a 1982 Cosmopolitan magazine photo spread. In an exclusive ABC “This Week” interview (January 31), Brown told Barbara Walters “you have to have a sense of humor about yourself,” and links the centerfold to many of his successes that came later in life. “If I hadn’t done that… I never would have been sitting here with you. It’s all connected,” Brown told Walters.
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