Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan, or simply Cosmo, is a magazine published monthly from New York by the Hearst Corporation. It was founded in 1886 as a "magazine for the whole family". The current editor-in-chief is Kate White.

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Magazine - New York - Hearst Corporation - 1886 - Kate White

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Through the years, Cosmopolitan magazine has been able to open versions in 32 languages, such as Spanish, Swedish, Romanian and French. It reaches readers in more than 100 countries worldwide. It was banned in Singapore until recently.

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Spanish - Swedish - Romanian - French - Singapore

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In earlier incarnations, such as under John Brisben Walker from 1889 to 1905, it was one of America's leading markets for fiction, and for a briefer period was known for important investigative journalism.

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John Brisben Walker - 1889 - 1905

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Circulation had been in decline for years, until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965,

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Helen Gurley Brown - 1965

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and remodeled the magazine. Cosmopolitan became a women's magazine complete with a sexy cover shot every month of a woman (usually) in a low cut dress or bikini.

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Women - Bikini

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In recent years the magazine, and in particular, its cover stories, have become more sexually explicit in tone.

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Cosmopolitan in the UK started in the early 1970s. It was well known for its sexual explictness, especially with strong sexual language, male nudity (although not showing the genitals, or it would be considered pornographic) and sexual themes such as rape.

Related Topics:
1970s - Nudity - Pornographic - Rape

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More recently they have designed a spinoff magazine, CosmoGirl, targeting a young female

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audience.

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