Posted on 03/28/2018 7:10:25 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The nation's largest retailer has bounced Cosmopolitan from the coveted checkout aisle following a years-long campaign targeting the women's magazine for its "hyper-sexualized" covers and content.
Walmart said Tuesday that it was removing the magazine from checkout lines at its 5,000 stores across the country.
"Walmart will continue to offer Cosmopolitan to customers that wish to purchase the magazine, but it will no longer be in the checkout aisles," the company said in a statement. "While this was primarily a business decision, the concerns raised were heard."
Those concerns were raised by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which compares Cosmo to porn and has waged a campaign for years to get it removed from store shelves. It had previously succeeded in getting Rite Aid stores and Delhaize America (which owns Food Lion) to put Cosmopolitan behind blinders, according to USA Today.
"Cosmo sends the same messages about female sexuality as Playboy," NCOSE, which changed its name from Morality in Media three years ago said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Most were very well done exhibits of the female form. Excellent photography, not porn.
What? No more “44 ways to a better orgasm” in the checkout line?
“... 44 ways to a better orgasm...”
When my daughter was four, I had taken her to the grocery store with me. She was doing very well with Hooked on Phonics.. and sounded out words. I’m putting groceries on the conveyer belt and I hear, “Mommy, what’s an or-gazm?” Of course, being four... she asked me LOUDLY and you could hear a pin drop all around me. She had “read” the cover of Cosmo and sounded out that word. I turned the cover of the magazine around and said, “Um.... it’s something that curls your hair”. For the life of me, I don’t know how I came up with that response or why BUT this little event triggered quite the discussion with clerks and customers... everyone being on board that certain magazines should be either in certain aisles or one aisle left without magazines that are “more adult” in nature.
These days, as a middle-aged male, I stand in checkout lines and look at all of the beautiful women on the covers of Cosmo, Glamour and Vogue, and the first thing that pops into my brain is “She’s probably about my daughter’s age.”
Man, does that scrooooo with your mind!
I agree on the excellence of the photography of the female form. It's not hardcore porn, but porn nonetheless.
“It would surprise me if in an average month across the US....Walmart sold more than 12,000 copies of Cosmo.”
well, Walmart DID say it was mostly a business decision ...
“Most shifted to some political focus and I gave up on them.”
indeed. nearly ALL magazines have become nothing but propaganda organs for the far left, ranging from Pop Science and Consumer Reports to Scientific American and everything in between ...
For a year or so I had a cheap subscription to Bloomberg News as I watch the stock market fairly close. But as the 2016 election heated up, their political views "trumped" any business content value and I canceled midstream I was surprised that I got a partial refund. Now they are pelting me with junk mail trying to get me to resubscribe. ...........no thanks.
I used to subscribed to several of the car magazines until they started making political jabs and adding global warming/CO2 stats to the articles. I let the subs run out and moved to buying only when I could read them on a plane.
A couple of years ago I found I never finished the magazines on a trip like I used to. They would come home and sit on the back of the toilet until I finally threw them away, never finished, and 50% more expensive than they were 10 years prior. I don’t buy magazines for trips anymore.
The political commentary and the move to “better writing” with flowery language meant for lady-men ruined those publications for me.
Ha, ha! Great story.
This was Victoria Heart,s goal. https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/hearst-heiress-thanks-jesus-after-walmart-pulls-cosmo-from-checkout-lines/
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