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We Read It So You Don’t Have To: Spilling the Secrets of Cosmopolitan’s Cover Lines
Sexy sex with him? Sexier sex clothes! Hair sex fashion sex naked sexy sex. To my admittedly biased eye, that’s what the cover lines of Cosmopolitan look like every single month. Each new issue kicks off an
anxious inner monologue: Didn’t they promote those exact same stories last month? Why can’t they find a synonym for “sexy”? What is that one thing he wishes I knew about his body? Um, is anyone going to see me buying this? Better pick up a newspaper, too. See, newsstand guy, I’m smart! I’m just inordinately interested in shoving my cleavage up to my collarbone and finding out what’s really on his mind.
It would save me an awful lot of newsstand dithering if there were a quick, easy way to divine the solutions to the oh-so-important (and sexy!) dilemmas posed on the cover. So, in the interest of providing this valuable public service, I bought the September issue and read the articles highlighted on the cover to find the answers. Spoiler alert!