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Cosmopolitan Magazine
is hurting your kids!

The Hearst Corporation publishes COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, also known as COSMO. It contains PORNOGRAPHY and Victoria Hearst is on a mission to keep it away from our children.
Today's Cosmopolitan Magazine has nothing in common, in look or content, with the original magazine that was created in the late 19th century by a company called Schlicht and Field of New York. Named The Cosmopolitan and first published in 1886, it was a wholesome family/women's magazine.
Mr. Paul Schlicht assured his readers that his magazine was a "first-class family magazine" and "there will be a department devoted exclusively to the concerns of women, with articles on fashions, on household decoration, on cooking, and the care and management of children, etc..."
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), founder of the The Hearst Corporation publishing and media empire, bought The Cosmopolitan in 1905. He hired journalists and authors like Charles Edward Russell, O. Henry, Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Upton Sinclair to contribute articles and stories to the magazine.
William Randolph Hearst died in 1951. The decade of the '50s was tough on magazines due to television and paperback books, among other things, causing Cosmopolitan's circulation to drop to just over 1 million by 1955.

In 1965, 14 years after Victoria’s grandfather's death, the Hearst Corporation hired Helen Gurley Brown as chief editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine. That is when a "first-class family magazine" turned into a sex rag with a "Love and Lust" section containing: