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(CNN) – Cosmpolitan Magazine is catching some heat for its latest cover. Critics say the Cosmo is trying to exploit young readers with material that’s too mature for them.
Selena Gomez’s fans love her. The Disney Channel “Wizards of Waverly Place” turned Gomez into a teen sensation, and a regular on kid fan magazines.
HLN’s Showbiz Tonight can tell you Selena’s latest magazine cover is parking big outrage.
This is her on Cosmopolitan Magazine, but the controversy is not about the photo. It’s about the copy surrounding Selena.
Check this out: “50 Sex Tips: Readers Share the Naughtiest Moves They Discovered All on Their Own.”
Former model Nicole Weider is blasting Cosmo, accusing editors of deliberately putting Gomez and other young stars on the cover to attract younger readers.
Weider says by doing that, they are exposing underage girls to graphic content. “Fifty sex tips, naughty sex tips, 75 sex moves, bad girl sex. That’s what they highlight. And that’s what the basis and core of the magazine is all about,” she says.
Cosmo’s February cover pictured Dakota Fanning, who hadn’t turned 18 yet, next to this headline: “Too Naughty to Say Here, but You Have to Try this Sex Trick.”
“They’re sexualizing young girls and they’re daring them to try all these freaky sex acts,” says Weider.
Weider’s launched an online petition at anticosmomission.com, demanding that the magazine shield covers in dark plastic, similar to what’s done with adult magazines like Hustler.
Weider adds, “If you put a protective coating on it that means that young little five year old Jada can’t flip through the magazine. It really would help if this was sold only to adults.”
However, one expert on women’s issues thinks Weider’s anti-Cosmo campaign goes way too far.
“I don’t think learning about sex is going to immediately lead to irresponsible activity among young girls. Cosmo is hardly the most shocking or fearful place to learn about sex.”
Piper Weiss, senior features editor at Yahoo! Shine, the women’s lifestyle portal, tells Showbiz Tonight younger audiences can find useful information in Cosmopolitan.
“It’s more about a place where girls go to find out about things they’re embarrassed to ask in sex ed class. It’s the place you go when you don’t want to talk to your parents about something,” says Weiss.
However, Weider says Cosmo goes well beyond mere sex education.
“In this magazine it gives hard core explicit sex tips on how to give a proper (beeped) job or do this sex position “reverse cowgirl. It’s pushing sex in a very graphic manner,” says Weider.
As for Cosmo, the magazine is defending its content and its decision to put young stars on the cover.
It tells Showbiz Tonight in a statement, “The mature successful young women Cosmopolitan features on its cover embody the fun and fearless spirit of the magazine and reflect the empowering information inside about relationships, career, health, and beauty.
Weider says she’s not buying it and hopes to convince federal regulators to take action against the magazine.
lol idk I'm bored.
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Selena's Cosmo cover causing an outrage?!
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(CNN) – Cosmpolitan Magazine is catching some heat for its latest cover. Critics say the Cosmo is trying to exploit young readers with material that’s too mature for them.
Selena Gomez’s fans love her. The Disney Channel “Wizards of Waverly Place” turned Gomez into a teen sensation, and a regular on kid fan magazines.
HLN’s Showbiz Tonight can tell you Selena’s latest magazine cover is parking big outrage.
This is her on Cosmopolitan Magazine, but the controversy is not about the photo. It’s about the copy surrounding Selena.
Check this out: “50 Sex Tips: Readers Share the Naughtiest Moves They Discovered All on Their Own.”
Former model Nicole Weider is blasting Cosmo, accusing editors of deliberately putting Gomez and other young stars on the cover to attract younger readers.
Weider says by doing that, they are exposing underage girls to graphic content. “Fifty sex tips, naughty sex tips, 75 sex moves, bad girl sex. That’s what they highlight. And that’s what the basis and core of the magazine is all about,” she says.
Cosmo’s February cover pictured Dakota Fanning, who hadn’t turned 18 yet, next to this headline: “Too Naughty to Say Here, but You Have to Try this Sex Trick.”
“They’re sexualizing young girls and they’re daring them to try all these freaky sex acts,” says Weider.
Weider’s launched an online petition at anticosmomission.com, demanding that the magazine shield covers in dark plastic, similar to what’s done with adult magazines like Hustler.
Weider adds, “If you put a protective coating on it that means that young little five year old Jada can’t flip through the magazine. It really would help if this was sold only to adults.”
However, one expert on women’s issues thinks Weider’s anti-Cosmo campaign goes way too far.
“I don’t think learning about sex is going to immediately lead to irresponsible activity among young girls. Cosmo is hardly the most shocking or fearful place to learn about sex.”
Piper Weiss, senior features editor at Yahoo! Shine, the women’s lifestyle portal, tells Showbiz Tonight younger audiences can find useful information in Cosmopolitan.
“It’s more about a place where girls go to find out about things they’re embarrassed to ask in sex ed class. It’s the place you go when you don’t want to talk to your parents about something,” says Weiss.
However, Weider says Cosmo goes well beyond mere sex education.
“In this magazine it gives hard core explicit sex tips on how to give a proper (beeped) job or do this sex position “reverse cowgirl. It’s pushing sex in a very graphic manner,” says Weider.
As for Cosmo, the magazine is defending its content and its decision to put young stars on the cover.
It tells Showbiz Tonight in a statement, “The mature successful young women Cosmopolitan features on its cover embody the fun and fearless spirit of the magazine and reflect the empowering information inside about relationships, career, health, and beauty.
Weider says she’s not buying it and hopes to convince federal regulators to take action against the magazine.
lol idk I'm bored.
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I have many, many, many issues with these teen magazines aimed towards teenagers constantly advertising sex and such though which they seem to do on every issue. I'm not against sex, but they present it in such a negative, male-dominated way. :|
selena grew up, she's 19 almost 20. out of disney. period and her outfits aren't even that big of a deal.
yes i understand she has younger fans, but she ain't gonna hold herself back because of them forever and if they parents aren't ok with it. too bad
Is not Selena directly. The thing is, the magazine is trying to reach younger audiences, since Selena has fans that are pre-teens and below 18 (most of her fans are), by putting Selena as their cover, they're blatantly stating that they want those people to buy their magazine.
Which is causing controversy since the magazine contains "sex tips" and all these things, and people are unhappy that Cosmo wants kids to read about it.
there's just so much wrong with blaming the sexuality of women on people's problems. I don't even LIKE Cosmo but seriously?
Anyways, they didn't have it.
Soo... is it as amazing as it sounds?!!!
And also the fact that theres potato chip clusters in it really intrigues me.
only people i ever knew that read it were young girls who wanted to appear sexually experienced or older than they were. all in my experience of course...
Cosmopolitan is a fashion, beauty, health, love and sex magazine. I'm not fan of Cosmopolitan, but Cosmo just use stars of the moment.
And yeah, I know, my english is very bad.