Authors Susanna Paasonen, Kaarina Nikunen, Laura Saarenmaa, of the book "Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture" have a very different outtake of the impact that Cosmopolitan Magazine has on women. In this book, it goes on to say that in the 1960's Cosmopolitan Mag stressed the role of female sexual knowledge in keeping a man--the goal was for a single girl to marry. The success of Cosmopolitan lies in its ability to address a global audience. Cosmo also follows the general trend of womens magazines to offer difference without diversity. Hence the reason why I like to stress--from time to time--that Cosmo is no different from any other women's magazine. Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine's perception is very different from that of the way it was in the 1960's. Today, it's "200,1 way to please your man" rather that "How to be the best homemaker". Times have changed, for women, since the 1960's, and so have Cosmopolitan's objective in the live of women.
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