Conservative commentator Ed Hynes says in his latest column that even mainstream publications like Cosmopolitan magazine is pornographic and promotes what he calls the “pornography lifestyle.”
In his commentary posted on the right-wing Morality in Media’s ObscenityCrimes.org Web site today, Hynes blasts the publication for featuring articles and ads that show purported indecent material.
He cited the magazine’s August 2006 issue titled “The Sex He Craves,” as typical of its alleged pornographic bent by having men respond to a series of questions about sex and relationships.
Hynes opined that retailers should put the magazine and others like them in blinder racks or remove them altogether.
“Your supermarket and drug store can be part of the solution. They can stop displaying at checkout counters Cosmopolitan and other magazines with lewd and salacious material on the front covers… They might, as an alternative, just stop selling Cosmo and other offensive, demeaning and objectifying and infectious magazines.”
Hynes went on to support a letter dated June 27 which was sent by Morality in Media and the American Decency Association to a 558 CEOs of retailers that sell magazines, asking them to stop displaying publications with “blatant sexual cover headlines” at checkout counters.
“That’s pornography made available at the family supermarket,” Hynes wrote.
“You can help change that. Complain to store managers of supermarkets or other retailers where Cosmo and other magazines with smutty covers are displayed at checkout counters. Tell them you’re disgusted and ask them to remove those magazines from the checkout lane.”
The full story is available at http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/news/vfrd0706.cfm.
