Random Fact: Cosmo Started As a Magazine Not All About Sex
When Cosmopolitan launched in 1886, the glossy’s editor called it a “first-class family magazine.” Indeed, early issues of the mag featured articles by the likes of Jack London and Theodore Roosevelt, and covered topics like climbing Mount Vesuvius and the life of Mozart. In recent decades, Cosmo moved away from family fun towards a level of sexual explicitness that makes third wave feminists cringe and hapless women fixated on pleasing men.


























