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Dec. 11th, 2007 07:26 amThe first love meme hit the LJ comment limit, so we've moved to a new post. Go love me and get yourself some love. ;)
I stayed home from work today due to the fever I came down with last night that started low, got higher, and then hung around for half the night. I don't seem to have one right now, but I feel kind of crappy due to spending half the night feverish, and I want to give myself a day to fight off whatever the fever was trying to fight off, so I can be healthy tomorrow and not infect anyone. Maybe I will sit here until I finish my Christmas shopping and plan lessons for the rest of December, and then I will watch whatever my current Netflix disc is. Exciting!
Meanwhile, I've been reading the Cosmo-related posts on Jezebel here (hey, I was looking for a thing and found myself reading a bunch of tagged entries - I'm sick, you know how it goes ;)) and that got me thinking about the days when I sometimes read a Cosmo while volunteering at the hospital. And they really are that stupid. See Kate White in USA Today:
"Cover lines on Cosmo are paramount, because they help sell, in a good month, 2 million copies on newsstands alone. On the upcoming August cover, which she's still massaging, White points to one—'Erotic sex!'—that she says is a grabber. 'We've used the word 'sex' in a lot of combinations, but we've never said 'erotic sex' before. I like the idea of the reader going, 'Oooh, erotic sex,' 'White says, a gleam in her eye."
OOOH EROTIC SEX. This month, Cosmo is promoting "sexy sex", with helpful, innovative tips such as "Have sex doggy-style" (and they explain how that is done!!), and "have sex in the shower". Also, did you know saliva can be a fun lubricant if applied through the magic of oral sex? Or that men often masturbate frequently (HOW ABOUT THE LADIES COSMO)? Is Cosmo actually for people who've never had sex and have also been living under a rock their entire lives? It's a little weird, actually. I'd love for someone to do a study about this. Like, every single issue is full of these brilliant sex tips - I wonder how many they are actually using and how many times they have been repeated over time.
Okay, more tea now.
I stayed home from work today due to the fever I came down with last night that started low, got higher, and then hung around for half the night. I don't seem to have one right now, but I feel kind of crappy due to spending half the night feverish, and I want to give myself a day to fight off whatever the fever was trying to fight off, so I can be healthy tomorrow and not infect anyone. Maybe I will sit here until I finish my Christmas shopping and plan lessons for the rest of December, and then I will watch whatever my current Netflix disc is. Exciting!
Meanwhile, I've been reading the Cosmo-related posts on Jezebel here (hey, I was looking for a thing and found myself reading a bunch of tagged entries - I'm sick, you know how it goes ;)) and that got me thinking about the days when I sometimes read a Cosmo while volunteering at the hospital. And they really are that stupid. See Kate White in USA Today:
"Cover lines on Cosmo are paramount, because they help sell, in a good month, 2 million copies on newsstands alone. On the upcoming August cover, which she's still massaging, White points to one—'Erotic sex!'—that she says is a grabber. 'We've used the word 'sex' in a lot of combinations, but we've never said 'erotic sex' before. I like the idea of the reader going, 'Oooh, erotic sex,' 'White says, a gleam in her eye."
OOOH EROTIC SEX. This month, Cosmo is promoting "sexy sex", with helpful, innovative tips such as "Have sex doggy-style" (and they explain how that is done!!), and "have sex in the shower". Also, did you know saliva can be a fun lubricant if applied through the magic of oral sex? Or that men often masturbate frequently (HOW ABOUT THE LADIES COSMO)? Is Cosmo actually for people who've never had sex and have also been living under a rock their entire lives? It's a little weird, actually. I'd love for someone to do a study about this. Like, every single issue is full of these brilliant sex tips - I wonder how many they are actually using and how many times they have been repeated over time.
Okay, more tea now.
