Check out this recent Cosmo article.

[Alleged_Alec]

Yeah, I remember reading one recommendation to put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

and eat it off.

Well then.

I feel that I can only express myself adequately in reaction gifs.

EDIT: I mean, come on! Come on!

What the hell, Cosmo?! 5 minutes later, and still, my mind lingers on how awful this idea is. FOR EVERYONE. Not just those involved, but everyone.

I guess... Someone, somewhere might be into that? Maybe?

I think I need a drink.

What? Don't you want a doughnut with extra....

icing?

 

[Abomination]

The sad thing is I know quite a few of these things could work... maybe once or twice.

Of course when a man catches on to the psychological manipulation he will revert faster than one can imagine.

The alternative is that none of these methods will actually stick.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Yeah, I remember reading one recommendation to put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

How on Earth is that erotic?

I, for one, definitely do not look sexy eating doughnuts.

WTF? Isn't that just cribbed from the joke regarding a marriage councillor's doughnut/grape technique?

 

[Colour Scientist]

Yeah, I remember reading one recommendation to put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

and eat it off.

Well then.

I feel that I can only express myself adequately in reaction gifs.

EDIT: I mean, come on! Come on!

What the hell, Cosmo?! 5 minutes later, and still, my mind lingers on how awful this idea is. FOR EVERYONE. Not just those involved, but everyone.

I guess... Someone, somewhere might be into that? Maybe?

I think I need a drink.

I feel bad now.

I've exposed you to something you shouldn't have been exposed to. If it makes you feel better, I don't think many people actually do that.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

And its publications like Cosmo that will destroy women in the end, not the titties in Dragon's Crown. It's the evil you don't see coming.

 

[Something Amyss]

Are you seriously trying to argue that Cosmo is a feminist magazine?

Cosmo has referred to itself as feminist before. Just like the Nazis calling themselves socialists (and feminists are like Nazis, right? Rush Limbaugh says so),

Watch out, the feminists are coming.

I, for one, welcome our new insect female overlords!

Besides, isn't this clearly the face of feminism? Some poor dude brainwashed into writing an obviously serious article about how men all want to be changed?

Is this what woman who read Cosmo think is "flattering" to them?

It's possible it's simply for amusement, rather than flattery or education.

It's Cosmo, a magazine by idiots for idiots. What did you honestly expect? Some jaw-dropping revelatory statement about the nature of humanity?

You mock, but Voltaire got his start writing for Cosmo.

Yeah, I remember reading one recommendation to put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

How on Earth is that erotic?

I, for one, definitely do not look sexy eating doughnuts.

It involves a penis!

...But seriously, there's this really big thing about food and genitals. I don't know why, but it's been there for a long time. Personally, all I think is the knowledge that food+genitals=yeast infections and other issues (less so for men, but they still exist), and that's enough to make me never want to think about it again.

Everyone should take a lesson from this guy in how to be a proper man

Even the women should learn how to be proper men.

WTF? Isn't that just cribbed from the joke regarding a marriage councillor's doughnut/grape technique?

I think there's a kernel of truth in that joke, and it wasn't cribbed. It just runs parallel to the thing being joked about.

I also hope that kernel isn't popcorn, because that could take a while to find....

 

[Something Amyss]

And its publications like Cosmo that will destroy women in the end, not the titties in Dragon's Crown. It's the evil you don't see coming.

I agree. Men instructing women on how to change men because men like it will destroy women. The only solution is to oust the men!

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

WTF? Isn't that just cribbed from the joke regarding a marriage councillor's doughnut/grape technique?

I think there's a kernel of truth in that joke, and it wasn't cribbed. It just runs parallel to the thing being joked about.

I also hope that kernel isn't popcorn, because that could take a while to find....

As long as it doesn't pop while it's in there...

 

[hazabaza1]

This is a joke, right? This has got to be a joke. I've got no fucking idea what Cosmo is, please tell me this is a joke.

 

[Saltyk]

I'm just going to hope and pray that was a joke. It was probably the worst case of sexism I have seen in recent memory. Honestly, for both men and women. Everyone who reads that loses. I feel I lost a bit just now.

Yeah, I remember reading one recommendation to put a doughnut at the base of your partners penis and eat it off.

How on Earth is that erotic?

I, for one, definitely do not look sexy eating doughnuts.

You know what would be a better use of the doughnut? Giving it to your partner. I'd much rather a girl give me a doughnut than try to eat it off my penis. Feed it to me, if it makes you feel more intimate. But that suggestion just sounds like a waste of a perfectly good doughnut.
[sub]Wonder how many people got bitten due to that bad advice.[/sub]

 

[Weaver]

Not that it's okay, but cosmo has been full of shit like this for years.
I guess I just don't really care about it, to be honest.

 

[Phasmal]

snip

Cosmo in the UK is a bunch of crap. Pretty much always has been.
Also I can't really see why you would view Cosmo as a big bad purveyor of feminism except that ... it says to buy a vibrator? Which is... illegal?? Or... something.

You know what would be a better use of the doughnut? Giving it to your partner. I'd much rather a girl give me a doughnut than try to eat it off my penis. Feed it to me, if it makes you feel more intimate. But that suggestion just sounds like a waste of a perfectly good doughnut.
[sub]Wonder how many people got bitten due to that bad advice.[/sub]

Hey now, I love my boyfriend, but he's not getting my doughnuts. That's going too far.

 

[sky14kemea]

This is the funniest thread I've seen in a while.

EDIT: I mean, come on! Come on!

What the hell, Cosmo?! 5 minutes later, and still, my mind lingers on how awful this idea is. FOR EVERYONE. Not just those involved, but everyone.

I guess... Someone, somewhere might be into that? Maybe?

I think I need a drink.

What? Don't you want a doughnut with extra....

icing?

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

But I guess we're the big bads now.
Watch out, the feminists are coming.

I feel like I should write a theme song to go with this radical new idea of a feminist swarm attacking threads, but I suck with music.

You feminists should be ashamed! How dare you stand up for what you believe in and have every right to have! D:

 

[Phasmal]

pretty much always has been ? were you around 30 years ago to reading it ? as for buying a vibrator (which was an attempt a dead pan humor) have you any idea what would have happened to many of the" working class" married women who bought Cosmos in the 70s if their husbands had come to think he had been sexually "replaced" by a vibrator ?

there was a reason Womens Aid started up in early 70s.

Soooo... if some guy beats his wife because she buys a vibrator, it's the person who advised her to do so's fault?
The mental gymnastics!

And yeah, I wasn't born 30 years ago, but we're not reading the Cosmo's from 30 years ago.

EDIT: You do realise you are saying `Cosmo gave women ideas and that's why they get beaten`, right?
EDIT2: And you're kind of saying that if something was something 30 years ago, logically it still is. Under that logic, I am unborn.

 

[Phasmal]

Snip

Please go ahead assuming you are the only person who grew up in a violent home. It's lovely.
You may have seen this magazine that way 30 years ago, which is indeed a different time.
Doesn't change the fact that pretty much now it's just a magazine which gives out body shaming and poor sex advice.
It's strange how weird a discussion on Cosmo can get, but hey it's the internet.
I think I'll leave this topic now.

 

[Erttheking]

Also, it's fucking Cosmo. The only people I know who actually have read Cosmo just did so when they were still virgins to read the sex stuff. .

*raises hand*
Guilty.

Yeah we've all been there.
Looking back at it, they give terrible and impractical sex advice.
My 16 year old self was like `Oh really?`
23 year old self `Wtf no`.

Oh come on, it can't be that bad. Wait, I found a link or two.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19066_7-psychotic-pieces-relationship-advice-from-cosmo.html

http://www.cracked.com/article/156_7-sex-tips-from-cosmo-that-will-put-you-in-hospital/

............D:

...Ladies, please I'm begging you. Never ever, EVER take the advice of this magazine.