As noted in the New York Times online (Mon. 13 Aug. 2012), Ms. Helen Gurley Brown died today at 90.
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/b...e-cosmopolitan-its-purr-is-dead-at-90.html?hp
(which is headlined and includes (.... => omitted text):
HELEN GURLEY BROWN | 1922 - 2012
GAVE 'SINGLE GIRL' A LIFE IN FULL (SEX, SEX, SEX)
By MARGALIT FOX, Published 13 Aug. 2012, New York Times
“Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more — died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 90 .... “
…. etc ….
“As Cosmopolitan’s editor from 1965 until 1997, Ms. Brown was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women. The look of women’s magazines today — a sea of voluptuous models and titillating cover lines — is due in no small part to her influence.”
“Before she arrived at Cosmopolitan, Ms. Brown had already shaken the collective consciousness with her best-selling book ‘Sex and the Single Girl.’ Published in 1962, the year before Betty Friedan ignited the modern women’s movement with “The Feminine Mystique,” it taught unmarried women how to look their best, have delicious affairs and ultimately bag a man for keeps, all in breathless, aphoristic prose. ….”
…. etc ….
“Few magazines have been identified so closely with a single editor as Cosmopolitan was with Ms. Brown. Before she took over, Cosmopolitan, like its competitors, was every inch a postwar product. Its target reader was a married suburbanite [woman], preoccupied with maintaining the perfect figure, raising the perfect child and making the perfect Jell-O salad.”
[End of quotes.]
It’s tempting to suspect Ms. Brown may be among the key grandmothers (so to speak) of the modern cuckolding movement among married women… above and beyond traditional usually-secretive cuckolding of husbands.
I mean, what’s the difference between a single woman and a married woman — one day and a few words, right…?
After reading “Sex and the Single Girl” it must have been difficult — if not impossible — for many single women who later became married women, and already-married women as well, to not conclude that if single women enjoy sex to the max, doesn’t it follow that married women should too…?
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/b...e-cosmopolitan-its-purr-is-dead-at-90.html?hp
(which is headlined and includes (.... => omitted text):
HELEN GURLEY BROWN | 1922 - 2012
GAVE 'SINGLE GIRL' A LIFE IN FULL (SEX, SEX, SEX)
By MARGALIT FOX, Published 13 Aug. 2012, New York Times
“Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more — died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 90 .... “
…. etc ….
“As Cosmopolitan’s editor from 1965 until 1997, Ms. Brown was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women. The look of women’s magazines today — a sea of voluptuous models and titillating cover lines — is due in no small part to her influence.”
“Before she arrived at Cosmopolitan, Ms. Brown had already shaken the collective consciousness with her best-selling book ‘Sex and the Single Girl.’ Published in 1962, the year before Betty Friedan ignited the modern women’s movement with “The Feminine Mystique,” it taught unmarried women how to look their best, have delicious affairs and ultimately bag a man for keeps, all in breathless, aphoristic prose. ….”
…. etc ….
“Few magazines have been identified so closely with a single editor as Cosmopolitan was with Ms. Brown. Before she took over, Cosmopolitan, like its competitors, was every inch a postwar product. Its target reader was a married suburbanite [woman], preoccupied with maintaining the perfect figure, raising the perfect child and making the perfect Jell-O salad.”
[End of quotes.]
It’s tempting to suspect Ms. Brown may be among the key grandmothers (so to speak) of the modern cuckolding movement among married women… above and beyond traditional usually-secretive cuckolding of husbands.
I mean, what’s the difference between a single woman and a married woman — one day and a few words, right…?
After reading “Sex and the Single Girl” it must have been difficult — if not impossible — for many single women who later became married women, and already-married women as well, to not conclude that if single women enjoy sex to the max, doesn’t it follow that married women should too…?
