Cosmopolitan Magazine

COSMOPOLITAN

Cosmopolitan began as a family magazine, launched in 1886 by Schlicht & Field as The Cosmopolitan.

In the early 1970s, Cosmopolitan became a women's magazine complete with a sexy cover shot every month of a woman (usually) in a low cut dress or bikini. Brown wished to show the "single woman" that she was not alone in engaging in pre-marital sex; there were other women throughout the country who were doing the same thing.

In Brown's early years as editor, the magazine received a lot of criticism. Many people were shocked at the new message of the one-time literary magazine. Brown, however, took no notice and continued to print the magazine that she had envisioned.

The magazine ran a near-nude centerfold of then little-known actor Burt Reynolds in April 1972. It was a scandalous move for the time. The issue created great controversy, propelling both Cosmopolitan and Reynolds to the forefront of American popular culture.

In April 1978, a single edition of Cosmopolitan Man was published as a trial, targeted to appeal to men. Its cover featured Jack Nicholson and Aurore Clément. It was published twice in 1989 as a supplement to Cosmopolitan

The UK edition of Cosmopolitan, which began in the early 1970s, was well known for sexual explicitness, with strong sexual language, male nudity and coverage of such subjects as rape. More recently, CosmoGIRL!, a spinoff magazine targeting a teenage female audience, has been created for an international readership.

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