Hi! I'm VICTORIA HEARST. My family's company, the Hearst Corporation, publishes COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, also known as COSMO. It contains PORNOGRAPHY such as:
COSMO seduces underage girls into reading the magazine by putting teen and “tween” idols on the cover, and by printing articles listing the best colleges to go to to have sex.
MY "COSMO HURTS KIDS" CAMPAIGN IS NOT TRYING TO CENSOR THIS MAGAZINE OR PUT IT OUT OF BUSINESS. THE GOAL IS TO HAVE COSMO LABELLED “ADULT MATERIAL" SO THAT IT CANNOT BE SOLD TO ANYONE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.
The AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION says that SEXUALIZATION HAS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES FOR UNDERAGE GIRLS.
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JOANNA COLES has confessed that COSMO is all about SEX and "ENCOURAGING AMERICAN WOMEN TO HAVE MORE AND BETTER ORGASMS."
THIS MAGAZINE IS PORNOGRAPHIC AND VIOLATES STATES' "MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS LAWS." IT SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO KIDS!!
Miss Victoria Hearst was born in San Francisco, and raised in Hillsboro (south of San Francisco). Victoria is the daughter of Catherine Campbell Hearst and Randolph Apperson Hearst. Randolph and his twin brother David (not identical) were the youngest of five boys born to Millicent and William Randolph Hearst. W.R. Hearst, the only child of George and Phoebe Hearst, is best known as the head of a media empire and creator of the famous estate that was referred to as “The Ranch” by W.R. and “Hearst Castle” by the millions of visitors who have enjoyed visiting the site since it was donated to the State of California by the Hearst Corporation and Millicent Hearst in 1953 after W.R.’s death (1951)....Read more
April 1937
Today's Cosmopolitan Magazine has nothing in common, in look or content, with the original magazine that was created in the late 19th century by a company called Schlicht & Field of New York. Named The Cosmopolitan and first published in 1886, it was a wholesome family/women's magazine.
Mr. Paul Schlicht assured his readers that his magazine was a "first-class family magazine" and "There will be a department devoted exclusively to the concerns of women, with articles on fashions, on household decoration, on cooking, and the care and management of children...Read more
Her departure as chief content officer follows the recent promotion of Troy Young to president of the magazine group. The shake-up continues at Hearst Magazines—publisher of such titles as Cosmopolitan, Elle and Esquire—as the division’s high-profile chief content officer, Joanna Coles, has resigned
Kentucky joins nine other states to boldly condemn pornography. Sponsored by Senator David Givens, Senate Resolution 170 passed by voice vote declared pornography to be a public health crisis, encouraging education on the dangers of pornography and requesting increased enforcement.
God bless all of you good people who acted to protect America’s children and made Cosmopolitan Magazine (aka Cosmo) cancel its vile plan to put its pornography on Snapchat.
My family’s company, the Hearst Corporation, publishes Cosmopolitan, and is solely responsible for the magazine’s disgusting, pornographic content.
My name is Victoria Hearst. My family's company, the Hearst Corporation, publishes Cosmopolitan Magazine (also called Cosmo), which contains pornography and is in violation of the Material Harmful to Minors laws.
Fans of Cosmopolitan will now have a harder time finding the magazine at Walmart.
The retail giant will be pulling the magazine from checkout lines at 5,000 stores across the U.S., the National Center on Sexual Exploitation announced in a news release Tuesday.
On Tuesday, a press release from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation announced that the big-box retailer would no longer stock Cosmo in its stores. This shift, which would impact 5,000 Walmart stores nationwide, stems from what the NCOSE called the magazine's promotion of sexual exploitation.
After a recent meeting with Tennessee Attorney General Amy Weirich to discuss how Cosmopolitan Magazine hurts kids, General Weirich decided to issued the following letter to merchants informing them of the Harmful to Minors law.
A meta analysis of 22 separate studies from seven countries claims to have found a tie between pornography consumption and sexual aggression, yielding significant associations between smut and both verbal and physical aggression.
Children and adolescents exposed to media with sexual content engage in sexual activity at younger ages and with greater numbers of partners, thereby placing themselves at great risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and suffering significant harm.
Retailers that carry Cosmopolitan Magazine are unaware that selling its sexual content to minors under 18 years old is Illegal. Download your State's law and give copies to the store owners and/or managers that carry Cosmo. Send copies of the law to your sheriffs, district attorneys, and government officials. Demand that they enforce pornography laws to protect children.
State harmful to minors statutes and obscenity exemptions for educational purposes.Data Gathered by Liberty Counsel 2015, updated 2018
Click below to find the laws that pertain to your state.
PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Steven Swartz
CHAIRMAN
William R. Hearst III
EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN
Frank Bennack, Jr.
PRESIDENT, HEARST MAGAZINES DIVISION
David Carey
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
Michele Promaulayko
michele@cosmopolitan.com
@michprom
Hearst Corporation Headquarters
300 W. 57th St
New York, NY 10019
(212) 649-2000
PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Steven Swartz
CHAIRMAN
William R. Hearst III
EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN
Frank Bennack, Jr.
PRESIDENT, HEARST MAGAZINES DIVISION
David Carey
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
Michele Promaulayko
michele@cosmopolitan.com
@michprom
Hearst Corporation Headquarters
300 W. 57th St
New York, NY 10019
(212) 649-2000