A question for guys: Would you ever get Cosmo for your girlfriend?
- Thread starter Eukaryote
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Well if you could do it like that.
1-48: Make pizza
49: Scratch my back
50: Get naked
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
bathsheba666
Fast 'n Bulbous
No deviation? you disappoint me.
Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah if she wanted me to buy Cosmo for her...... 
Yeah if she wanted me to buy Cosmo for her......
and gave me the money for it.
Narz
keeping it real
Me neither, nothing goes in my woman 'cept me.
Be happy to buy pads for my lady though, why the hell wouldn't I?
strange order you got there. I can make pizza myself
well, I can get naked myself too, but it's not as visually pleasing as when she does it
anyway, if my gf is worried about how she can better please me, she just has to ask me, and certainly not read some cheap mag that tells her what I like
If she asked me to, I'd buy it for her, though, but there's not much danger of that, she's much sooner ask me to get some architecture mag
Pannonius
Reconquistador
It's chick porn wrapped in tonns of adds. Girls that buy it are probably dumb, making it easier to score with them. That's what I like, thus, I love Cosmo reading girls.
Plus, they think they're smart for reading it, which makes my job so much easier.
Plus, they think they're smart for reading it, which makes my job so much easier.
I'm a simple man to please, and my girlfriend knows how already. She enjoys it too. She also enjoys looking at pretty women (and making nasty comments) and laughing at badly written and/or silly articles. We can tear apart most writing with cynicism and (cheap) humour.
Neonanocyborgasm
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That's not the purpose of Cosmo.
Cosmo's aim is to enable young women to take advantage of their sexuality to gain as much as they can for the least amount of effort. The articles provide hints on how to exploit men to provide a woman with wealth and gifts, using sex as leverage. This is why the articles tend to be so vapid and repetitive. You will notice that every cover of every issue (which you will notice if you pass the check out aisle in a supermarket, or at a newstand) is the same. If Cosmo's articles were truly useful, they would not repeat themselves every month. There's no controversy as to how to please a man, and women know exactly how to do it, and they know that it's not hard. Just being nice to a man, providing him with sex and affection, and if you're married, cooking and cleaning occasionally, more than suffices.
The reason I've gained so much insight into Cosmo is because I used to be room-mates with 5 girls in medical school. They left their women's magazines lying around so I would read them out of boredom. That should've been my first hint as to what was about to happen.
Don't buy your girlfriend Cosmo, if you want to do yourself a favor. I would go so far as to say that any girl who reads Cosmo often is shallow and exploitative, and I would not be in a relationship with one. (That's not to say I wouldn't sleep with her.)
Sure, if I knew she liked reading it. We all like stupid stuff. I enjoy Rolling Stone, PS2 college football..things that I know are mindless, but I enjoy 'em anyways. My last girlfriend was flat out one of the most brilliant people I've ever met, but I know she liked to read things like Cosmo.
So if I was out at the grocery store, and i had a few extra bucks, I might get her one, just like she might grab jellybeans, because she knew I liked those.
So if I was out at the grocery store, and i had a few extra bucks, I might get her one, just like she might grab jellybeans, because she knew I liked those.
Eukaryote
Deity
Cosmo's biggest purpose is to convince women they're not good enough without Cosmo.
I've read Cosmo and I'ver never noticed anything like that. With all due respect, do you have anything to back this claim up?
I already fly my gf in from the northwest. Why would I buy her Cosmo?
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Some kind of source? No. With all due respect (I'm not being sarcastic), you're not exactly susceptible to the material. Any kind of authority needs people to think they need it. Some women buy into the "50 ways to please your man" and don't think they can figure it out for themselves. Hell, when I was 13, 14, I thought I'd be a social outcast without Seventeen's eyeshadow tips. It's not hard to find anecdotes.
Or do you really think the board of directors is concerned with "helping women please men"? It's about money, and their gig is being authoritative.
Shylock
Hey smiling strange
If I do have a girlfriend, she has own money, she can buy her own rags.
Eukaryote
Deity
Okay, what I hear from this is that you think when it comes to the bedroom, women shouldn't need or desire to learn, they should know already, or ask their partners. And it's wrong to try to get help in this department.
I disagree, people lack knowladge and fall behind when they are afraid to ask for help or make the effort to learn. We all learn everything from somewhere after all. You may be thinking, "but we should just ask each other what we like," well, that's true for many things but when it comes to sex, it would kind of ruin the surprise, and make it feel fake.
Also, I don't think Cosmo's purpose is to be an authority figure, it's purpose is to teach and entertain. You may have thought you'd be lost without Seventeen's teachings when you were young, but to be honest, that problem sounds more like a lack of personal confidence than a crappy magizine.
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
If she does a good enough favor for me, I suppose I might be arsed.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Depends if I felt like insulting her, doesn't it? 
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