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The sexual politics of Cosmo Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker wants young women to vote. But is that really what they buy her magazine for?
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HOLD the orgasms - Cosmo has discovered politics. After a 32-year
crusade to locate G-spots and expose male flesh, the magazine's new
obsession is the contenders for the keys to Number 10.
Next month, among spreads on breast-enhancement and threesomes,
Cosmopolitan's readers are being offered interviews with those
unlikeliest of pinups, the three main party leaders.
It is certainly an eccentric way to fight one of the most brutal
circulation wars in recent women's-magazine history. But Sam Baker,
Cosmo's editor since July, is on a mission that she says is about
empowering a generation of ...