The sexual politics of Cosmo Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker wants young women to vote. But is that really what they buy her magazine for?

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: March 9, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...