Have you ever noticed the covers of popular women's magazines like Cosmopolitan and Allure? The covers all have these huge blurbs like: "50 Ways to Make Your Man Go Wild in Bed" or "30 Tips on How to Set Your Bed Sheets on Fire" or "12 Great Vegetables to Get Cozy With (Wink, Wink)". Based on these covers, the Captain is under the belief that ladies are just as perverted as guys if not more so. The Captain is not complaining mind you, it is just an observation I thought and would share and hopefully get feedback on.

Admit your true hornhound nature, Orgettes!

first! it's just the media's attempt to pigeonhole the female gender into its 'proper' man-pleasing role

XxAxX said:

Yes but women do buy these magazines. Why do they allow this manipulation to continue?

Maybe cause their pervs. It's just a theory...

CaptainChaos said:

because combined with all the other mind-bending discriminatory practices that we suffer in all areas of our lives what little acceptance we can gleen from society arises from those instances in which we conform to that impossible standard. even if it's only a game, it's all we have*.

bulimia, anorexia, obesity.. these are the reailty. those magazine covers are not

*edited to add: we are made to feel that it is all we have.
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see, it's like this. in order to sell more product the media must convince women we need the product. so they ask us "are your teeth white enough?" "is your butt toned enough" and for most women there is some area, at least one, in which they do not conform to the (impossible) standard.

and so we are first broken into pieces after which we buy our self-respect back, bit by bit in the form of diet pills, dental bleach, hair remover, wrinkle blaster, collagen injections.,... you name it.

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It's complete bollocks that the vast majority of women couldn't be able to view these phenomenons in critical light and see their way through it. When people are criticizing mass culture and consumerism they always speak of it from such a viewpoint that everybody except from them is a victim of it and needs to be rescued. In reality, the media has been critical of its own exploitative phenomenons for well over several decades, and everybody with a decent set of brains should already be aware of it.

My own personal take has always been that if there exist individuals so stupid they do not see anything suspicious about Cosmopolitan they truly deserve that magazine. Everybody can aspire for higher standards, there are tons of other alternatives to spend your time with than reading this kind of material. Yet, this is what they choose to subscribe to.
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Damn this thread is all serious. Does this mean no one is going to confess to be a complete perv then?

CaptainChaos said:

Satisfied?

XxAxX said:

and it works

Novabreaker said:

everything in life ...is about choice

and we ALL have the freedom to make our own choices

CaptainChaos said:

i'm one though i dont buy said magizine

I think it's a bit of both. I think the media or the powers that be can accept some blame and I think personal responsibility plays a big part in it all also. If we stop buying crap, businesses will stop producing crap. But I don't think it's that simple, either.

Ottensen said:

That's what I'm talking about!

Nothing wrong with admitting pervistic tendencies.

CaptainChaos said:

Mach said:

Welcome Sister Mach to the Perv Pool!!!

Jump in, the water's great!

CaptainChaos said:

dude .. i OWN the pool

You know, I've never actually read a Cosmo, but I must say it's the absolute last place I'd ever go to for 'sex tips'.

Mach said:

Alright!

Now this thread is going where I want it to.

Ladies go for yours!

CarrieMpls said:

I have to admit I read it all the time. I want to know how I'm going to be pleased later. It's kind of like fast forwarding to the end of the movie.

CarrieMpls said:

word

i think that true pervs don't need a magazine to tell them what to do...

am i right?

CarrieMpls said:

Actually, that's not true. A friend of mine had one once when he was doing my hair. I remember being absoutely stunned at the amount of ads in it. I was complaining about them and he was all, 'but you BUY Cosmo for the ads, you don't READ it, duh!'. I fipped through and realized a LOT of the fashion and fun photography in the magazine came from the ads. I never looked at it the same again.

CaptainChaos said:

Allure doesn't have articles like that. It's the only mag I buy.

But yes, women are perverts.

Britney Murphy must eat...

it is impossible that these magazines can always have new sex tips every month! They are recycling.

sosgemini said:

I agree! She was so cute when she in Clueless.

CarrieMpls said:

you're right it really isn't. far more complex social fabric than mere marketing goes into this particular weave

JustErin said:

I beg to differ. "Racy full-body massage" indeed!

Perverts!

Heiress said:

I have used Penthouse Forum for suggestions.

CaptainChaos said:

I have every single issue of Allure. In general this mag does not have articles like that.

Perverts? Yes.