Cosmo magazine was the guest of honor Monday night when celebrities, the media, and pro-choice people who attend galas gathered to celebrate the pill's 50th birthday. Its magazines covered the walls, and its editor spoke but not before comedienne Samantha Bee took a stab at the old rag. It's the "publisher of all the hard news that other magazines are afraid to touch," she said. "Like, 'The Read more

After 50 years of marriage, Helen Gurley Brown's husband, David Brown, died yesterday. While he was a notable writer, editor, and producer, his toughest, most rewarding job may have been his successful marriage to the woman who brought sex to the masses. Despite the make-yourself populism Helen peddled to women each month in Cosmo, she credited her success to her husband in 2008, saying, "I owe Read more

It's hard to imagine calling a woman who once said "man-pleasing gets results" a feminist, but Helen Gurley Brown has had the word attached to her bra strap since Sex and the Single Girl published in 1962. In April, a biography on her, Bad Girls Go Everywhere, hit the shelves to solidify her place as a feminist icon, raising more than one eyebrow across the blogosphere. So she doesn't have the Read more

Not to be confused with al-Qaeda's new women's magazine dubbed the Jihad Cosmo, this is the real deal. The publisher of British Cosmopolitan is launching a Middle Eastern edition next month in Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Nobody's expecting a warm welcome. Muslim countries view the magazine — an instantly recognizable symbol of sexual freedom Read more