Cutting up Cosmo

While at KCIA airport, I decided to kill some time by checking out the duty free. I was browsing the magazine rack and saw the latest edition of Cosmo. I rarely read the magazine, but was intrigued by 3 cover stories: something on understanding the male mind, a list of 100 things to do in bed, and something about your hidden sexual self. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I need all the help I can get when it comes to figuring out men. I was leafing through the magazine and questioning why I would pay KD3.750 for it, when I noticed 2 of the 3 articles that I wanted had been cut out of the magazine. WTF?! I was irked because they were charging almost $12 for an incomplete product and also perturbed by the idiots making the decisions on what is haram and what is halal in this country. Information itself – not that Cosmo should be considered the definitive source for anything – is not dangerous.

• Why cut out pages on tricks in bed when women wearing hijab sell at charity bazaars creams to pinken the nipples. (I kid you not; it was “pink nipple cream” from China with before and after pictures on the box.)
• Why ink out advertisements when satellite offers all varieties of porn. (Following the death of King Fahd, all I got for a week was prayer or porn.)
• Why edit a nude portrait by one of the great masters yet run right next to it a picture of Tyra Banks and who she underwent a sonogram to prove that her boobs are real?
• And why sell Cosmo at all if you remove the silly sex stories which is why women buy the darn magazine in the first place?