Fashion Magazines

June 1, 2004

Maybe it’s just me but I’m a little shocked by what I see on the magazine racks at the grocery store. I’m no prude (although maybe I’m delusional about that) but it’s pretty bad.

I haven’t paged through a fashion magazine in a while but I had the opportunity to spend a few hours at our local mega-bookstore on Mother’s Day so I picked one up. I’m not really sure what made me grab it in the first place but it must have had something on the cover that made me think I could be helped in the fashion department. (I’m on a constant quest to find a good compromise between the I-regularly-spend-$1500-for-a-pair-of-shoes type and the frumpy-overwashed-overworn-oversized-sweatshirt-mom type.)

Bottom line: I was shocked at how much space in the magazine was devoted to sex. Let me stop for a moment and be clear that I don’t have a problem with sex. In fact, I’m all for sex–that is, sex in marriage. Must I specify that the sex being promoted and talked about in the magazine was not that?

Despite my lack of time to peruse magazines of the fashion type, I’m no stranger to them. As a young, single, carefree, childless college student, I read them quite a bit. And my head is not buried in the sand when it comes to current popular trends either. But, c’mon! Do I really need to know the “Most Embarrassing Thing That Has Ever Happened to You During Sex?”

Women! Why do we fill our minds with such trash? Why do we accept this as normal? Is nothing sacred anymore? I defy anyone to tell me one edifying thing about reading the gory details of a one-night stand between two people that hardly know each others’ names but are eager & proud to attach their name & face to a quote describing “a funny thing that happened” during an act as intimate as sex! Quite frankly, I just want to puke.

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