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COSMOPOLITAN

Joburg has lost its seat among the world’s iconic capitals

As heartbreaking as it is to admit, our beloved city is travelling down a path of no return

  • Charmain Naidoo
7 min read
Kate Spade in her showroom in 1999.
ARIELLE SCHWARTZ

Kate Spade dead at 55

Police believe the designer took her own life

  • Arielle Schwartz
4 min read
Milisuthando Bongela looks at how we can restore the idea of pleasure around sex.
COSMOPOLITAN

If only we were taught that sex should be fun

How can we look at teaching boys and girls that sex is also a natural and delightful part of being a human being, asks Milisuthando Bongela.

  • Milisuthando Bongela
4 min read
This 1990 file photo shows Cosmopolitan magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown in her New York office.
COSMOPOLITAN

Iconic Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown dies

Before there was Sex and the City, there was Sex and the Single Girl. And before there was Carrie Bradshaw, there was Helen Gurley Brown.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Marking time with beefcake in the buff
CHRIS ROPER

Marking time with beefcake in the buff

<b>Chris Roper</b> takes a closer look at one of the more retarded manifestations of popular culture — Cosmo’s Sexiest SA Men Calendar for 2012.

  • Chris Roper
4 min read
COSMOPOLITAN

The Lolly shtick is too easy

The editor of <em>Cosmopolitan</em> thinks Lolly Jackson was a dick for exploiting women. Verashni Pillay thinks it’s all shades of grey.

  • Verashni Pillay
5 min read