Helen Gurley Brown and the Economics of Erotic Capital

Sexual intercourse, said Philip Larkin, began in 1963. For unmarried women in America, it began the year before, when a 40-year-old woman named Helen Gurley Brown published a book called Sex and the Single Girl. "Dear Helen," her mother wrote in aHelen Gurley Brown, writer of Sex and The Single Girl and for 32 years the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, was in the vanguard of a movement that insisted women would only achieve equality through “reproductive rights.” What that meant was that womenSexual intercourse, said Philip Larkin, began in 1963. For unmarried women in America, it began the year before, when a 40-year-old woman named Helen Gurley Brown published a book called Sex and the Single Girl. "Dear Helen," her mother wrote in aIf Helen Gurley Brown's favorite motto is true—“Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere”—she is now holding court in a hot place, surrounded by handsome devils. Brown died, at ninety, on Monday morning, and ISexual intercourse, said Philip Larkin, began in 1963. For unmarried women in America, it began the year before, when a 40-year-old woman named Helen Gurley Brown published a book called Sex and the Single Girl. "Dear Helen," her mother wrote in a
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