Thursday, August 16, 2012

Helen Gurley Brown and the Economics of Erotic Capital

The influence of Helen Gurley Brown, the former Cosmopolitan editor who died Monday at 90, extended widely across the culture, and was deeply felt in the world of magazines.When women complain about men who can't commit, they can thank -- or blame -- two people: Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, who died thisThe influence of Helen Gurley Brown, the former Cosmopolitan editor who died Monday at 90, extended widely across the culture, and was deeply felt in the world of magazines.Retirement passed me by," the late great Helen Gurley Brown told Cathie Black back when the two worked together at Hearst. Black headed Hearst Magazines for 14 years until 2010, while Brown, into her 80s, was theMs. Brown, who wrote the best-selling book “Sex and the Single Girl” and was the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan, was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women.
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