When I was a teenager, my best friends and I reached that age where we needed real information on men. So where could we get said information? That's right: Cosmopolitan magazine!
For those of you who may not know: Cosmo was/is a women's magazine for the 18-34 age bracket. Their description says, "People who are cosmopolitan have an air of glamour surrounding them, a sense that they've seen a lot of the world and are sophisticated and at ease with all different kinds of people". So what in the world were a group of 15-17 year-olds doing with this magazine? We were hoping to pick up some tips on getting boys and dating!
As the youngest of our group of friends, I had no business having anything to do with this magazine. I didn't date, had failed sex ed as a freshman and was just naïve in general. But I wanted to be like my friends so I oohed and ahhed over the articles like I had a clue what they were talking about. However, since they were way more experienced than I was, my friends had more than an inkling!
So as a 15-year-old, the only things that really caught my eye were some of the fashions (not that I was mature enough to wear what those ladies were barely wearing!) and I liked the makeup tips (not that I wore makeup!). But the best thing was at the end of the magazine they always had a short story that I would always read voraciously since I fancied myself quite the writer even at that tender young age. As a matter of fact, I thought about contacting Cosmo to see if they would consider serializing one of my books and running a chapter or two a month so I could be rich and famous! Granted, I couldn't quite write anything remotely resembling the sex scenes that were in the magazine (still can't!) but I was willing to give it a whirl. Yep, we see how that turned out, ha ha. But hope springs eternal!
After all of this time, I'm going to tell you what my main takeaway was from years of poring over Cosmo until I finally stopped reading it maybe 15 years ago. One of the articles was about what would make you unforgettable to a man. It included the 3 scents men can't resist: musk (as a teen I bought some Jovan Spring Musk cologne), vanilla (not my favorite scent so that wasn't going to work) and cinnamon. Bingo! To this day I still only chew cinnamon gum and use cinnamon Altoids. Yet surprisingly I'm still not married. Thanks a lot Cosmo! No wonder I stopped reading you 😕 But at least my breath is always amazingly fresh 😉
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