Editing Cosmopolitan (magazine) (section)

=== Campaigns against ''Cosmopolitan'' ===
Victoria Hearst, a granddaughter of [[William Randolph Hearst]] (founder of ''Cosmopolitan''{{'s}} parent company) and sister of [[Patty Hearst]], has lent her support to a campaign which seeks to classify ''Cosmopolitan'' as harmful under the guidelines of "Material Harmful to Minors" laws. Hearst, the founder of an evangelical Colorado church called Praise Him Ministries,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://praisehimministries.org/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101101557/http://praisehimministries.org/index.htm|title=Praise Him Ministries|publisher=Praise Him Ministries|archive-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref> states that "the magazine promotes a lifestyle that can be dangerous to women's emotional and physical well being. It should never be sold to anyone under 18".<ref name="FN">{{cite web|last=McKay|first=Hollie|date=September 6, 2012|title=Victoria Hearst says her family's ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine "pornographic", joins campaign to get it brown bagged|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/victoria-hearst-says-her-familys-cosmopolitan-magazine-pornographic-joins-campaign-to-get-it-brown-bagged/|work=[[Fox News]]}}</ref> According to former model [[Nicole Weider]], who is also part of this campaign, the magazine's marketing is subtly targeting children.<ref name="FN" /> Billboards have been hung in states such as Utah urging the state to ban sales of the magazine.

In 2018, Walmart announced that ''Cosmopolitan'' would be removed from checkout lines after the anti-pornography organization [[National Center on Sexual Exploitation]], formerly known as Morality in Media, labeled the magazine as "sexually explicit material".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/walmart-to-remove-cosmopolitan-magazine-from-checkout-lines|title=Walmart to remove Cosmopolitan magazine from checkout lines|last=Lam|first=Katherine|date=March 27, 2018|work=Fox News|access-date=April 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=Fox News is [[WP:RS/P|generally regarded as unreliable]] for political reporting|date=October 2023}}