Sex at the Checkout Stand

My gradeschool aged daughters and I went for a quick trip to the local Safeway grocery store. While waiting in the checkout line I gazed at magazine covers. On one cover in eye-catching print "Hot New Sex Tricks" and then in smaller print just underneath something about just needing a couple of props and then something about being ready to act very naughty. The imagery it conveyed in a grocery store... The word very was underlined. Okay... Let's not explain this to my kids.

Cosmopolitan Magazine is the correct answer for those that guessed.

I decided to check out their website. Woah... Sex tricks, sex games, sex positions. Lots of descriptive sex... Oh looky, an online kama sutra game that moans (I'm not making that up)... "Carnal Counselor"? "Guy Candy"? A porn site for women? I sure hope Net Nanny blocks this one!

Now I'm not against better sex, healthy sex or adventurous sex. Nor am I against having appropriate sex education. Heck, I'm all for all these things! I understand some adults enjoy this sort of adult entertainment. A lot of them, if you believe the subscription numbers. But the place for it is not the grocery store checkout rack. Cosmo isn't the only one "pushing the limits".

But they certainly will help broach the subject of smut with the kids...