The May 2012 issue of Glamour magazine, featuring cover girl Lauren Conrad, is creating a stir in the United States, because, wait for it, she is posing topless. Gasp. Really? Looks pretty tame to me.
Heck, compared to Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit issue, one might say Glamour’s cover is a Sunday School teacher’s idea of sinful.
And if we really want to be honest about how timid, prudish, and culturally neutered Americans are by the bible-thumping crowd, and fears of de-listing from hyper-sensitive retailers who live in fear of the “moral majority”, the U.S. Glamour cover is lame when compared to the Vogue (Espana) example below. Muy Bien. Perhaps we could learn something about how to sell magazines from the Europeans.
