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So there I was in a checkout line at Walmart (which I know many of you have an objection to that reaches an almost religious fervor, but let’s leave the discussion of that for some other time, OK?) when I noticed something intriguing about the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. You know all about the brouhaha over the magazines, right, how many stores hide most of the covers, leaving only the logo visible, so cleavage doesn’t offend the unwary?
One example—my local supermarket, which only let me see Zooey Deschanel from the lips up this afternoon.
Walmart, on the other hand, was OK with letting me glimpse Deschanel’s cleavage, as you can see from the U-shaped shield below—
—which saved me from exposure to such racy headlines as “What Your Breasts Need Most at Night” and “78 Crazy-Hot Sex Facts: They’ll Knock Your Panties Off.”
Whew!
Who knew that Walmart, with its policy of not stocking CDs with Parental Advisory labels, insisting instead that music be censored, would be less censorious than some when it comes to those controversial Cosmo covers?
Oh, I’ve been seeing that full shield from the first photo for years. It’s only the U-shaped plastic, which allows the image to be seen while hiding the words, that is new to me.
James
I’ve seen stuff like that. Your old Neighborhood here, on Ocean Ave and Ave P, is now very Orthodox Jewish and they have stuff like that all the time. In fact many of the stores have stopped selling Women’s magazines, that aren’t mothering oriented, after the loud objections of the Religious.