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Walmart Can Ban Cosmopolitan From Its Checkouts, but Cosmo Still Wins

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Anti-porn activists scored a victory when Walmart banned the magazine from its checkout aisles. But it’s a hollow victory: Cosmo’s cultural power is way bigger.

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Walmart’s decision on Tuesday to remove Cosmopolitan from its checkout aisles in response to a petition from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation isn’t just a “perversion

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