In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl."
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Helen Gurley Brown, longtime Cosmopolitan editor, dies at 90
Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 book, 'Sex and the Single Girl,' broke ground by discussing the sex life of single women and casting them as 'the newest glamour girl of our times.' The book led to her longtime role at Cosmopolitan magazine.
In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl."
In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl."
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