And, finally, speaking of sex: What's sex got to do with...magazine covers

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And, finally, speaking of sex: What's sex got to do with...magazine covers

Just found this blog post on comparing covers for Cosmo and Maxim over at Sociological Images. Here are tag clouds for each, illustrating the frequency of certain words (the more the word appeared on the cover, the bigger it appears in the tag cloud). Image one is from Cosmo covers between 2007-2010. Image two is from Maxim covers between 2007-2010. And image three is from Cosmo covers in the 1970s.

Reactions to these clouds? What words appear the most? How has the frequency of words changed over time? What differences do you see between the "men's" magazine (Maxim) and the "women's" magazine (Cosmo)? Feel free to post comments to this blog entry.

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