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Does Cosmo deserve a plain brown wrapper?

"I know it when I see it."

That, of course, is how former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined pornography in 1964, ruling in a case involving a Cleveland movie theater manager who'd been prosecuted for screening Louis Malle's “The Lovers.” (Stewart deemed it not pornographic.)

But what would Stewart have thought of Cosmopolitan magazine, a publication whose famously racy cover lines — “Be a Sex Genius,” “Make Him Ache for You,” “15 Places to Have ‘Fast Love'” — are almost a genre unto themselves?