"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?