J-14 & Jessica Simpson's boogers
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Regardless of age, Americans seem to have an endless appetite for pictures of Jessica Simpson picking her boogers. But that terrain is still too uncouth for the editors at Seventeen or ELLEgirl. For better or worse, the classier teen magazines seem to have qualms about running endless stories on Ashlee Simpson’s fear of public urination; J-14 does not. …
The magazine knows that its audience’s purchasing power comes direct from mom and dad, who might be a tad uncomfortable if their daughters become too worldly too quickly. … In J-14, Paris Hilton’s sex tape isn’t even called a sex tape—it’s just an “Internet tape.”