Bad Girls Go Everywhere, But Where Do Good Wives Go?

A new book is out and about entitled, "Bad Girls Go Everywhere." This 270 page biography is about the life and times of 'chic, intelligent and free-wheeling Cosmo girl' Helen Gurley Brown. The bio (priced at $27.95) has already sparked controversy - was she a blessing for single girls, a curse for married woman or a ground-breaking liberator of both?

Brown's 1962 book, Sex and the Single Girl, sold over 2 million copies in just three weeks, but instead of changing a male-dominant system -like followers of the women's movement - she showed women how to manipulate it.

Charlotte Hays, of the Wall Street Journal, doesn't buy the praise lavished on Brown in the book by Scanlon, saying Brown was a woman who "disdained housewives-and slept with more than a few of their husbands, simply because doing so afforded her more money or a better apartment. Call Brown 'Shrewd' but don't call her a feminist hero."

Indeed, Brown has claimed to have been "sexually involved" with a boss or a colleague at every office that she worked while single. And she didn't marry until she was 37-years-old - a lot of time to 'cat around' and then to David Brown, a movie producer.

After her best-selling book, Brown ran Cosmopolitan Magazine for 35 years, encouraging women to live larger lives, establish careers and embrace their sexuality. To this day, Brown still over-sees Cosmo's foreign editions.

It may be fun and exciting to be a swinging single Cosmo girl - at least until that liberated girl lands in bed with YOUR husband - and then, perhaps, it ain't so sexy.. is it?