Does Sex Really Sell? Apparently not!

Go watch the australian cougar bourbon ads and tell me sex doesnt sell

Okay, we discussed movies and then someone mentioned magazines. You really think sex sells magazines? Here's the top 35 Magazines by Circulation in the U.S. This list is in order.

NRTA/AARP BULLETIN
Modern Maturity
Reader's Digest
TV Guide
National Geographic Magazine
Better Homes and Gardens
Family Circle
Good Housekeeping
McCall's
Ladies' Home Journal
Woman's Day
Time Magazine
People Weekly
Home & Away
Sports Illustrated
Newsweek
Prevention
Playboy
Cosmopolitan
Westways
The American Legion Magazine
VIA Magazine
Southern Living
Guideposts
Seventeen
Redbook
Martha Stewart Living
Glamour
YM
Maxim
U.S. News & World Report
Teen
National Enquirer
Smithsonian
Parents

Okay, so WHY does Playboy come in 18th? (PlayGirl didn't make the list at all.) Maxim, which I personally expected to do better, comes in at a devistating 30th.