Sex and the Single Girl and Brown also attempted to have the book censored or banned in the United States as a marketing gimmick, but they were unsuccessful. The book also was endorsed on the jacket by Joan Crawford and Gypsy Rose Lee, and the 2003 edition is endorsed on the back cover by "Sex and the City"'s Kim Cattrall. Following the success of "Sex and the Single Girl", Brown became the editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine in 1965, and went on to publish several other books which include "Sex and the Office" (1965), "Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook" (1969), and "Sex and the New
Cosmopolitan (magazine) from the point of view that women could and should enjoy sex without guilt. The first issue under Helen Gurley Brown, July 1965, featured an article on the birth control pill, which had gone on the market exactly five years earlier. This was not Brown's first publication dealing with sexually liberated women. Her 1962 advice book, "Sex and the Single Girl", had been a bestseller. Fan mail begging for Brown's advice on many subjects concerning women's behavior, sexual encounters, health, and beauty flooded her after the book was released. Brown sent the message that a woman should have men complement