Despite publishing its first issue in 1886, Cosmopolitan magazine seems to have taken a sharp turn over its near century-and-a-half on newsstands, swapping articles on fashion, domestic trends, and cooking for some of the most unhinged advice and articles ever penned, encouraging readers to role-play as clowns, two time their lovers and rock a drawn-on unibrow.

From offering eight reasons why cheating isn't that big of a deal to publishing inspiring stories for women with long earlobes, here are 26 incredibly stupid Cosmopolitan headlines that prove it should stay irrelevant.