TODD SAYS IT WAS WORTH IT

Cosmopolitan magazine vows to fight a lawsuit filed against the sex-drenched publication on Tuesday by Hazel Bixby, a Minneapolis mother of three who claims that her daughter Arletta exploded as a result of an article that appeared in Cosmo's current issue. According to Bixby, "Arletta and her boyfriend Todd were engaging in the 'Hot Sex' technique called the Bangladesh Mai Tai High Thigh when the intensity of my daughter's climax caused her pelvic region to erupt in a flaming inferno. The bedroom of the apartment was incinerated, and Todd received 2nd-degree burns." Attorneys for the magazine admit that the technique could have indeed caused such a conflagration, but assert there is no evidence indicating that Arletta ever read the article in question.