The magazine that has sold millions of dollars in chemical sunscreen advertising in exchange for leading a public relations charge to restrict teenagers from tanning salons has now been targeted by thousands of angry consumers who want to ban its teen-inappropriate covers from grocery store racks.

Fox News reported this week that Cosmopolitan Magazine is the target of a petition and a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that the magazine’s cover material — which frequently includes racy pictures of teen-age girls — is inappropriate for young eyes in grocery store check-out lines.

“Cosmopolitan magazine released its February issue this week featuring 17-year-old Dakota Fanning as the cover girl, surrounded by article captions such as ‘His Best Sex Ever,’ ‘Too Naughty To Stay Here: But You Have to Try This Sex Trick,’ Fox reported.

According to Fox, a petition with more than 10,000 signatures asking that Cosmo be treated like an X-rated magazine — with its cover hidden by a wrap when sold at newsstands — has already turned heads. And the petition’s founder, Nicole Weider, has contacted the Federal Trade Commission to get help on filing an effective complaint.

“As a former reader of the magazine, I happened to pick up an issue and was reading it and was completely shocked at how pornographic and explicit the content had become. I immediately thought of my young teenage brothers and it horrified me to think that they and their friends could be reading this material, and the damage it would do to them if they did,” Weider told FOX. “So I decided to do something about it.”

To read the Fox story, click here.