SEXY NUMBERS 20 SHY GUY
Fiction by W. Michaels
34 LONG WAY HOME
Fiction by M.White
46 BEST FRIENDS
Fiction by K.C. Anderson
74 BEACH BOY
Fiction by C. Peters HOT NUMBERS:
In this issue of Numbers we give you what you really want under your Christmas
tree, seven hot studs to warm you all over. Thanks Santa!
11 JOHN COUGAR
Photography: All Worlds Video
25 KEN MASTERS
Photography: Charles Woods Photography
37 JEREMY FOX
Photography: Vivid Video
52 Michael BRAUN
Photography: All Worlds Video
66 MARC Saber
Photography: Vivid Video
78 LANCE STEWART
Photography: Matt Oxley
89 Cody Foster
Photography: Catalina Video FIRST NUMBERS
5 This month, Editor-in-Chief Robert Leighton gives you the best Christmas present
anyone could give. NUMBERS TO NUMBERS
6 We receive comments in the mail all the time about Numbers. Turn to page six
and see what other readers have to say. This month some of our loyal readers want
to see more...dicks. More, more, more! That's what we're here for! REAL NUMBERS
8 Readers who aren't shy display their numbers. It's time to get off your ass
and get your photos in to us. What better way to show off what you've got and
to do it for free. There's no charge to be a member of this club, so lets go!
If you think you're too hot, let us be the ones to decide. Get snapping!
EDITORIAL NOTE
Believe it or not, it's that time of year again! That time when the Christmas
Spirit is literally bombarded and crushed by the rampant commercialism that nowadays
is so prevalent that the real meaning of Christmas has almost cease to exist.
Christmas, of course, isn't really Christ's birthday. No one really knows when
that was. Instead it based on a pagan holiday—as are many others. It has
been traditional for millenia to exchange gifts with friends and loved ones on
this day, in addition to honoring Christ, but in the past twenty or thirty years,
the religious aspect of the holiday, not to mention the spiritual, has been increasingly
ignored, while commercialism has run rampant to the degree that some children
have no idea that Christmas is anything other than a day to expect lots of gifts.
We have no objection to receiving gifts and we find joy in giving them. Even though
we are not particularly religious, we still find the change in the spirit of the
holiday more than slightly repugnant. We are bomarded with advertisements and
TV commercials for Christmas giving months in advance of the actual holiday.
Not too many years ago the first Christmas ads traditionally appeared after Thanksgiving.
Now we're seeing a smattering as early as August; they begin to appear in greater
numbers in September and by October they are inescapable. Newspapers, television
commercials, mailings and even billboards are all exhorting us to buy earlier
and earlier every year. It reached the offensive stage several years ago. Now
it has gone beyond the offensive, if that is possible.
Think what it would be like if the millions of dollars spent on advertising could
be somehow diverted to good and just causes, like feeding the starving or helping
the homeless or finding a cure for AIDS. I realize that is a Utopian dream. But
the millions and millions more that is spent on Christmas gifts, cards, clothes,
etc. could make a real difference in the world if it was put to a real, spiritual
cause.
I would like to propose that all of us, when we are putting together our Christmas
budgets, dedicate half of the money we intend to spend to a charitable cause.
Donations to your local AIDS organization or another charity in the names of friends
will do far more good than another sweater or some frivolous gift. And I would
urge my gift giving friends to do the same.
It is a way to return to the real spiritual meaning of the holiday that will rejuvenate
your spirit at the same time. I know when I receive a card from a charity informing
me that a gift has been made in my name, it means more to me than any gift I receive.
I'm sure you'll feel the same way too.
