ARTICLE
40 Radical Breakthrough In Sex Therapy - Gwen Gibson
44 Changing Room: Stark and Naked - Barry Glasser
48 Karen Black: Playgirl Plays It Back - Marin Scott Milam
60 George Maharis: Playgirl's Man For July - Toni Holt
80 Should Lesbians Be Mothers? - Anne Taylor Fleming
84 Young Man At Sea: Playgirl's Nude Discovery
FEATURES
22 Peter Welcomes You To Greece - Delores Banerd
76 The Long Cool Summer: A Fashion Essay - Mr. Blackwell
102 Fashion Moves - Aghayan-Mackie
110 Macho x 3
REVIEWS
57 Echoes & Vibrations: Music Reviews - Julianne Thomas
58 Literary Whirl: Book Reviews - Susan Wolfe
59 Cinema Set: Movie Reviews - Betty Wise
FICTION
93 A Friend, Indeed - Albert Benton
72 Millie - Michael Fessier, Jr.
SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS
10 inter-course - Letters
12 Doctor, May I Ask ... - Norton F. Kristy, Ph.D.
14 Delights & Offenses
16 On The Prowl - Marvene Jones
18 Reaching Out: Playgirls On The Move
29 Playgirl Entertains: Seductions in Food & Drink - Dixon Payne
30 Bennstrom On Bodies - Dr. Anne-Marie Bennstrom
32 Beauty Digest - Aida Grey
34 Astrology - John J. Bradford
36 Homemade Beauty Formulas - Gwen Allen
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Serge (Not Nude)
Radical Breakthrough In Sex Therapy
Four Page Centerfold: Bold And Beautiful George Maharis
Broadway Turns To Voyeurism - Sex Violence And Box Office Receipts
Playgirl's Nude Discovery For The Month Of July
About Playgirl
Playgirl is a print monthly adult magazine published in the United States that is marketed mainly to heterosexual women, but has also gained a considerable gay following. It features general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to semi-nude or fully nude men.
The magazine was founded in 1973 during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse that featured similar photos of women. For the period March 2009 until February 2010, it appeared only online. The magazine reverted to print with its March 2010 issue.
Playgirl is published by New York-based company Blue Horizon Media, which also publishes High Society, Celebrity Skin, Hawk, Cheri and a number of other hardcore pornographic magazines.
The magazine had been published earlier by Drake Publishers (later renamed Crescent Publishing Group, Inc). Crescent was charged in 2000 by the Federal Trade Commission with over 180 million dollars of online credit card fraud, much of which was conducted on the Playgirl Magazine site. All Crescent/Blue Horizon titles, including Playgirl, were prevented from conducting any business on the web for five years. Then-president Bruce Chew was subsequently indicted, along with several prominent members of the Gambino crime family.
In August 2008, the magazine announced that it would cease publication of its print edition as of the January 2009 issue. After that point, the magazine planned to continue with an online-only edition. The last print issue was published in January/February of 2009.
In February 2010, Playgirl announced it will re-launch issuing a print edition of the magazine. The first such issue would be the March 2010 issue available on newsstands as of 22 February 2010 carrying on its cover Levi Johnston.
