ARTICLES
30 Rex Reed: The Inside Outsider
36 FDA Coverup on Contraceptives, Part I
40 How To Be a Good Mixer
48 The Disillusioned Generation .
52 Serpico of the Senate ;.
54 Sex Hotline: Dial for Directions
64 Playgirl's Man for January - Bob Prince
80 You Want Something Neurotic, Don't You?"- An Interview with Totie
Fields
84 Breast Cancer Surgery-Have You Any Choice?
114 Playgirl's Discovery
FEATURES
A Playgirl Fantasy 18 New Year's Eve, 1948
Michele Hardeman -Travel 58 Las Vegas
Paul Roth - Beauty 89 Put It On -Take It Off!
Paul Roth - Fashion 92 Resort Wear '75 - Bare Power!
Playgirl Entertains 98 Direct from Las Vegas ... Hank Milam - Designs in
Living 100 The High Life
Lu Nowels 134 Playgirl's Puzzle
REVIEWS
26 Films
27 Books
28 Music
FICTION
106 The Hermit Crab
108 Seventy Times Seven
DEPARTMENTS
9 Editor's Column
10 Voices/Letters to the Editor
12 About People - If I Knew Then What I Know Now
25 You and Your Money -Assaying the Golden Fleece
44 Playgirl's Personal Horoscope
74 Playgirl Sensoria
76 Women in Sports- Debbie Mason
78 You and Your Sexuality
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Joe Lewis & Barbara Leigh (Not Nude)
Playgirl In Las Vegas Male Nude Backstage
Centerfold - Sexy New Actor
Resort Wear '75 - Bare Power
Government Coverup On Contraceptives - Part 1
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.
