FEATURES
10 SMART. BEAUTIFUL
Not just another pretty face—Lou Diamond Phillips knows all about what
really counts by Cindy Pearlman
28 MY BODY/MY CHOICE/MY AMBIVALENCE
Even for the staunchly pro-choice, the decision to abort is rife with emotional
complications. One woman recounts her own experiences by Gwen Lehmann
58 A THINKING WOMAN'S GUIDE TO BIMBOISM
Sometimes playing dumb is the smartest game in town—here's how and why
by Nina Malkin
72 SURVIVING THE SEX-VID EXPLOSION
Have X-Rated Rentables Really Opened the Gates to Honesty and Communication
Between the Sexes—or Has the Erotic Tidal Wave Come Crashing Back in Our
Faces? By Catherine Tavel PICTORIALS
20 LIVE FROM NEW YORK... It's Don Masters! TV viewers elected him this month's
Discovery—and with damn good reason!
32 DROWNING The experience will leave you breathless
44 BAD REPUTATION Ya gotta love PLAYGIRL's Man for April. Breathtaking Peter
Romero possesses the soul of a poet and the body of... you decide.
68 HOT TOPIC McCann Utu sizzles in a return performance—and it's one you
won't want to miss! FASHION
38 STERLING CHARACTER Everything's coming up silver in Spring '91 by Barbara
Haigh FICTION
64 PHYSICS Your subconscious may be trying to tell you something by Laurie J.
Schorr DEPARTMENTS
6 THE EDITOR'S PAGE
7 LETTERS
8 TRENDWATCH Fun stuff to give and to receive by Lynn Reich
14 IDOL GOSSIP The dirt on Hollywood by Susan Bax
17 THE WOMEN'S ROOM The Trouble With Happy Endings
Are silver screen duos really "happy ever after?" By Cindy Pearlman
19 THE MEN'S ROOM A Place For Everything
Call it a case of reverse slobism by Ray Haigh
27 QUIZ Are You Management Material? By Sherry Suib Cohen
42 QUICKIES Late-breaking health news by Judy Gee
52 READER'S FANTASY FORUM
57 SEX TALK Intimate issues and answers by Dr. Theresa L. Crenshaw
62 REAL MEN Readers' honeys strut their stuff. Robert Watts, Eric Henderson,
Ben Minken, Giovanni Mazzei, and Raphael Locher
76 LOVESCOPES What's in your stars by Robin MacNaughton
98 COMING UP
