Departments
2 Staff Notes
5 Letters/Masthead
6 In The Zone - Crash PLAYGIRL's 25th Anniversary Party
8 Planet PLAYGIRL - The Hot List, Sex Factoids, XXX-tra, Lap of Luxury,
PG Q&A, Wanderlust, On The Street, Reading Men's Minds, Outta Site,
Backtracks, Cartoon, Beauty
42 Sex Talk - Important intimate information by Dr. Joy Davidson
54 Recommends - From books, video releases and music to CD-ROM games and
sex toys, PLAYGIRL suggests only the best for your entertainment
74 Readers' Fantasy Forum
101 Lovesigns by J.C. Thompson. Let your planets plot your passions
104 Coming Up Features
22 Leonardo DiCaprio Nude! Hollywood's hottest heartthrob lets it all hang out
28 Love At First Bite - Find out if you've fallen for a vampire
29 Who's That PLAYGIRL - Shania Twain, country music's dynamic diva, stands
up for women
30 In Bed With Richard Ruccolo - This prime time Pizza boy really
delivers
36 Naughty Nightwear - Soap opera stars dress in passion fashion
38 Orgasms Forever - PLAYGIRL's ultimate guide to earth-shattering sex
40 The End of Impotence - Hard copy on Viagra and other erectile treatments
43 In Bed With Chris McDonald - The smoldering sitcom star lets us peruse
his closet of goods Pictorials
14 Discovery - Driving Hearts Wild - Titillating trucker Joey Dean makes
a special pit stop
44 Centerfold - Hot Property - Sensual Steven Kay is on the market for
love
56 Hot Young Hunk - Ryan Wirth - This ravishing Rollerblader is sure to
send your heart racing
64 Real Men - Jeff Eneboe, Domenico Crescenza, Steve Helt, Clyde Shaw,
Paul Stuart, Travis Wilson, Christopher R. Wilkinson, Ken Laybourn, Bill
Capley, Brian Petrucci, and Melvyn Wright.
68 Real Man of the Month - Melvyn Wright photographed by Jean-Pierre Bonin
82 Dream Lovers - Love Thy Neighbour - These frisky folks next door borrow
more than a cup of sugar
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Leonardo DiCaprio (Not Nude)
The Photos Hollywood's Heartthrob Didn't Want You To See!
Orgasms Forever: The Big "O" In 5 Easy Steps
Once Bitten Twice Shy: Been Sucked By A Vampire?
Sexy Soap Stars In their Naughty Nightwear
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.
