Playgirl September 2002 Magazine Back Issue

DEPARTMENTS
5 Readers' Letters and email
6 Planet PLAYGIRL
Sex toys, movies, and more! Featuring everything a girl could possibly want. Chocolate? We've got Sharri's Berries. Beautifying products? BeneFit's luxurious line is it. Yes, diamonds are included.
78 Erotic Encounters
Readers' Fantasy Forum
84 Lovesigns
Let the planets plot your passions by Paige Prurient
85 Sex Talk
Important intimate information by Dr. Joy Davidson
FEATURES
10 PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK WITH PASSIONS' JAMES HYDE
The hunky soap star shares some very intimate details in this exclusive interview
18 SOAP HUNK RETRO
The sexiest soap stars we've ever photographed in one very hot feature
26 LIVE, LOVE, & LAUGH BETTER
A Playgirl guide
36 SUBMISSIONS: IMPOSSIBLE
Be your own boss-in and out of the bedroom
40 ASK THE GUYS
Why does your guy masturbate? Our guys spill all
PICTORIALS
28 Discovery California Dream
You'll like Brennan Lee. He's cool, laid back, and hot
42 Centerfold Desert Fox
Like an oasis, Mark Maes quenched our desires in the sand
54 Real Men
Does your man have what it takes? Tom Kelly, Herbert Hennes, Michael Bonfiglio, Darren Frank, Ryan Hall, Jean McCarr, Gabriel Warren, C.J. Kerr, D.J. Jones, and Perica Pacarek
60 SRING HEAT & SPRING FLING
We went to the Florida Keys for Spring Break to see what happens where the boys are...
70 Hot Young Hunk Peter
Scorpio on the rise
86 VOYEUR VIEW Apt. 2
She likes to watch him...he knows it

• Coverguy James Hyde (Nude)
• Charming The Pants Off... Passions' James Hyde
• You Asked For Them! 10 Superhot Soap Hunks Ingo Rademacher Ronn Moss Paul Logan Austin Peck and More
• 5 Fantastic Ways To Live and Love Better Learn Inside
• Be Your Own Boss In & Out Of The Bedroom

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.