FEATURES
15 RUBBER EMPORIUM
Check in with Condomania-the store that specializes in dressing Mr. Happy. By Sallie James
26 PLAYGIRL INTERVIEW: BO-DACIOUS! Days of Our Lives suds-stud Robert Kelker-Kelly
comes clean about sex, love and...Hamlet? By Judy Cole
76 NUCLEAR HEAD
Jump on the Triple-XXX bandwagon for the ride of a lifetime! By Nannette LaRee
Hernandez
84 THE MAKING OF M. BUTTERFLY
Learn how director David Cronenberg and international`' star Jeremy Irons put
a new twist on human sexuality. By Deirdre Kelly PICTORIALS
16 DISCOVERY: NAUGHTY BY NATURE
Adso Williams has a sound mind-and a sounder body
34 DON'T THINK TWICE, HE'S ALL RIGHT!
Sexy Dylan Scott is music to the eyes
49 CENTERFOLD: LOVER'S LANE
Taste one of life's sweetest rewards, Greg Lane
68 FARE PLAY
A businesswoman and her taxi drivin' man test out love in overdrive
92 MOUNTAIN MAN
The height of ecstasy: Hunky David Aspenson FICTION
42 ROLE PLAY
In the theater of desire, we all act out many parts. By Karin Dallas DEPARTMENTS
5 THE EDITOR'S PAGE What's up with this issue. By Charmian Carl
6 LETTERS Here's what you thought
8 THE PROBE Chastity Bono and Ceremony; hot U.S. import, singer David Broza;
Russian women manhandle the goods; and more! By Jenny Higgons
13 HEALTH BYTES Late-breaking health and fitness news. By Judy Cole
23 THE WOMEN'S ROOM Don't Burn My Bra!
The tale of a prodigal feminist. By Lorene Farnsworth
25 THE MEN'S ROOM My Penis, Myself.
When less is more. By Paul Lyons
33 QUIZ: IS YOUR JOB IN JEOPARDY?
Find out if you're on the way up or on the way out. By Sherry Suib Cohen
46 SEX TALK Intimate issues and answers by Sarah Hutter
58 READERS' FANTASY FORUM
Romance can happen in the most unexpected places
64 LOVESCOPES By Robin MacNaughton
83 WOMEN NOW Suck On This! An oral retort. By Kristen Jenkins
86 REAL MEN Does your man have what it takes? Jeff Putnam, Matt Foster, and
Jimmy Barkley
89 ROMANCE BOOK REVIEWS Compiled by Charlene Keel
104 COMING UP
Features
Coverguy Robert Kelker-Kelly (Not Nude)
Naked & Natural: Magnificent Men In The Wild
Robert Kelker-Kelly: Days of Our Lives' Bo Brady
Tongue Tied? How to Give Super Head
Sexual Role-Playing: The Many Faces of Lust
Magazine History
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.
