FEATURES
24 Oscar De La Hoya
Jump into the ring and go head to head with boxing's winning beauty by Joan
Tarshis
30 Sister Sluggers
Knockout women are proving boxing isn't just for men anymore by Gabrielle L.
Gabrielle
32 Sexy Holiday Fashion
Keep him sizzling! Plus-great gifts for him
38 The 10 Sexiest Men of 1997
Find out which celebrity studs won PLAYGIRL's most prestigious award
68 Holiday Party Survival Guide
Learn how to make each of this season's gala events an affair to remember by
Anita Sarko
70 Under Wraps
Discover what your man's underwear says about his sex style By Gabrielle L.
Gabrielle
Insert PLAYGIRL 1998: Daily Planner
Get organized with our handy, purse-size date book PICTORIALS
10 Readers' Discovery: A Reel Catch
Rendezvous with idyllic isand rover Erik Kristian
46 Centerfold: Wardrobe of Wind
Horse around with fabulous farm boy Carl
74 Body Study: Sultry SightSeer
Studly Lance Mosley strikes a seductive pose
94 Dream Lovers: Mgnetic Attraction
A student sculptress toils over her body of work DEPARTMENTS
1 To Our Readers: Climb between our sheets
5 Letters: Was it good for you?
6 In The Zone
David Lee Roth is still a gigolo; Paula Abdul goes shopping for sex;
Cindy Crawford's jealous lover spoils a centerfold spread
8 Stripped & Famous: Celebrity Couples
Fame and fortunate! A close-up look at Hollywood's hitched
18 Planet PLAYGIRL
The Hot List, Lap of Luxury, Reading Men's Minds, On the Street, PG2000, Holiday
Gift Guide
58 Real Men
Does your man have what it takes? Sean Casey, Allen Scarpuzzi, Jerry Tate, George
Rybárik, Marcus Parisi, Todd Miner, Guiseppe Valentino, Mark Brown, Dana
Savino, Remy St-Felix, and Andrew Kobe
62 Real Man of the Month
Meet our super-sexy hometown hunk for December
82 Sex Talk
Intimate issues and answers ByJoy Davidson, Ph.D
86 Readers' Fantasy Forum
Romance, love and lust can happen in the most unexpected places
101 Lovesigns
Let your planets plot your passions by J. C. Thompson
104 Coming Up
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Oscar De La Hoya (Not Nude)
Free Inside! Purse-Size 1998 Datebook
The Year's 10 Sexiest Men
Celebrities Who Stole Our Hearts: Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Noah Wyle, George Strait, Matt Lauer
Exclusive Interview: Boxing's Champ Of Romance
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.
