I don’t need a coffee-table book of naked women to find my favorite – it’s always been Cynthia Myers, who appeared in the December 1968 issue under the headline “Holy Toledo!” (The issue is particularly collectible because it’s almost impossible to find one that hasn’t been repeatedly opened, causing the staples to separate from the paper.) Her Centerfold probably got posted on more walls in Vietnam than any other and inspired countless young men to work hard to get home. In Steve Sullivan’s Bombshells, Cynthia recounts her reaction to seeing her Centerfold for the first time: "I didn't realize my breasts were that big! I'd never seen them from that angle. Wow! No wonder people were looking at me that way!" Cyber Club members can check out Cynthia’s home page. 

 

 

 

Three beauties from our February pictorial Women of Hooters spread took the Big Apple by storm today. They managed to lure intern Ben Conniff away from his desks (a difficult task) for a lunchtime autograph signing at the Hooters on West 56th Street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From left to right: Nesie Daglis, Beverly Mullins, and Kat Longa may have been at Hooters, but for today they passed up the tank top and short shorts for their own stylish street duds. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something tells us this guy wasn’t dialing his girlfriend… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey, even a Hooters girl’s gotta eat! Beverly ordered up her trademark Buffalo chicken sandwich from her beautiful waitress, Danielle.  

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When it comes to Valentine’s Day—now a mere two weeks away-- there is no need to hurt your brain trying to figure out what to sort of gift to bestow upon your girlfriend. As men have done since the dawn of Hallmark, just get ready to rock and rose. According to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Teleflora, a whopping 84% of women between the ages of 18 and 34 say diamonds and roses are the gifts that first come to mind on February 14, and 77% of men in the same age group are smart enough to agree. So if you want to kill two birds with one cupid’s arrow, or if you just feel inspired by this photo of Mena Suvari from American Beauty and want your girlfriend to re-enact Mena’s petal swim, Teleflora is making it easy with its Diamonds and Roses Bouquet. It combines a dozen roses with entry in a sweepstakes to win a pair of $50,000 diamond earrings and other prizes. And if your better half is immune to such a token of your passion, statistics suggest that you are probably dating a cold-hearted alien and should contact the Playboy Advisor immediately for assistance.

“Eva Green of The Dreamers will be in Casino Royale? Sweet! But who the hell is Caterina Murino?” That was our reaction, two years ago, when we heard that the Bond Girls had been chosen for Daniel Craig’s first 007 adventure.

Thus we’ve a slight sense of déjà vu with the announcement that Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton will be beautifying the film known (until further notice) as “Bond 22.” We learned of Kurylenko when scouting for movies awhile back – though we passed on Hitman, we resolved to keep an eye on the model and scene-stealer (note: link not likely to stick around too long).

A Google image search yields a whole lot of Olga. But who the hell is Gemma Arterton? Nobody seems to know much about her. Well, except for the shrewd folks who are calling her the next Keira Knightley.

Recently, Playboy.com visitors voted ESPN's Erin Andrews the sexiest sportscaster in America. Although we limited our selection to U.S. reporters, that didn't stop Toronto-based media blog Keminications from checking in with Playboy.com senior editor Sam Jemielity to talk about the poll, the winner and women in sports media. Check out the interview here.
 

Since the last time we reported on Playboy’s Polaroid Thursday—that magical time at Playboy Studio West in Santa Monica, California when we have an open casting call for potential Playmates—it has changed from a monthly to a weekly event.

This week we bumped into hopeful Shawnee Harkins (pictured), a 26-year-old Dallas native working as a certified personal trainer and sports nutritionist in Southern California. We were immediately charmed by her energy and positive attitude. “I want to be a Playmate because it is an honor to celebrate and show the beauty of the female body,” she says. So what does she think is her best physical feature? “I would say ‘my girls.’ I love to wear tank tops and fitted shirts to bring them out on display!”

Shawnee certainly knows her way around a gym, but does this upbeat trainer get gruff at one of the fitness boot camps that she oversees? “As a trainer I motivate with high positive energy, rather than the old-school yelling techniques,” she says. “Yes, I am very vocal, but I always keep it friendly and fun. For example, when hosting my Saturday boot camps on the beach, I must make it fun for clients who want to get up on Saturday morning to workout. But don't think for a second that I won't push you past your limits, because I will...but always with my Southern smile on my face!”

If you want to see more of Shawnee, leave a comment and send her some love and encouragement.

In our March issue we’ll be presenting our list of the 25 Sexiest Celebrities, as chosen by the readers and editors of Playboy. If you haven’t voted for your favorites, hustle your browser to the ballot page and fill out your ballot pronto. Some of the names there are shoo-ins, and there’s nothing wrong with that—a red-blooded male who doesn’t count our 2006 cover girl Jessica Alba among the top 25 might want to consider getting his head examined. Just saying. And then in a second category are the expected write-ins—the Adriana Limas and Jennifer Connollys of the world—and we won’t argue their worthiness either. And then way on down the line there are those women who get us (or at least one of us) going but will likely never make the Top 25. Here are some staff favorites; names have been omitted to protect the lustful.

Ann Curry. “The deep voice, the pencil skirts, the calf-length high-heeled boots—the Today Show co-host is my morning cup of coffee. I'm not into being slapped around by women, but I'd let Ann have a go if she wanted. Seems to me like she’d be a fun drunk, too.”

Valerie Plame Wilson. “Robert Novak outed her with the sentence ‘Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.’ Just imagine the mess he would have avoided if instead he’d written the just-as-true ‘Wilson doesn’t look like he would have a really hot wife, but lemme tell you, Valerie is a total fox.’”

Melanie Brown. “My problem, aesthethically speaking, with the Spice Girls was that they were all pretty hot, but it was hard to decide which one was the hottest. Reunited, they pose no such dilemma. Two of them are too skinny, two have gotten blander, but Eddie Murphy’s baby-momma looks better now than she did ten years ago. (Got through three whole sentences without using the term MILF.)”

Mariska Hargitay. “As Detective Olivia Benson on Law and Order: SVU, it’s her duty to investigate ‘sexually-based offenses [that] are considered especially heinous.’ I haven’t done anything terribly perverted yet, but if Mariska came a-knocking I’m sure we could come to some arrangement.”

Regina Deutinger. “We knew Janine Habeck (German Playmate of the year 2005) was special the first time we saw her; as Regina (German Playmate of the Month October 2006) proves, there’s more where that came from (for those of you who are a bit slow: Germany). We liked Regina’s Oktoberfest-themed dirndl-dropping pictorial so much when we included her in our international playmates feature April, and when it came time to pick a girl to feature in our beer feature a couple months back, there was really no contest. Is there anything more inviting than a beautiful woman holding a giant stein full of beer?”

Elyse Luray. “She’s a curvy NILF with a slight speech impediment who becomes palpably aroused while researching the shit out of some crusty piece of Americana on the PBS show History Detectives. The only woman for whom, ‘How about you come back to my place and appraise my poker, is a foolproof seal-the-deal line.”

Liz Cho. On WABC TV New York’s Eyewitness News, this smoldering talking head combines model looks with gratuitous coverage of triple homicides and little old lady muggings. If she’s this shameless on screen, what’s she like behind closed doors? 

Alyx Vance. “Beautiful, brave and tough as nails, Alyx lost her mother in the Black Mesa incident, and has devoted the rest of her life to stopping the Combine. If you're lost about now, you haven't played Half-Life 2, one of the best videogames of the last 5 years. If you're know what we're talking about, you know why she's on this list.”

Maria Bartiromo. “I’m not a money guy—duh, I’ve chosen to attempt to earn a living in magazine publishing. But MSNBC’s Money Honey makes me interested in the stock market ... for as long as she's on TV talking about it.”

Kat Von D. “She’s the sexiest tattooed chick around. With her own TV show airing on TLC and a following of over 3 million, she's easily one of the most beautiful women inside and out. She's no gal to mess with—I heart her.”

Lindsey Strutt. “There is really a bumper crop of Page 3 Girls at this moment in history; in the UK, ladies like Keeley Hazell, Sophie Howard, Michelle Marsh and Lucy Pinder have achieved a measure of genuine celebrity. And the younger ones are impressive as well, spanking new girls like Sam Cook, Katie-Marie Cork, Sammy Braddy, Kitty Lea. (We’re not going to give you a link to every one of those; you’re all capable Googlers.) Clearly, it’s hard for me to choose a favorite. But if push came to shove, one could do a lot worse than this: Lindsey Strutt pouring chocolate on herself. Mmm.”

Olivia Munn. “Not only is the co-host of G4's Attack of the Show sexy as all hell, but she knows her way around a viral internet meme and has that hint of dorkiness that makes you think she's probably very sweet in person.” (ed.: Olivia was one of our best-ever Babes of the Month, and we wouldn’t be surprised if she did make the Top 25 someday. She’s young, give her time.)

Hope Solo. “A blue-eyed blonde with a winning smile and a sexy sulk, Hope is/was the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. Women’s soccer team. She lashed out at her coach (rightly) and replacement (wrongly) when she was benched at the 2008 World Cup. When Hope was good, she was very good; when she was bad, she was better.”

Regina Spektor. “Regina has an offbeat beauty that is every bit the match for the intensity of her songwriting and performing. Between the way she pounds the keys, her ability to hurl immense sounds from her lungs and the little tics of accent and sub-vocalizations, resistance is, for me at least, utterly futile.”

Tea Leoni. “Tea has always done it for me. I’m the boss so I don’t have to explain why.”

Intern Nicole DeLuca gives us the low-down:
 
December cover girl Kim Kardashian has been receiving plenty of attention from the media after her pictorial hit it big with Playboy readers. No surprise, there: our loyal fans have great taste.
 
Recently, the New York Daily News had the pleasure of interviewing Kardashian about the experience of posing nude for our cameras. Guess what? She didn’t do it for the money. Rather, she was a woman on a mission. “I did it because I’m not one of those stick-skinny girls you see,’’ she said. "I felt like girls today need to see a normal body.”  
 
Amen! I’m sure both men and women are grateful for her nicely curved, voluptuous body.

We needed a female perspective on erotic writing, so we turned to our intern Nicole DeLuca for some help:

This past week, I had the pleasure of reading Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women, a collection of erotic stories written by and for women. Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel compiles a plethora of intense, sexual fantasies imagined by the everyday female mind, and all I can say is: cold shower, anyone?

Each essay had its own kinky fabrication, reminding us that men aren’t the only ones with sex on the mind. If anything, these stories outweigh any porn video that man ever created. From masturbation with the help of a stranger to steamy, "I want to make you bleed" sex, it'll leave you with a puddle of drool and the urge to jump on anyone who walks by you.

The book won’t be in stores until March 2008, but that doesn’t mean you can’t think of your own erotic fantasies in the meantime. "Dirty Girls is bound to inspire you to do something dirty," it proclaims, and I can promise you that yes, it certainly does. With that said, it's now time to chain myself to my desk so I don’t become the target of a sexual-harassment suit.

Our inquiring intern Nicole DeLuca has questions. If you ever meet her, be prepared to respond:

Time to consider your relationship etiquette. I created a survey that may provide some insight as to how men treat their women these days. Sometimes I feel men may not realize how they act towards people in. Take this little quiz, if only for amusement purposes, and see where you rate. I’d be curious to know.

1) When you and your girlfriend fight, what is your most common response?
a) I’m sorry.
b) Yes, dear.
c) Is that so?  
d) End of discussion.
e) Take a Xanax!

2) After sex, what is your usual routine?
a) Cuddle in bed with my woman.  
b) Zone out and fondle myself.
c) Surprise her with hot wax that you really don’t know how to use, resulting in 2nd degree burns.
d) Get up and do my own thing.
e) Email the Playboy Advisor about this weird itch you have.

3) How do you treat your woman around your friends?
a) The exact same way if we were alone.
b) I make sure everyone knows that she is mine.
c) She sits there as my buddies and I talk.
d) I make jokes and slap her ass.
e) I don’t bring her around my friends.

4) Who makes weekend plans for you and your sweetie?
a)    We both do.
b)    I do, but I ask her opinion.
c)    She does.
d)    Her mother does.
e)    We don’t hang out on the weekends.

5) Your honey is stressed out and needs some TLC. What do you do?
a)    Give her a nice massage and get her favorite snack.
b)    Lay in bed with her while watching TV.
c)    Leave her alone and call up my buddies.
d)    Ask if she wants to have sex.  You don’t mind if she just lies there.
e)    I tell her to take her meds.

Results:
Mostly A and B: Can I have your number?
Mostly B and C: You may be a little evasive.
Mostly D and E: Are you trying to be single?

Cartoon courtesy of Everyday People Cartoons.

Our fall intern Nicole DeLuca has some dating advice for guys:

Oftentimes, what a man seems to be and what he actually is are quite different. Case in point: I had plans one night to meet a guy at a local mall. A few of my friends came along as a safety device, of course. He seemed interesting, so I decided to take everyone to my backyard instead of standing in the parking lot—I’m such the romantic. The chemistry between us was surprisingly strong, and even my friends were giving me the “good find” gesture.

Then things went awry.

We started talking about sex, a normal conversational topic among people my age. Normal stuff at first, but then this:

“I’ve done some bad things to girls, but I like to get them out now rather than later.” (There won’t be a “later,” buddy.) “I bent her over my pool table and broke a CD over her head,” talking about a girl he’d slept with. The smirk on his face made me cringe. Did he really think that his sex stories were going to make me wild and crazy for him?

He went on to say, “You know that girl I introduced you to in the parking lot?” Jumping off my top deck seemed like a good option at this point. “Well I had sex with her last night. That’s why she was following me. She wants me bad.” 

A fake yawn came out of my mouth. “I’m really tired. It was nice talking to you, but I need to go to bed. Too much partying I guess.” A few forced laughs and smiles later and I finally had him walking to his car. He leaned up against the door, waiting for me to make the move to kiss him, because obviously he was irresistible to every woman. I gave him a pat on the back. “It was nice meeting you. I’ll talk to you soon.”  Before he could spit out one word, I did a two-step and started to jog back to my house. I waved goodbye and slammed my front door: There is a god.

This story should illustrate the dos and don’ts of blind dating, or perhaps a lesson for all men to learn from. I’ll say it once and only once—the first time you meet a woman, and you want to get in her pants, DO NOT tell her that you slept with a ton of women, and/or slammed a CD over someone’s head during sex.

You have to feel sorry for the editor assigned to write captions for pictorials such as the smokin’ Girls of the SEC in the October issue. They spend two or three days staring at layouts filled with photos of nude women, and sometimes the sheer libido overload makes your eyes cross.

The photo in the middle of page 117 of the two women from Auburn shows not Brittney Brookwood but Alyssa Tyler.

You can see more photos of our SEC women inside the Cyber Club. And after the jump is an unpublished and not-safe-for-work shot of the stunning Brittney.

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The British lingerie company Agent Provocateur launches a new advertising campaign today starring that very sexy, very talented, very tall actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. The campaign is called Lessons in Lingerie, and after seeing this advance photo, we’re going to sign up for the course, the lab, the tutoring sessions, the extra credit assignments. And declare a major.

The boys over at The Big Lead put together an all-star team of baseballers who have dated babes.

They did miss a few, however:

Mrs. Jose Lima (pictured here), Mrs. Mark Kotsay,