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Playgirl Interview with Starship Trooper Star Casper Van Dien

Playgirl Interview with Starship Trooper Star Casper Van Dien

Casper Van Dien is hot. His sizzling acting career boasts more than two dozen movie credits (Starship Troopers, Tarzan and the Lost City, Sleepy Hollow) and more than five dozen roles in television (“Beverly Hills 90210”, “Saved by the Bell”, “Monk”). He's starred in his own Lifetime TV reality show “I Married a Princess”, acts as ambassador for Egard Watch Company, and is now making his directorial debut with an adaptation of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty—which he also has a role in. Another directorial credit follows soon after with A Patient Killer. On top of all this, he recently wrapped up work with his wife Catherine Oxenberg and her bestie Gabrielle Anwar on Sexology, a documentary that reexamines the state of female sexuality and arousal in the 21st Century.

While there are many people comfortable in the spotlight, few look as good while they're in it. Van Dien is distractingly handsome—it's no wonder he scored the title "Sexiest Soap Star" from People Magazine back in 2000. Of course, anyone who saw the Starship Troopers shower scene—or has so much as taken a look at this man—already could have told you that. Know this: The years have done nothing to diminish his sex appeal. Van Dien sat down with Playgirl to give us his insights on male beauty, his favorite acting role, and full-body orgasms.

Reclaiming the Pussy: A Modern-Day Woman's Manifesto

Reclaiming the Pussy: A Modern-Day Woman's Manifesto

The pussy is the first wonder of the world.

That labially adorned chute is the portal through which all life hitchhikes onto this mortal coil. That muscular mass is solely responsible for so much arousal; its pink and tan and brown and bluish velvety folds so welcoming and soft as to bring knights in armor to their knees. The fertile crescent—that hotbed of humanity that spawned the human race and nourished it on its uphill climb to the top of the proverbial food chain—refers explicitly to fertility. To womanhood. To the pussy.

Sexology: TV Star Catherine Oxenberg Takes on the Female 'O'

Sexology: TV Star Catherine Oxenberg Takes on the Female 'O'

It's surprising, to say the least. In a world where many consider feminism passe—where you can purchase a vibrator or dildo just as easily as you can a pair of shoes—roughly one-third of all women have never experienced an orgasm. In 2014, a half-century after the so-called sexual revolution, women are still very much strangers to their own bodies. Unable to access our own innate sexual energy, we allow sexuality to be equated with promiscuity, ejaculation with penises, and sex itself with intercourse and penetration.

Interview with Mad Men's Bryan Batt

Bryan Batt is an actor, designer, civic activist, and author most widely known for his two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning performance as Salvatore “Sal” Romano on “Mad Men”. Bryan played Sal, the Italian-American head art director at Sterling Cooper, for the show's first three seasons.

AMC's critically acclaimed dramatic series has been lauded with awards including Emmys, Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Peabody award. Between his days traveling between New York, New Orleans and Los Angeles, he sat down with Playgirl to discuss his theater career, love life, and perspectives his “Mad Men” character.

Busking with Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor

From their days of busking in the streets to receiving a gold record for their recording of the iconic song “Wagon Wheel”, the men of Old Crow Medicine Show have charmed the pants off bluegrass, Americana, folk, and alt-country fans alike. After getting their start in 1998 in Upstate New York, fiddle player Ketch Secor and his merry band of musicians hit the road; playing music on street corners to whoever would lend an ear. They were “discovered” in North Carolina by none other than Doc Watson's daughter, who took her father over to the curb they played on. He offered the guys a gig at his MerleFest and the rest, as they say, is history. With their fourth studio album out this past July and another tour to boot, Ketch Secor, Critter Fuqua, Kevin Hayes, Morgan Jahnig, Gill Landry, and Chance McCoy are at the top of their games. We caught up with frontman Ketch Secor (fiddle, harmonica, banjo, and vocals) to chat about his band, family, and musical beginnings.

PR Newser: Playgirl and Playboy make matching 'celebrity' PR moves

by Joe Ciarallo

Both Playgirl and Playboy are getting aggressive with "celebrity" PR maneuvers this week. Marge Simpson will appear nude in Playboy's November issue to celebrate The Simpson's 20th Anniversary.

Meanwhile, Levi Johnston, ex-boyfriend of Bristol Palin and father of Sarah Palin's granddaughter will appear nude in Playgirl. Will the PR push around these covers lead to increased sales? Time will tell. It's certainly already leading to increased buzz.

Former Playgirl editor-in-chief Nicole Caldwell, who is still working with the publication on some special projects, tells PRNewser, "Levi Johnston is the best and brightest thing to come out of the Palin campaign. It's a pleasure to go from the straight-talk express to the hot jock undressed. The shoot is tentatively scheduled for the first week of November, and I'm just sorry I won't be there to see this beautiful man in person."

Johnston, who is training six days a week to prep for the shoot, is also looking into reality shows (of course), his publicist Tank Jones told the AP.

[Originally posted on PRNewser Oct. 8, 2009]

Open Playgirl Casting Call to Eliot Spitzer

NYMag cover-spitzer

Dear Eliot,

It's not fair. We've been watching you; and we've seen how you've been crucified by the mass media, conservatives, and Republicans. We've stood by

as your call-girl was offered $1 million by

Hustler

to show the world what she's already been showing the world for a whole lot less.

We think

you've had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

. But we've been thinking.

Your political career is sadly over; and you owe a lot of money to a lot of people. Hell, you may land in jail before too long. So consider this letter a brief note of urgency.

How about making some loot back, by showing us what you saved for such a select few? How about strutting your sexuality, and defending your right to get down for the magazine and

Playgirl.com

? Couldn't you use a little rent money right about now? Seriously—get in touch with us. We're ready to make you a very attractive offer. Someone get Spitzer on the line:

Playgirl

needs him naked, now.

[Originally posted at

playgirl.com/blog

]

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