Playgirl April 1991

FEATURES 10 SMART. BEAUTIFUL Not just another pretty face—Lou Diamond Phillips knows all about what really counts by Cindy Pearlman 28 MY BODY/MY CHOICE/MY AMBIVALENCE Even for the staunchly pro-choice, the decision to abort is rife with emotional complications. One woman recounts her own experiences by Gwen Lehmann 58 A THINKING WOMAN'S GUIDE TO BIMBOISM Sometimes playing dumb is the smartest game in town—here's how and why by Nina Malkin 72 SURVIVING THE SEX-VID EXPLOSION Have X-Rated Rentables Really Opened the Gates to Honesty and Communication Between the Sexes—or Has the Erotic Tidal Wave Come Crashing Back in Our Faces? By Catherine Tavel PICTORIALS 20 LIVE FROM NEW YORK... It's Don Masters! TV viewers elected him this month's Discovery—and with damn good reason! 32 DROWNING The experience will leave you breathless 44 BAD REPUTATION Ya gotta love PLAYGIRL's Man for April. Breathtaking Peter Romero possesses the soul of a poet and the body of... you decide. 68 HOT TOPIC McCann Utu sizzles in a return performance—and it's one you won't want to miss! FASHION 38 STERLING CHARACTER Everything's coming up silver in Spring '91 by Barbara Haigh FICTION 64 PHYSICS Your subconscious may be trying to tell you something by Laurie J. Schorr DEPARTMENTS 6 THE EDITOR'S PAGE 7 LETTERS 8 TRENDWATCH Fun stuff to give and to receive by Lynn Reich 14 IDOL GOSSIP The dirt on Hollywood by Susan Bax 17 THE WOMEN'S ROOM The Trouble With Happy Endings Are silver screen duos really "happy ever after?" By Cindy Pearlman 19 THE MEN'S ROOM A Place For Everything Call it a case of reverse slobism by Ray Haigh 27 QUIZ Are You Management Material? By Sherry Suib Cohen 42 QUICKIES Late-breaking health news by Judy Gee 52 READER'S FANTASY FORUM 57 SEX TALK Intimate issues and answers by Dr. Theresa L. Crenshaw 62 REAL MEN Readers' honeys strut their stuff. Robert Watts, Eric Henderson, Ben Minken, Giovanni Mazzei, and Raphael Locher 76 LOVESCOPES What's in your stars by Robin MacNaughton 98 COMING UP