Playboy October 2009

COVER STORY Bloodlust is pandemic, be it in True Blood, Twilight or our Love Bites pictorial, brought to us by Polish PLAYBOY. For the cover, photographer Rankin captures Kiera Gormley sinking her fangs into the soft, supple skin of Tuuli, while our Rabbit lurks in the shadows. That's undead sexy. FEATURES 48 PIRATES OF SOMALIA This is the story of terrorists on the high seas. Somali pirates have received much ire in the media, but do you really know their side of the story? SHASHANK BENGAL traverses troubled waters to ask them face-to-face why they maraud. 60 BAD TO THE BONE The 1970s Oakland Raiders were part Hells Angels, part rock stars. KEVIN COOK gathers an oral history of the baddest team ever. PLUS: We give you this season's winners. 64 ANDY RICHTER GROWS UP Richter takes a hike in the Hollywood Hills (yes, seriously) with ERIC SPITZNAGEL and doesn't look back. 68 VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL New Orleans is LEOPOLD FROEHLICH's oyster as he samples the city's best bivalves. 90 SEX ON CAMPUS 2009 An intimate look at the secret life of college girls, compiled by STINSON CARTER, plus our College Sex Poll results. 98 THE GOLDEN AGE OF PILLS Can't focus? Want to stay awake for days? Do SCOTT ALEXANDER and ROCKY RAKOVIC have an Rx for you. 108 THE WEIRD WORLD OF GAHAN WILSON Eight quirky cartoons from the master. INTERVIEW 37 WOODY HARRELSON Woody lies back, fires up a joint and discusses sex, marijuana, the man and other heavy stuff with DAVID HOCHMAN. 20Q 88 SHAWNE MERRIMAN Lights Out has been rebuilt—better, stronger, faster, he tells JASON BUHRMESTER. FICTION 84 LIGHT, SWEET CRUDE Oil futures can be a risky business. By CHRISTOPHER FELICIANO ARNOLD PICTORIALS 52 GIRLS OF THE ACC Hot Hokies, sexy Seminoles, divine Blue Devils and more cute East Coast coeds let you into their dorm rooms. 72 PLAYMATE: LINDSEY GAYLE EVANS How she introduced herself to us: "I'm a former Miss Louisiana Teen USA, and I'm tired of being good. Are y'all interested?" We are! 100 LOVE BITES Nude models vamp it up in a fiery, bodily-fluid-swapping (blood) pictorial. It's a fantasy with fangs. FASHION 94 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Whether it's lust, politics- or self-expression through dress, pa'ssior fuels youth. We look at what protesters out on for their bia day. NEWS AND NOTES 11 WORLD OF PLAYBOY In the wedding of the summer, Kendra Wilkinson marries Hank Baskett at PMW; the Shannon twins earn roles in Sofia Coppola's new movie; the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival celebrates one of America's truest art forms at the Hollywood Bowl. 12 HANGIN' WITH HEF Hef takes his girls to catch a Lakers play-off game at the Staples Center, attends the unveiling of the USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex and watches his son Cooper accept his high school diploma. 132 PLAYMATE NEWS Jayde Nicole comes back to TV with the latest season of The Hills; Bebe Buell releases a new single. DEPARTMENTS 3 PLAYBILL 15 DEAR PLAYBOY 19 AFTER HOURS 22 REVIEWS 31 MANTRACK 35 PLAYBOY ADVISOR 82 PARTY JOKES 140 GRAPEVINE THE PLAYBOY FORUM 135 THINK AGAIN Wrap your head around this: STEVEN PINKER argues that we have changed the way humans process thoughts. 136 BIG BOOM THEORY We once feared the bomb. Now BILL MCKIBBEN notes the fuse is even shorter on the environment. PLAYBILL College is where most of us finally get the freedom to figure out who we are. Which makes it fertile ground for our Sex on Campus 2009 feature. Stinson Carter reports from the front lines, while bad-boy photographer Richard Kern's delicious nudes capture the realism of women sorting through their sexual lives. Woody Harrelson, the subject of this month's Playboy Interview, is no stranger to experimentation himself. In fact, he smoked pot throughout his days-long conversation in Maui with David Hochman. Harrelson has madè Hollywood work for him without buying into its hype and hustle—a bit Like Andy Richter, whose recent return to our living rooms on The Tonight Show caps nearly 10 years of wandering the more desolate regions of the entertainment landscape. In Andy Richter Grows Up, Eric Spitznagel hikes the wilderness with him to confront the specter of Ed McMahon, as well as the "strange lizard creatures and creepy old women with huge, tight tits" that seem to haunt Richter. Will the comeback road be as good to Shawne Merriman? After spending the 2008 NFL season injured, the game's most dangerous linebacker is back and ready to bring the hurt. In this month's 20Q Jason Buhrmester talks with Merriman about what happens when you hit someone so hard he has to retire, then later run into him at the Playboy Mansion. To further indulge our love of dangerous athletes, writer Kevin Cook interviewed countless Oakland Raiders players and hangers-on to bring us Bad to the Bone, an oral history of the Hells Angels of football. They answered to no one, much like the pirates that patrol the waters off Somalia's Gulf of Aden. The difference? The Raiders usually won. In Pirates of Somalia, writer Shashank Bengali finds the pirates have more in com-non with Oliver Twist than with Captain rack Sparrow. Also this month: The Golden Age of Pills features illustrations by veteran magazine artist Tin Salamunic. And while drug companies find ways to make us more comfortable, cartoonist Gahan Wilson finds ways to make us less so. With Halloween coming up, his retrospective is appropriate—as is our vampire-tinged Love Bites pictorial with an essay by Leslie Klinger, today's foremost expert on society's fascination with bloodsuckers. If this what vampires look like these days, then we say bring on the nightmares.