Sugah August 1995

PICTORIALS 6 PAREE Photos by The POM Agency 20 NOVA Photos by Aja & Associates 32 NINI Photos by Wildflowers 38 REGINE Photos by Falcon Foto 48 KAHNI & SHANEKA Photos by Falcon Foto 58 GEENA Photos by The POM Agency 72 BILL & SHYANE Photos by Falcon Foto FEATURES 14 DEION SANDERS Actor, Athlete, Rapper, Millionaire Article by Jack Nixen "Prime Time," as he's known to his multitude of friends, is truly a "crossover" star. The man is a superb baseball player, an unbeatable defensive back, and an entertainer of no little success. Has all of this gone to Deion's head? Read this insightful profile and judge for yourself. 26 ONE MORE TIME Fiction by Maurice DeWalt What do you do when a relationship starts going wrong? Lurleen could have mashed Waterford up alongside the head, like she usually did when things went wrong, or she could kick him out. But damnit, she loved Waterford. Read how this clever gal decided what to do to save her romance, and have herself some exciting adventures, too DEPARTMENTS 4 WHAT'S HAPPENIN'? A monthly roundup of celebrities in the news 54 VIDEO VIEWS Reviews of the latest black and interracial videos] 66 SUGAR Our favorite comic characteris no fool. FROM THE EDITOR Drugs & Masturbation Political chickenshit at its best! We're referring, of course, to the firing of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders by President Bill Clinton back in December. Clinton took his lumps in the November `94 elections, and one of his first actions afterwards to placate the new right wing bullies was to fire Elders for her outspoken views on the legalization of drugs and teaching students to masturbate as a way to practice safe sex. What a crock! Of course, the masturbation issue was, in reality a non-issue. What Elders said was that students should be encouraged to choose masturbation over other forms of sexual activity. She did not advocate masturbation, or that it should be taught in schools as the glib-but-loosewith-the-facts politicians were quick to misquote her. In reality, she commented that kids did not need to be instructed to masturbate. Enough said. What really got the former Surgeon General fired was her comments on drug legalization. That issue should be studied very seriously. Now we're talking POLITICS. Politics as in MONEY. Think of all the special interests who stand to lose big time if drugs were legalized: everyone involved in growing, producing, transporting, smuggling, packaging, distributing and selling; everyone involved in interdiction (trying to stop the flow), from U.S. Customs to the DEA, the FBI and every state and local police department; everyone who deals in property stolen by junkies to buy their daily fixes; most of the courts and legal profession, and most of the prison system. And how about the medical community and the vast drug treatment system? The mind begins to boggle. Maybe what President Clinton was worried about was that the U.S. economy has become dependent on drugs. Not only a direct economic threat to all the groups listed above if drugs were legalized, but how about the trickle-down effect? For example, all those expensive homes, cars, jewels, etc., bought with the proceeds of drug dollars. Think of it: an addict walking into a drugstore and buying his fix with a prescription at competitive, real prices instead of the inflated prices caused by making it illegal. And what about new addicts? Who's going to hang around schools and neighborhoods trying to get kids hooked if the future supply incentive is gone? It wouldn't surprise us if the biggest Political Action Committee of all was the anti-drug legalization lobby, funded secretly by the drug barons in Columbia. They simply couldn't allow the U.S. to ever legalize drugs because they have the most to lose. Everything. So, farewell Joycelyn Elders, you were just ahead of your time and out of step with the phonies on both sides of the aisle. If previous Surgeons General had warned about the hazards of cigarette smoking during the World War II era, they too would have gone down in flames. The Publisher