Brittany Barbour, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 30, 2010

This light-eyed cutie closes out this incredible month of August. Brittany Barbour has that very cute, girl-next-door look. I have a feeling that we'll see much more of Ms. Barbour in the very near future.


Photography by Stephen Wayda

Brittany Barbour
Hometown Sherman Oaks, California
Date of Birth January 2, 1987
Height 5'2"
Weight 98 lbs.
Measurements 32C-23-32
"Cooking in lingerie should be a requirement in the kitchen," says Brittany, who would be a welcome sight in our galley. She hopes to open her own restaurant where she'll undoubtedly be a very sexy master chef. Despite her love of great meals, Brittany has a sure-fire way of keeping her ridiculous figure in shape: "Sex is the only exercise I get!"

Erika Mayshawn, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 23, 2010

Erika Mayshawn comes to us as our Cyber Girl for the week. This beauty has been a veteran on the Playboy Girls Network scene and finally has the spotlight on her in the Playboy Cyber Club.


Photography by George Georgiou

Erika Mayshawn
Hometown Detroit, Michigan
Date of Birth May 3, 1983
Height 5'10"
Weight 125 lbs.
Measurements 32DD-26-38
Don't let her pretty face (and body) fool you—Erika has brains! "Most of my life has been about studying and doing homework," she says. All the hours in the library paid off when she earned college dean's list honors and graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Those laurels helped her find a job in the fashion industry, where she works as a merchandiser and stylist. She's even started on plans to open a chain of clothing stores. "I'm not too far off from launching the online portion," she says. It's going to take a lot of hard work." We hope she stocks up on her favorite items: her sexy clothes. "You know, the ones I keep in the top drawer!"

Response to 'Should My Kid Read Playboy Magazine'?

The article from The Orange County Register is written by Marla Jo Fisher, who had recently found that her 13-year-old son and his friends were looking at internet porn. And with that, she was considering to buy him a subscription to Playboy. At first, I thought, why not? I mean, I was interested at that age. I loved classy, beautiful women. But as I thought about it more and read the article. I don't think it's a great idea, but not for the reasons that you might think. Looking at Playboy as a 'replacement' for internet porn isn't the answer. Playboy has a history. Playboy is a brand. Playboy is a culture. 

I became a teenager at about the same time when the internet blew up and just started to change our lives. When the internet entered our home, when I was about 13, I immediately went to the Playboy website, which had just about launched that very same year. I went to the website, not because there were naked girls, well, that was part of the reason, but it was Playboy. Everyone knew that Playboy was the classy magazine, and with all that we can see on the internet these days, it still is classy.

As I have said before in this blog, in my early teenage years, I was curious about Playboy. I heard of my friends taking out the magazine from the library and looking through them. In my late teens, I became a fan. I found the Playboy Mailing List when I was 15, and years later, the Playboy message boards. There I could chat with other Playboy fans as well as Playboy models to discuss everything Playboy. And then, into my twenties, I became a connoisseur. It all led me to create my own blog dedicated to Playboy. As a teen, I didn't only find the beautiful centerfolds, but learned about Playboy's history and how Hugh Hefner started the revolutionary magazine. I also found the Playboy Philosophy. Mr. Hefner and his philosophy, in some way, inspired me to go take the creative path in my life and become a graphic designer. They inspired me to hopefully create my own magazine one day.

In the 1990s, Playboy had tried to take steps to try to keep up with their 'frat-boy' counterparts, like Maxim and FHM, but soon realized that was not what they were all about. Recently, the magazine is trying to keep up with the fast rise of the internet and impending doom of the print industry. Like Marla's son and his friends have found, porn is right at your fingertips. Playboy does have Playboy TV and bought Spice TV, the porn pay-per-view channel. So Playboy has dipped its hand into porn, but to me, Playboy magazine, itself, is not porn. Having met and gotten to know a few Playboy models, it is still about that Girl Next Door today than it was in its golden years of the 1960s and 70s.

Playboy impacted me in a way that I wanted to change the world and shape it in the way that I see fit. I wanted to create a culture and a way of life. So in a way, Playboy magazine, as Reverend Roy Larson said in the Playboy Philosophy, "is a sort of bible which defines his values, shapes his personality..." For me, to replace internet porn with Playboy magazine is a bit sacrilegious. But honestly, Playboy isn't what it once was in its glory days. But it is still around and trying to catch the attention of that horny teenager. That teenager becomes a fan of Playboy, and when he grows up, he'll still be a fan. Maybe even a connoisseur.

Why I Pose...Dana Applegate

Dana Applegate first came to Playboy in 2006 as the Co-ed of the Week for July, 20, representing Texas Tech University. Then she came back to shoot for the Playboy Girls Network as a part of Playboy's Sexy Wives. I'm happy that she let me share her thoughts on why she posed for Playboy!

Dana Applegate
Photography by Chernoff-Urh

Hi Albert! I am surprised Playboy gets many critics on the west coast... we get a lot of that here in Texas!

I posed for Playboy for a couple of reasons. First, I love the female body. It's gorgeous and I don't know why some people are uncomfortable with it. I'm not sure why so many people in this country are so uncomfortable with nudity in general... it's perfectly natural and the Europeans seem to have that figured out! Because I love the female body, I like showing it off 
 I am very comfortable with myself. Second, I am a very sexual person. It makes me feel very sexy and confident to pose nude and have people enjoy my pics. I think when you are self-confident and love yourself, you want to show it off.

Hope this helps!
Dana

Jelena Timofejeva, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 16, 2010

Jelena Timofejeva is this week's Cyber Girl of the Week. This beauty is truly captivating with her amazing eyes pulling you in. Here is the sexy, Ms. Timofejeva.


Photography by Stephen Wayda

Jelena Timofejeva
Hometown Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Date of Birth February 25, 1989
Height 5'9"
Weight 130 lbs.
Measurements 36D-24-36
How does Jelena like to spend a romantic evening? "Dinner on the beach watching the sun set then skinny dipping in the ocean!" Her date shouldn't be surprised when her dog Tootsie makes an appearance. "I can't be without her for more than a couple of hours," Jelena admits. Thanks to her diet of fruits and vegetables, Jelena has the body for skinny dipping during the daylight, too—but don't try to find her at the gym. "I hate working out, it bores me!"

Kaki West, The Ballbreaker



Meet Kaki, the latest
Ballbreaker from The Smoking Jacket, the new 'safe for work' website from Playboy! But, please, no LOL-ing, topping twits! The gorgeous Kaki, Playboy supermodel and actress, gives us her pet peeves about tweeting and telling stories.

Please visit Kaki at her website, kakiwest.com or follow her on twitter, @KakiWest10, but be careful what you tweet, she'll break your balls!

Why I Pose...April Katherine

April was one of the first models that I went to and she was more than happy to help me out. I just recently featured April in last week's Highlights of the Week and as I said then, she is taking the Playboy world by storm! At the beginning of the year, she attended the Orlando Casting Call and was one of twelve featured in the Playboy Cyber Club from that Casting. A few weeks after that, she got a call from Playboy and was on her way for her first photo shoot with Playboy. She has been seen in the Playboy Girls Network and I'm sure it's not the last that we'll see of her!

I have had a lot of fun doing the research to find the answer to the question, why do women choose to pose for Playboy? I went to each and every model that I could find and introduced them to the article that inspired me to start this project, and asked them two questions, why did you choose to pose for Playboy? and why do you think women choose to pose for Playboy? So, here is the response from the beautiful April Katherine in my first 'Why I Pose' feature.

April Katherine


Photography by Lisa Boyle
I personally feel that every woman wants to feel as if they are the most Beautiful woman in the world! When I say this, its not that simple. A woman may know she is Beautiful but not in the eyes of the world. Beauty is MUCH more than just looks...its personality, class, spirit, charm, sexiness and even more than that. Playboy is KNOWN for featuring The Most Beautiful Women in the world. Yes, one may have bigger hips, but her wisdom or personality may Shine above all perfect sized hips! We are all given a body of Art, which should be recognized. If you have to confidence to present yourself infront of the entire world Naked, You arent hidding your fears; you're Pure, Real and Powerful!! And you can be all of those with clothes on but I think it is excentuated more in nakedness..

All the extra things such as, traveling, meeting new people, being treated special, etc those are all great! Those are the rewards of chasing your dreams and conquering them!!!

I hope this helps you understand where I am coming from...Remember every girl is different and may have a different response. However this is what I feel in my heart and hope one day I will be given the honor of becoming Playmate...Not only Playmate,but the first Playmate to share the same name as the month she is featured. Hence- Miss April 2011, April Katherine.

Xoxo April Katherine

Alexandra Rae, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 9, 2010

The second Cyber Girl for the month is Alexandra Rae. From Scottsdale, Arizona, Alexandra exudes sexiness by her hammock.


Photography by Mizuno

Alexandra Rae
Hometown Scottsdale, Arizona
Date of Birth October 9, 1986
Height 5'6"
Weight 112 lbs.
Measurements 34D-25-33
"I'm more than just a pretty face," Alexandra says. "I'm the girl you can play video games with." When she's not kicking ass on XBox Live, she's watching sports and talking about cars. Sounds like our dream girl, eh? But wait, there's more! Alexandra also wants to become a successful business owner. "One day I hope to open up my own sports bar," she says. Let us know when happy hour starts!

The Great Peggy Wilkins

A couple days ago, I wrote a post about whether people still read Playboy anymore. It was influenced by the title of the article, What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy? from the Chicago Reader. I wanted to feature this article itself because it's about a special Playboy fan and afficionado, Peggy Wilkins. I personally don't know Peggy, but have conversed with her a few times back in the day when I was an active member of the PML. It was great to read the history of Peggy and Playboy, from Pamela Sue Martin and the summer of '78 until today. It did make me smile to see the article mention the 50th Anniversary Playboy Roundtable, which I was gratefully a part of. And so, here again is the article profiling Ms. Peggy Wilkins in the Chicago Reader from earlier this year.

What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy?
by Katie Buitrago

By day Peggy Wilkins runs Unix servers at the U. of C. By night she tends her apartment-size collection of Playboys, moderates the Playboy Mailing List, builds Playmate databases, and even sends free advice to Hef.

Teen detective Nancy Drew, of all people, led Peggy Wilkins to Playboy. It was July 1978 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and 13-year-old Peggy was a huge fan of the TV series. That summer the actress who played Nancy, Pamela Sue Martin, appeared on the cover of Playboy. Coyly holding a magnifying glass, she was wearing an artfully draped trench coat and clearly little else. Peggy had to have it. But how?

The shopkeeper peered at her skeptically. "Are you 18?" he demanded.

"No, sorry!" Peggy admitted, and ran away.

She screwed up her courage to ask her mother.

"Not gonna happen."

So Peggy did what any real fan would do in the face of adversity. She went back to the store where the magazine was, made sure the coast was clear, and stole it.

That was the start of a long romance between Wilkins and Playboy, but the courtship had begun three years earlier. Ten-year-old Peggy stumbled across her parents' Book-of-the-Month Club copy of Norman Mailer's Marilyn. The Milton Greene photographs of Marilyn Monroe sparked a fascination with the aesthetic and glamour of 50s-era Hollywood. "The women are almost always smiling," Wilkins explains. "It's not a detached model—there's a connection with the viewer, a sense of fun."

Marilyn kept the self-described "geek" in the library for long hours, reading biographies and poring over microfilms of old magazines, and drove her to take the bus around town buying old books and magazines from library and garage sales. Her schoolmates didn't understand her affinity for these materials—or, for that matter, for old movies, pinup art, and big band music; Wilkins says they were "more interested in popular music and current TV shows." As a result, she entered her teens "totally ostracized."

Marilyn was Playboy's first Playmate—or, as she was called in the December 1953 issue, Sweetheart of the Month. When the 25th-anniversary issue came out in 1979, Marilyn was featured prominently in its 410 pages. Of course, Wilkins had to have that, too. Having no more luck procuring that issue by honest means than the Pamela Sue Martin issue the year before, she resorted again to thievery. When she finally got her hands on it, she was floored. "It just had amazing content," she says. "It spoke to many of my personal interests in terms of pinup style photography. They present their Playmates very much in a similar way that Hollywood presents its glamorous movie stars, especially 40 to 50 years ago."

Wilkins was 14 in January 1980, when she successfully bought a Playboy for the first time, and since then she's bought every issue, new and old. She hid her magazines from her mother in boxes in the closet—and she hid her obsession from just about everyone else she knew too. "The first person I told was my high school boyfriend," she says. "Of course I told him." In 1983 she left Kalamazoo for the University of Chicago, where she took out a subscription. She's been a subscriber ever since.

Nowadays Wilkins has far too many Playboys to hide in a closet. She shares an apartment with her current boyfriend, Dean Armstrong, in Hyde Park, and rents the one-bedroom apartment above them to house her collections. ("Having a Playboy collector as your girlfriend is fantastic," says Armstrong. "There's no downside to it.") The apartment is packed with loose magazines and stacks of boxes, and its walls are lined with posters of Marilyn and famous Playboy covers. The bedroom walls disappear behind leather Playboy storage cases embossed with the famous bowtied bunny, which sit on wooden shelves held up by cinder blocks. These cases hold the best-preserved copies Wilkins could find; the others, stuffed into cardboard boxes, are duplicates. "I worry about these bookshelves sometimes," she admits. "They just came with the apartment. This has got to weigh like 3,000 pounds."

In the living room, positioned so it's the first thing you see when you enter the apartment, is the crown jewel: one of the original 53,991 issues of Playboy Volume 1, Number 1. On the cover, Hugh Hefner's autograph ends by Marilyn's smiling face.

In the upstairs apartment's bedroom, which doubles as a guest room, Wilkins pulls out her copy of Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, 1953-2002, a 35-pound leatherbound paean to the girl next door. Many of the pages have been autographed by the women on them. "Basically, it's classic pinup art," Wilkins says. "They used to spend over $30,000 a month producing this single image, taking hundreds of shots on eight-by-ten film. Literally, many of them are works of art. They could be hanging in a museum." Flipping through, she stops on May 2002, Christi Shake: "Look at the note she's holding! If you look close, it says, 'Dear Mr. Hefner, I would love for you to consider me for a Playmate. Sincerely, Christi Shake.'" April 2003, Carmella Danielle DeCesare: "The sign says no co-eds in rooms after 10 pm. If you look at her watch it's after 10 PM, so the idea is that she's breaking the rules." This attention to detail, to Wilkins's mind, creates the illusion of an intimate romantic relationship with the viewer. "It's just charming, that's all," she says.

Wilkins has attention to detail in her genes: her father had a job in high school operating an electron microscope at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati; later, he became president of Aviation Computer Systems. She joined a computer programming club when she was in junior high—still an oddity in the late 70s. She studied music at the University of Chicago but went to work in the Regenstein Library as soon as she graduated. Today she runs Unix servers for the library.

When the Internet emerged, Wilkins used it to find other people who shared her interest in Playboy. She participated in conversations on alt.mag.playboy on Usenet and was one of the first ten subscribers to the Playboy Mailing List, started in 1994 at the University of Michigan. Now she moderates it.

Through the mailing list—which its members call the PML for short—she met Mark Tomlonson, who, oddly enough, was also from Kalamazoo. Tomlonson began reviewing centerfolds on the list in an "attempt to recall the impact certain outstanding centerfolds had had on me when I first saw them," he explains in an e-mail. Eventually he took on all of them, churning out a 200-word review on each Playmate's birthday over the course of 18 months: "In my personal life, several things were taking a turn for the worse. . . ." he writes. The reviews "provided structure in my life at a time when the old structures seemed shaky."

Wilkins gave Tomlonson's reviews a larger audience by linking to them on a Web site she created on her computer at work, a "memory aid" of all the knowledge she'd accumulated about the Playmates—and then some. The searchable database (now at wekinglypigs.com) stores their names, the months they appeared in the magazine, their birthdates and birthplaces, and who photographed them, plus their height, weight, and astonishing measurements. She also created databases for the Playboy special editions—photo-only issues of Playboy models—and the Playboy Cyber Club Daily Doubles, new photos of Playboy models available only to paying subscribers of Playboy.com. "I used to have it all memorized," she says. "Not to that degree of detail, obviously—but I was constantly wondering, has so-and-so model been featured in the Daily Double? It got to be too much to handle."

The site was featured in Wired and on MSNBC.com, both of which sent it so much traffic that the U. of C. machine she was hosting it on slowed to a crawl. Wilkins's online devotion to Playboy also captured the attention of the man at the top: Hugh Hefner. The company's new-media division in Chicago found the PML in the mid-90s and began to follow it. Wilkins says Mary O'Connor, Hefner's longtime personal secretary, would print out posts she thought would interest him. "I think we have a lot of common interests," Wilkins gushes. "We're both big movie fans. I talked about how I got interested in Playboy and how I came to collect it, I talked about the times I met Jane Russell and Alice Faye. He became quite familiar with me through my writing."

In 1997, Wilkins and her PML cohort learned about GlamourCon, a yearly convention that celebrates pinups and commands appearances by past and present Playmates. Wilkins couldn't afford to make the trip to Los Angeles, so PML member Dan Stiffler organized a collection to send her. Hefner heard about it and invited both Wilkins and Stiffler to visit the Playboy Mansion. Wilkins, normally reserved and bookish, lights up when she recalls the weekend. "It was really cool. He led the tour himself, which they told us is very rare," she remembers. "Oh, it was really cool. We had dinner and went to one of his movie nights, where we saw Liar Liar. It was his birthday and we saw his wife light the candles on his cake and everything." Since then she's visited the Mansion twice more and has run into Hefner at Playboy events. "I've written to him several times and he's always written me back," Wilkins says. "He's just one of the nicest, most generous people I've ever met. A great human being, basically."

But Wilkins's fondness for Hef can't overcome her distaste for the direction Playboy has taken in recent years. Her beloved centerfold, photographed on large-format film for decades, has changed to medium format and then digital photography over the past decade. Wilkins seethes when she looks at the first digital centerfold (March 2006, Monica Leigh). "Look at this!" she cries. "It's grainy. Her skin tone is all off. It's just a technically bad picture."

About a decade ago the PML began rumbling with discontent over a perceived new emphasis at Playboy on celebrity over the Girl Next Door. When it was young, Playboy interviewed celebrities—sometimes at enormous length—but it didn't depend on their faces to sell the magazine. Hefner preferred to put Playmates on the cover, and though Marilyn Monroe launched it, during Playboy's first 25 years it appeared with a celebrity cover only seven times. (The numbers are all in Wilkins's database.) But eventually Playboy joined the crowd. It's published at least seven celebrity covers, and usually more, every year since 1997.

Also troubling the PML were the rapidly diminishing word counts of the articles. Around the time of Playboy's 50th anniversary Wilkins saw the media referring to it as "your grandfather's magazine" and dismissing it as a "dinosaur." Saddest of all, she saw Hefner in interviews "quoting some of those things, and it became clear to me that he actually kind of believed that, that the world had changed, that people don't want to read as much anymore."

Wilkins refused to believe that the Playboy she'd grown up with was a spent cultural force. "I'm sorry," she says indignantly, "but Playboy is not irrelevant."

She set out to persuade Hefner. In 2002 she convened the 50th Anniversary Playboy Roundtable, an e-colloquium "bringing together dedicated Playboy readers and contributors to discuss in detail Playboy's past, present, and future, using the past and present as a springboard to the future," according to its mission statement. Hot topics included covers (no longer as artistic and no longer a reliable tribute to a Playmate, lamented roundtable contributors), Playmates (when even they were displaced on the cover by celebrities a line was crossed), and Playboy's general drift toward Maxim. This drift didn't simply take the form of shorter, more superficial articles. In the fall of 2002 Playboy hired Maxim's executive editor, James Kaminsky, as its editorial director. Because Kaminsky was in New York and wanted to stay there, the magazine pulled up stakes in Chicago and moved east.

The e-colloquium continued on the PML for months. When it finally settled down, Wilkins printed it all out, went over the reams of pages with a highlighter, and wrote index cards stressing the most important points. In 2004 she bound everything together and sent it off to Hef. "It was a very happy day of my life," she laughs.

Did it make any difference? "It may have been coincidence, but within two weeks of me sending the report he replaced the editorial director," she says proudly. Since then, she says, there have been changes for the better, though "quite subtle" ones, with somewhat less emphasis on star power and less "hitting you in the face with a page of nothing but graphics." Last year the magazine moved back to Chicago. (Maxim still casts a shadow: for the past year the editorial director and then "chief content officer" of Playboy's print and online versions has been Jimmy Jellinek, another former Maxim editor.)

Nothing about Playboy says Playboy more than its centerfolds, which are pornographic in some eyes and simply archaic in others. When they went digital Wilkins almost canceled her subscription. "Fortunately," she says, "they got a higher resolution camera and I'm still hanging on. It's become acceptable, but it's still not as good."

The current Playboy, the January/February double issue, offers two Playmates, and Wilkins looks them over with a connoisseur's eye. She observes that January's Playmate is over 30—"which I love"—and "there's the sense of a romantic relationship. They're in Paris, and you can see a bowtie hanging on a chair and a suit in the background." Miss January is "a real beauty"—as is Miss February, both of them "beyond reproach." But the centerfolds themselves are merely "OK images," she says. "If this were the first Playboy I'd ever seen I wouldn't be that impressed." She prefers the "stunning" photos of the Playmates that can be seen only by subscribers online.

Hugh Hefner turns 84 this year, and Wilkins is sure now that she'll stay a Playboy subscriber as long as he's around. But once he's gone, "anything could happen," she says. Her beloved centerfolds might not survive; but it's more likely, she believes, that the entire magazine will disappear, "just because it's been so intimately tied up with him, and also because print magazines are in a steady decline."

She'd miss the photography most of all: "To me, the mere fact of nudity—what's degrading about that, especially when it's presented artfully, beautifully? If I were photogenic enough I'd have been a Playmate in two seconds."

What to Watch For



It was a busy weekend for Playboy. On Saturday, was the very popular Mid-Summer Night's Dream party at the Playboy Mansion. But for those not so lucky and/or 'famous' enough, the premiere of the new season of The Girl Next Door on E! debuted on Sunday night. This season it features the girls of the Bunny House. Personally, I love the idea. My favorite episodes of GND were when the girls hung out with the other Playmates at the Bunny House.

The Bunny House, which is the house right across from the Playboy Mansion where Playmates stay, stars Hope Dworaczyk, Jayde Nicole, Jennifer Pershing, Kayla Collins, Anna Berglund, Cristal Camden, Crystal McCahill, Jaime Edmondson, Kimberly Phillips, Claire Sinclair, and of course, Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner.

Highlights of the Week

The Playboy Cyber Club is filled with beautiful women. And this week was no different, but I had to feature an exceptionally beautiful group of women. I found three of my favorites back-to-back-to-back!

The first is Cyber Girl Xtra pictorial of Summer Lena. I've gotten to know Summer a little bit and she's just as sweet as she is beautiful. She was a Cyber Girl of the Week for August 10, 2009 and part of a loaded month of beautiful girls. It's great to see her again with Playboy. 

Photography by Josh Ryan

Summer Lena
Hometown Las Vegas, Nevada
Date of Birth March 27, 1989
Height 5'6"
Weight 120 lbs.
Measurements 34C-26-36

The next day came Jamie Bradford. The August Cyber Girl of the Month was the Cyber Girl of the Week for April 5th of this year. I must say that Jamie is one of the most naturally beautiful women that I've ever seen! A big congrats to Jamie!


Photography by Lisa Boyle

Jamie Bradford
Hometown Tempe, Arizona
Date of Birth July 13, 1989
Height 5'3"
Weight 120 lbs.
Measurements 34D-26-36

And finally, Saturday brought us a special Wet Hot Summer pictorial that feature a lady who is taking the Playboy world by storm! One week, April Katherine is at a Casting Call, and the next week, she's in Miami doing a photo shoot for Playboy! I know we will be seeing much, much more of her in Playboy soon!


Photography by Lisa Boyle

What Sort of Man (Still) Reads Playboy?

I recently found an article titled, What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy?, about a Playboy connoisseur, Peggy Wilkins. (This is a great article that I will definitely feature in the near, near future.) Anyway, that title got me thinking, do women, and men for that matter, still read Playboy?

I guess for me, it goes a little bit deeper, being a graphic designer and a big fan of the print industry. With technology taking fast flight, we have seen newspapers and quite a number of magazines take a hit. People have gone to their computers and even their smart phones to get their news and information, to read articles and to find their favorite Playboy models. Even me, a great lover of print, has been seduced by my iPhone and have strayed from my beloved magazines. Not only that, but being a Playboy fan, I had bought every issues since 1999 until I missed buying a few issues this year. I wonder if I am just content with going to the internet and being a member of the Playboy Cyber Club and the message boards. The Cyber Club not only has the Playmates but even more models and get to converse with them through the message boards. I feel I am content with reading their tweets and blogs, and getting that behind-the-scenes scoop.




But when I bought the recent Auguest issue and seeing the old-school influence with Mad Men's Crista Flanagan on the cover, that love of the print and that love of having the magazine in my hand came back. Back in the day, Playboy was filled with great articles, interviews and fiction. Although the magazine's content isn't as great as it once was, it goes on strong because of the brand. The Playboy brand is still relevant today. Of course, we won't know if the magazine will still be a part of the brand in the future, but I do hope it will be.

Amber Kyler, Cyber Girl of the Week, August 2, 2010

This week's first Cyber Girl for August is the lovely Amber Kyler. From central California, Fresno, Amber has that sweet, fresh look to her. She is incredibly gorgeous. From the Playboy Cyber Club...

http://cyber.playboy.com; Photography by Stephen Wayda

Amber Kyler
Hometown Fresno, California
Date of Birth 
December 3, 1987
Height 
5'7"
Weight 
125 lbs.
Measurements 
32DD-26-32
"Heaven" is how Amber describes one of her favorite pastimes: hanging out at the beach drinking wine. Those fortunate enough to accompany her on a sandy excursion should bring plenty of confidence, sports knowledge and perhaps some Mozart. "I know it's weird but I like classical music," Amber says. "I have fun no matter what I'm doing. I always know how to bring a smile to someone's face."
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