Dear Playboy Advisor: Questions From Men and Women to the Advice Column of Playboy Magazine (63 page)

All reasonable questions—from fashion, food and drink, stereo and sports cars to dating dilemmas, taste and etiquette—will be personally answered if the writer includes a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The most interesting, pertinent questions will be presented in the column each month. Write The Playboy Advisor, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019, or send e-mail by visiting our website at
playboyadvisor.com
.

Copyright © 2006 by Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

All rights reserved

S
PECIAL THANKS TO
M
ICHAEL
O
STROWSKI AND
L
YNN
S
TROM FOR THEIR ABLE ASSISTANCE, AND TO
J
AMES
R. P
ETERSEN FOR SETTING THE STANDARD.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rowe, Chip.

Dear Playboy advisor : questions from men and women to the advice column of Playboy magazine / Chip Rowe. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN-13: 978-1-58642-130-4

eISBN-10: 1-58642-130-1

1. Sex customs — United States. I. Title.

HQ18.U5R69 2006

306.70973—dc22

2006013064

www.steerforth.com
Alternative Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rowe, Chip.

Dear Playboy advisor : questions from men and women to the advice column of Playboy magazine.

Includes material on men-women relations, affairs, anal sex, cars, cigars, contraception, etiquette, “getting hitched,” kinky sex, “the married life,” masturbation, oral sex, orgasm, the penis, prostitution, pornography, semen, sex toys, “the single life,” and STDs.

1. Man-woman relationships. 2. Advice columns — Excerpts. 3. Questions and answers. 4. Sex instruction. 5. Sex customs. 6. Adultery. 7. Anal sex. 8. Contraception. 9. Etiquette. 10. Married people — Sexuality. 11. Single people — Sexuality. 12. Oral sex. 13. Masturbation. 14. Orgasm. 15. Penis. 16. Pornography. 17. Semen. 18. Sex toys. 19. Adultery. 20. Sexually-transmitted diseases. I. Title: Playboy Advisor. II. Playboy

(Chicago, Ill.).

HQ18.U5R69 2006

306.7—dc22

v1.0

^*1
After this appeared, an anonymous reader responded by tearing out the page, circling the response and writing in bold letters, “You bastard!”
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^*2
In February 1999 the digital voyeur Spacewurm eavesdropped on a random cell phone call in San Francisco and transcribed the conversation for his book
I Listen
. A guy was reading this letter and our response to his girlfriend. After he finished, there was a five-second pause, and then the woman said simply, “Damn.”
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Despite our best efforts here, several inmates wrote to ask why prison officials had torn the Advisor out of their magazines.
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