The Press: Skin Trouble

In square footage of exposed epidermis, the cover of this month's Playboy is hardly remarkable: a couple of bare arms and a single unholstered breast. But those appendages belong not to one comely lady but to two, and their embrace suggests something more than a hello. Inside are ten color pages of female couples in various stages of sapphic bliss. Has Playboy, the bible of macho heterosexuality, gone lesbian?

Not exactly. The magazine has in the past run occasional shots of women fondling each other, and Playboy Publicist Lee Gottlieb says: "The experts...

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