Playmate of the Month
Martha Thomsen photographed by Arny Freytag.

Interview
Gay Talese by Larry DuBois.

Features
"The Islam Connection" (Wallace D. Muhammad) by Bruce Michael Gans and Walter L. Lowe
"Sex in America: Boston" by Ken Bode
"The Toughest Job in Sports" by Jay Stuller.

The (Sur)Real Miss World
Silvana Suarez (Miss World 1978 and former Miss Argentina) photographed by Pierre Eggermont.

Perfect Attendants
January Whitaker, Charlie Newsom, Victoria Worley, Judith Huff, Linda Lehner, Colleen Rothschild, Tami Klein, Lindsey Remmell, Shellee Fowler-Cone, Kathleen Rowsey, Nancy Nachtigal, Karen Abbott, Katherine Lanyi, Janice Murdock, Julia Floyd, Janice Tomlinson, Paula Macoubrie, Laura Harrison, Leslie Lahman, Patrica Kelly, Christine Gibson, Kim Scolari, Tori Braun and David Cummings.

Terri Knepper (cover) photographed by Arny Freytag.