Playgirl # 123, August 1983

FEATURES
12 PEOPLE: NADINE GORDIMER by Jordan Elgrably
The iconoclast South African writer discusses her protest literature and her views on apartheid.
42 IS IT LOVE? by Cynthia Heimel
Is it a lusty crush or, at long last, The Real Thing?
52 HOW TO MAKE $1,000 A DAY by E. Jean Carroll
Leading porn stars do, and so could you if you don't mind what Mom says.
90 WHAT MAKES A WOMAN GOOD IN BED? by Tad Richards
Scores of men confess the details.
98 PLAYGIRL'S SEX SURVEY by Celeste Fremon Our readers' passionate responses.
INTERVIEW
38 ROD STEWART by Henry Schipper
A provocatively intimate tete-a-tete with one of the world's hottest hip-grinding rockers.
WARM BODIES
47 STEVE BOND
He's captured the hearts of daytime-drama fans recently, but we knew he was a winner back in 1975.
55 MIKE O'GRADY
Mr. August is what California dreaming is all about.
64 THE TENDER TRAP
A special feature for all of you who have dreamt of seducing a tender, young man.
102 THE LAZERS
These sexy soccer stars play hard and score easily.
111 SNAPSHOTS
Meet our reader discoveries: Robbie, Troy and Paul.
FASHION AND BEAUTY
73 T-TERRIFIC by Ann Field
T-shirts with revealing shapes and flirty cutouts.
FICTION
85 KNOCKING OPPORTUNITY by Marilyn Younglove
Wanda needed a good man. Instead she got a good lesson.
DEPARTMENTS
3 INSIDE
4 LETTERS
8 ADVICE by Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D.
18 GOSSIP by Bette Noire
21 MUSIC by Mark Rowland
22 FILM by Molly Haskell
23 BOOKS by David Thomson
26 UPDATE
26 EXERCISE
26 GROOMING by Ann Field
27 DIET by Judie Lewellen
28 HEALTH by Nancy Friedman
30 QUIZ by Sherry Suib Cohen
33 EROTICA
62 STARSCOPE by Elizabeth
120 COMING UP