Playboy February 2006

COVER STORY
After becoming the first winner on America's Next Top Model, the uninhibited Adrianne Curry up and stole Christopher Knight's heart on The Surreal Life. Now she gets loose-lipped about her reality show My Fair Brady and her spinout with super-model Tyra Banks. Senior Contributing Photographer Stephen Wayda serves Curry extra spicy. Our Rabbit goes for the gold.

FEATURES
48 THE TAKING OF SEX.COM
Sex.com was perhaps the most valuable address on the web. See how the site became a gold mine during the dot-corn boom, then watch as the party implodes in a swirl of swinging, speed, spending and, ultimately, rancorous litigation between two men fighting to control it. BY MICHAEL GROSS
64 THE BIG SHOW
A jaundiced journey through the freaky world of 21st century bodybuilding, in which today's champions are so pumped up they make Arnold Schwarzenegger look like your mom. BY CHARLES M. YOUNG
68 THE NO-BULLSHIT CAUCUS
Does everything out of Washington have to come laden with evasions, qualifications, special pleadings and out-and-out untruths? No. A handful of our politicians—John McCain, Dianne Feinstein, Barney Frank and others—deal in straight talk with a minimum of manipulation. BY JEFF GREENFIELD
88 DIARY OF MY HEALTH
The author of The Pugilist at Rest leaves no prescription unfilled as he uproariously details his manifold ailments and pharmacological reliefs. BY THOM JONES
94 LOVE IS A MUCH REWRITTEN THING
Even the world's greatest love poets had to begin with first drafts. We've collected some of the false starts. BY JOSH ROBERTSON
106 OYSTER CULT
Serving the world's most celebrated aphrodisiac at a social gathering makes a more sensuous statement than passing out edible underpants. We share a few pearls of wisdom about preparing these sumptuous bivalves. BY A.J. BAIME

FICTION
60 AN EXCITING NEW CAREER IN MEDICINE
After her sister's tragic death, a dexterous woman becomes a health professional specializing in hand jobs, now said to cure many ailments. Soon she finds there's more to healing than lube and Kleenex. BY MICHELLE RICHMOND

THE PLAYBOY FORUM
37 OUR PILGRIM FANATICS
Attitudes about sex, women and the Bible that were held by the religious fundamentalists who founded our country echo across the centuries as zealots seek to turn back history's clock. BY SIMON WORRALL

20Q
104 HUGH LAURIE
He plays a sardonic doctor with a prickly bedside manner on House. Now the accomplished English actor dissects British colloquialisms, his status as the thinking woman's sex symbol and the Zen of boxing. BY DAVID RENSIN

INTERVIEW
43 AL FRANKEN
The man who invented Stuart Smalley has turned into one of the country's strongest liberal voices, becoming the public face of Air America Radio en route. We ask the Saturday Night Live veteran about how his self-proclaimed Al Franken Millennium is going, what motivated him to write Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and who pisses him off the most. BY WARREN KALBACKER

PICTORIALS
52 KISSED BY THE TUSCAN SUN
Explore the lush hills and fertile valleys of Tuscany while becoming acquainted with these picturesque belle donne.
74 PLAYMATE: CASSANDRA LYNN Liberated of her clothing, the beauty nicknamed Butterfly can spread her wings and fly to new heights.
110 A TASTE OF CURRY America's next top model Adrianne Curry celebrates her surreal life with some provocative and deliciously un-Brady-like poses.

NOTES AND NEWS
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Nicollette Sheridan and other celebrities go ape at the Mansion's 11th Annual Safari Brunch.
12 THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR
Hef and girlfriends Bridget, Kendra and Holly celebrate the success of their hit E! TV series.
93 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: CARA WAKELIN
Miss November 1999 discusses what can go wrong while having sex in the backyard.
147 PLAYMATE NEWS
Lauren Anderson dons a tasty lettuce bikini and serves veggie hot dogs on Capitol Hill for animal rights; Jennifer Walcott gets the key to the city of Las Vegas.

DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 AFTER HOURS
31 MANTRACK
35 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
86 PARTY JOKES
123 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
151 ON THE SCENE
152 GRAPEVINE
154 POTPOURRI

FASHION
96 TEE IT UP
Get up to par with the latest golf clothes. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS
102 TOP BOXERS
Let her slip into something more comfortable, like a pair of your boxer shorts. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS

REVIEWS
25 MOVIES
James Franco is a fighting-mad midshipman in Annapolis; Albert Brooks is Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
26 DVDS
The Aristocrats is no longer an inside joke; out-of-print DVDs that can fetch up to $1,000 each.
27 GAMES
Gun is the best Western game ever; with The Matrix: Path of Neo, the Wachowski brothers redeem themselves.
28 MUSIC
Yellowcard ventures beyond teen angst on its new album; catch the new wave of guitar rock.
29 BOOKS
The Female of the Species author Joyce Carol Oates on the art of violence; Hokum's black humor.