Playmate of the Month Monica Tidwell photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz. Interview James Dickey by Geoffrey Norman.

Personality "Mason Hoffenberg Gets in a Few Licks" by Sam Merrill.

Features "Goodbye To Darkest Africa" by Richard Rhodes "Playboy's History of Organized Crime -- War in the Underworld" by Richard Hammer.

Sex in Cinema 1973 Alan Bates Lea Massari, Brigitt Bardot, Francis Huster, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Glenda Jackson, George Segal, Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Sophia Loren, Tiffany Bolling, Vincent Martorana, Lynn Lowry, George Shannon, Mary Wornov Sarah Miles, Anne Heywood, Marcello Mastroianni, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Marsha Mason, Pam Grier, Philip Thomas, Freda Payne, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Theresa Graves, Gloria Hendry, Richard Roundtree, Vonetta McGee, Robert Hooks, Paula Kelly, Roger Moore, Marki Bey, William Elliot, Jim Brown, Judy Brown, Michele Placido, Carol White, Veronica Anderson, Cheri "Ginger" Caffaro, Fred Vincent, Linda Lovelace, Georgina Spelvin, Marilyn Chambers, Eric Rohmer, Bernard Verley, Dominique Sanda, Macha Meril, Hiram Keller, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider (almost all nude).

Ursulla Andress photographed by John Derek, Anne Randall (cover) photographed by Mario Casilli.