Hustler Magazine sneak peak: June 2009
04/14/2009
The June 2009 issue of Hustler Magazine is hitting stores now. Take a sneak peek into the magazine and preview this month's articles: The Girl Of Our Dreams: Remembering Bettie Page, King Of The Crüe: Tommy Lee’s Lust For Life, Will President Obama Step Into the Afghan Trap?, Is Our Drinking Water Threatening The American Male?
The Girl Of Our Dreams: Remembering Bettie PageBettie Page, as a work of art, remains ageless. Her trademark bangs framing a nice-but-naughty face; her body – healthy, full and large by today’s model standards. This is the way she said she wanted to be remembered. In the years leading up to her death last year, Page hated to be photographed and only a handful of pictures of the model in her later years are in circulation.
When Page died in December, more than a few men who grew up in the 50’s felt the loss. In the June issue of HUSTLER magazine, columnist and host of “The Alex Bennett Program” on Sirius Satellite Left Alex Bennett writes, “In the 50’s I had no clue who she was. I just kept seeing her pictures in magazines.” He adds, “I never liked blondes. They were too goody-goody. Brunettes, however, were nasty, wanton, slightly mean. They presented an air of mystery.”
Page also came to symbolize a certain brand of playful bondage photography, if there is such a thing.
But Page, Bennett writes, also had “an aura of innocence and fun. She was dangerous yet safe. I’m sure my lifelong love of brunettes came from Bettie.”
King Of The Crüe: Tommy Lee’s Lust For LifeTommy Lee may just be the luckiest man alive. The Mötley Crüe drummer has lived the rock star lifestyle for decades. And he’s still alive and fully functional.
Lee tells the June issue of HUSTLER magazine, “When I wake up in the morning, I’m like: ‘What are we doing today?!’ I still have that little kid thing. I’m not sure what that is. It might be my children’s fault. They keep me young.”
But there’s “young” and there’s “rock star young”. Lee, who along with the other bad boys of Mötley Crüe, has dealt with just about every rock cliché there is from drugs, to burn-out to legions of groupies. And while he hasn’t really slowed down he has wised up a bit.
The madman of the skins has, among other things, gone green. After trying his hand at reality TV (“Tommy Lee Goes to College”), he teamed up with Ludacris for “Battleground Earth: Ludacris vs. Tommy Lee”. “It was an environmental show,” Lee says. “I learned a lot, and we had a great time doing it. Hopefully it helped spread the message.”
He still rocks his drum kit like a maniac. Mötley Crüe still tours. And befitting rock royalty, the band even hosts its own music festival. “It’s pretty epic if you think about where we came from,” he says.
He’s also the lone partier in a band of guys that have cleaned up their acts. “I’m still flying the flag. Woo-hoo,” Lee says. But apparently with age comes a dose of wisdom. “You know when people say, ‘God! What else could go wrong?!’ I say, ‘God! What else could go right?!’”
Will President Obama Step Into the Afghan Trap?Much has been made of the concept of change when it comes to President Obama. A change of direction for the country. A change of attitude toward our allies and enemies. But is this new president and his young administration about to plot a familiar course that has ended in disaster for strong nations throughout history? Will we become another country confounded by Afghanistan?
“Afghanistan is a feudal collection of warrior peoples that has overwhelmed every foreign army that dared enter,” columnist Robert Scheer writes in the June issue of HUSTLER magazine. “And we are no exception.”
The Soviets had their noses bloodied there. So did the British before them. With Iraq under a certain measure of control and focus shifting back to Afghanistan, why should the U.S. expect a different outcome by pouring huge numbers of troops into the region?
Scheer contends we shouldn’t expect a win based on numbers alone. And he suggests we’ve missed the boat there anyway. “The Taliban that gave refuge to the people who attacked us seven years ago have moved over into safe havens in the tribal regions of Pakistan dominated by their fellow Pashtuns.”
And what of Osama bin Laden? Scheer suggests after all this time Al Qaida is likely to maintain key assets everywhere but Afghanistan.
“Better to save your forces for more narrowly focused and intelligent efforts to counter terrorists, particularly careful international police work,” Scheer writes.
Is Our Drinking Water Threatening The American Male?New York City has long been reputed to have the nation’s tastiest water. Pure and delicious. Like nature’s soda, right? Not exactly.
According to the June issue of HUSTLER magazine, when the Empire State’s Health department tested Gotham’s watersheds for a dozen specific substances, the results included the presence of heart medication, ibuprofen, antibiotics, caffeine and the female hormone estrone.
If that snapshot doesn’t whip your head around a study by the Associated Press found that the drinking water of 41 million Americans contains anticonvulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones.
Of great concern to researchers is the effect of endocrine disruptors, substances found in some water that have been shown to impact male and female hormones in animals. While studies on humans have been limited, researchers say the impact on aquatic life is clear.
Hustler reports that in 2003, nearly all male smallmouth bass in Virginia’s Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers dropped sharply in number. And when they returned they were not the same.
“The males slowly returned to the waters, but their testes were actually found to have formed female sex organs inside of them,” according to Ed Merrifield, executive director of Potomac Riverkeeper. He adds that these “intersex” fish were found downstream of a large sewage treatment plant.
Merrifield claims scientists admit that chemicals are creating intersex animals. And despite efforts by pharmaceutical companies to keep the supply clean, many of these chemicals end up in our drinking water at the consumer end.
So does the human male have to worry about a kind of chemical castration from chemical infiltration in our water?
