Publisher's Synopsis
Sometime journalist Leif Ueland has hit rock bottom as a straight single male: not only does he NOT have a girlfriend but he's also a REALLY nice guy who's visibly uncomfortable in the presence of overt "he-mannishness". Combine that with no job, money or decent apartment and the result is acute insecurity. How, he wonders, can he expect to decode women's sexuality if he can't even understand his own?;Then, the opportunity of a lifetime comes along: the world's leading men's magazine needs a Fearless Reporter to travel across America for six months on the Playboy Bus in search of the Playmate of the Millenium. Dozens of cities. Thousands of women, willing to take it all off for cheesecake immortality. One man covering it all: Leif, the anti-Hefner, only son in a family of feminists, who finds himself at the centre of a vortex of erotica, sexual harassment, plastic surgery, stripping and, always, beautiful women. As the journey progresses, Leif struggles to determine what it is to be a heterosexual, single guy. Is it being sensitive to the needs of women like his mother and women friends have taught him? Is it being a man's man, full of machismo and meaningless sex? Or is there some kind of utopian meeting place between two extremes, preserving a liberal, enlightened sensibility while at the same time giving his libido a "ticket to ride"?
