Women More Likely to Sleep with Interns?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Women are more likely than men to have sex with an intern at work, according to a Playboy magazine poll that also found that two-thirds of female respondents had slept with a co-worker.

Among male respondents, half had slept with co-workers, said Playboy, which polled more than 10,000 men and women in an online survey in August.

The results will be published in the Playboy Enterprises Inc. -owned magazine's January issue, which hits newsstands on Monday.

Among the findings:

-- 20 percent of female respondents had slept with an intern; for men, the number was 12 percent.

-- 46 percent of women who had had office sex had slept with their boss, compared with 18 percent among men. Playboy attributed the discrepancy to the fact there were more male bosses in the workplace.

-- for women, the favorite place to have sex in the office was on a desk, while men preferred a couch or a chair. The least popular for both was the mailroom or copy room. The boss' office also ranked relatively low.

-- more than 80 percent of men and women said they had flirted with co-workers.

US Boss Fuller's 12-Month Clause is Good For Her
By Sridhar Pappu, The NY Observer

During Jann Wenner's boozy Nov. 20 Four Seasons tribute to Us Weekly's Bonnie Fuller, editor in chief and über-boss were as inseparable as newlyweds. Mr. Wenner and Ms. Fuller held hands as they made their way through a motley crew of publishing-industry executives-Esquire editor in chief David Granger; GQ publisher Ron Galotti; Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal-who'd come to acknowledge Us Weekly's remarkable rise from the crypt.

But as Ms. Fuller (no longer the disgraced Condé Nastie, but ... a genius! ) and Mr. Wenner (no longer the money-flushing celebrity magazine dabbler, but once again a ... maverick!) make happy-face over their adrenalized paparazzi sheet, there are potential storm clouds on the horizon.

Ms. Fuller's contract is up in March, sources close to the magazine said. One source said that negotiations between Wenner Media and Ms. Fuller for a new contract have not begun, and that may be an ominous sign. Mr. Wenner's known to be a little tight with the spending sometimes, but with his star editor, who reportedly already makes seven figures (others say it's six), getting virtually every drop of the credit for Us Weekly's explosive circulation growth, the price keeps ... going ... up.

One Wenner Media source said that Mr. Wenner has already put himself in a defensive position by not sitting down with Ms. Fuller a while ago. "If Jann were smart about it, he would have locked her up with a multiyear deal three or four months ago," the source said.

Instead, there's no deal, and the Bonnie Fuller Good Press Express chugs along, even as the competition at Time Inc.'s People downplays her growth.

"I'd say on almost one of two sales calls I make, I get asked about Us Weekly," said Rob Gregory, publisher of Rolling Stone, which is another magazine owned by Mr. Wenner, but not edited by Ms. Fuller. "It's thrilling to see how hot she's made the magazine. It benefits us at Rolling Stone. It benefits the image of Wenner Media. It's all good."

Think it isn't all good? Look what they're saying about Ms. Fuller's future over at Condé Nast:

"She could do a hundred things," said an executive at Si Newhouse's publishing arm. "It's hard to think of an editor in chief that's been at so many different magazines and just banging out the success from one magazine to the next.

History revises itself! Wasn't Condé Nast pooh-poohing Ms. Fuller not too long ago and expressing happiness at her ouster from Glamour?

It'd be interesting to get Ms. Fuller's take on all this, but she didn't return Off the Record's call for comment. As for Wenner Media, the official line was: We love Ms. B. and want her to stay. "We are thrilled about the growth of advances in Us," the Wenner Media spokesperson said. "There's no thought of making any changes."

As for Mr. Wenner, he may not have drawn up a new contract, but he has shown Ms. Fuller the love from time to time. Besides the Four Seasons party, there have been tongue-and-cheek advertisements in places like Women's Wear Daily and Advertising Age featuring the two together.

If Ms. Fuller and Mr. Wenner were to part ways, however, there's no doubt she'd be a hotter property than she was the last time she was on the market, and wound up helping Meredith, a Des Moines, Iowa-based magazine company, launch something called Living Room.

However, right now there are not very many options.

"I don't really see any logical magazines for her," one Wenner source said. "She could only go to a big title, and there aren't any big titles to be taken."

The Condé Nast executive said that it also might be useful for Ms. Fuller, something of an itinerant-Cosmopolitan, Glamour-to spend a little more time at Us Weekly. "Wouldn't it be nice if she just stayed for a while and carried out a vision for a period of time?" the executive asked.

But leave it to the gang at Time Inc. to really throw some H20 on Ms. Fuller's heat. One senior-level Time Inc. source was a bit more harsh in assessing the situation.

"What's she's done at Us is idiosyncratic to Us," the executive said. "Wherever she goes, there's a newsstand spike that lasts for a period of time and then dies down. You have to remember that it's always easier to fix newsstand than maintain it.

"She's already been at Condé Nast, she's already been at Hearst," the executive continued, "and Time Inc. would have no interest in her. I don't know if there would be a bidding war for her."

Still, there's no denying the potential intrigue if Ms. Fuller's deal with Mr. Wenner comes down to the wire. As another Condé Nast executive source-who said that Ms. Fuller "is really well suited to what she is doing right now" and of questionable value on the "open market"-concluded: "I'd love to be the one negotiating the contract."