aui Taylor honors FHM with yet another explosive appearance… something she says could very well be her last ever sexy pictorial!

On that fateful day of July 8, the country teetered on the brink of anarchy as scores of people took to the streets of Makati in what everyone thought would be the first stage of a final face-off with a President they wanted out of Malacañang.

The unrest was set off by a public apology aired on national television from the Head of State herself, asking that she be forgiven for a simple lapse of judgment in the previous Presidential elections. That faux pas was a phone call she had made to an election official in the heat of the balloting. Her tough luck was it was wiretapped; worse, that the conversation appeared that she was conspiring with the ballot boy to cheat; and the most horrible: The wiretap was set loose to the media, then fed to the public, which had them then regurgitating bile on the streets.

On that day it seemed very much like the end of a Republic. And truth to tell, on that day too it seemed we at FHM were the only ones who could save it.

If only we had found a way to extend an invitation to the restless mob out fomenting a revolution, it would have clinched it. There was no way they could have refused. We would have told them: “Come on, stop the empty rhetoric. Why don't you all lay down your placards and scoot over to this house we're borrowing and take a look at Maui Taylor dipping at the pool with no clothes on? We're taking daring pictures of her now and she says this just might be her last posing in the buff. It's a beautiful day, you're out there picking a fight, we are here popping our eyes out of their sockets adoring Maui . Can't we all just get along?”

Let us just say you look fresher now than we saw you last at the FHM coop…

Why, thank you! And how do I look now, do I have that just-had-sex aura? (laughs).

Has being a sex goddesses gotten into your head, even just a bit?

I never saw myself as the Maui Taylor although a lot of people would remind that, “No, but you are Maui Taylor.” I still have dreams and I want more achievements like an acting award, then maybe that's the time I can call myself the Maui Taylor.

We'd like you to comment on some bits we overheard you telling the crew around here. First: You don't like bathing in cold water.

Ha ha ha! Ever since I was a kid I've hated it. I just don't like it, even in the summer. When I'm in Boracay, di rin ako palagi bumababa sa beach, especially early in the morning.

Second: On a trip to Melbourne , Australia , you were refused entry at a bar because they thought you were a minor.

No, it was actually a casino and I wanted to get in to have my money changed, not to gamble. The guy at the door refused to let me in even if I had already given him a couple of IDs!

Third: You're a gadget girl. What do you have?

Well, I have the 60-gig iPod with iPhoto, a Powerbook, a couple of soundsticks. I have some of the latest cameras---E0S, Advantix, a Polaroid. A seven-megapixel digital. On my iPod I was already up to 4,000-plus songs but one time I accidentally pressed the manual update menu and lost everything. I never read the manuals of these toys, I just play around and discover stuff.

Word also got around that you're a heavy drinker, would you care to sober up on this?

I really wouldn't call myself that because I have to cut down on my alcohol consumption after I was confined at the hospital recently for a viral infection. That was when the doctors told me I had some sort of heart problem. I haven't really gone back for further checkups or for an angiogram so I don't really know what it is. I was just told that there was this weird sound on my heart's left valve. Plus I have these palpitations…

Can't get excited too much, then?

Hindi ako puwedeng ma-excite masyado, pinagbawalan akong uminom, magyosi. I can't take anything with too much caffeine—coffee, energy drinks, and stuff. Well, I could, but not too much.

No drink, no smoke should be doable, but no excitement?

To tell you honestly, I can't live without alcohol, but I've been trying these past few months…

What do you drink?

Johnny Walker Black Label—scotch on the rocks. If you know how to drink scotch then you really know how to drink. I keep a bottle of scotch in my room. Either that or I take the Jager bomb—it's a shot of Jagermeister with Red Bull, drunk straight.

Going back to the excitement, we meant the sexual kind.

Ha ha, now I'm getting excited! You know, I don't really control myself in bed because when you're there you just want to rip each other's clothes off.

But conking out permanently halfway through the deed can't be good.

Ha ha ha! No, of course not. But I don't think that would happen to me (pause to think)… no, I don't think so.

If a new breakthrough in medical technology could make you grow taller would you volunteer as a guinea pig?

Of if there was such a thing I would really go for that, I swear! I'd want to shoot up to 5'8”. Then I can be a model, which is the dream for me. Or a VJ.

Ever tried taking growth balls or some such medicine?

Ha ha ha! Can you imagine I'd actually tried taking Cherifer? There was this one incident—I swear it was so funny—at a Mercury Drug branch in Glorietta. I went up to the counter and asked casually, “How much yung Cherifer nyo?” They guy at the counter gave this look, and I knew what he meant, so I made up this stupid excuse, “Uy manong sobra ka naman, I have nephews no, hindi ako ang magte-take nyan. Wala na akong pag-asang tumangkad no!” Pero hindi niya alam, sa akin talaga yun.

But you're not desperate to grow, are you?

No, I'm not. The thing with petite girls like me is that we don't exactly get old. I mean, we maintain that baby look.

That's it exactly. You have that look the fetishists would love.

(Laughs) I have gotten a lot of nice remarks about my feet, and they always say I have great dimples. Also, I had braces on before because I wanted to fix my two front teeth, which sort of had that rabbit look. I had them removed so my teeth could go back to their original position because I realized some guys actually love that look, and it had been my trademark to begin with.

And in bed, we bet these are the same guys who'd get a kick carrying you around the room on piggyback, doing all that acrobat's thing…

Ha ha ha! I know some guys to get off on carrying their women around the bedroom, but I'm not telling you the moves I do in the bedroom! Let me just say this: I'm a steady girl and I don't just sleep with anyone I don't have feelings for. I'm not that confident in bed, too, if I were to rate myself. I get off, yes. I've been told nga that I have this tirik-mata look when I do it.

What sets you in the mood for the deed?

Well, I don't like it rough. I want it slow and sensational. Licking is sexy. Cream is sexy. Just an ice cube sliding down my body is good.

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