Gallery January 1979

ARTICLES AND FEATURES 31 INTERVIEW: DR. ANTHONY PIETROPINTO The author of a best-selling book on male sexuality shatters some myths about what turns men on and off. 40 THE AMERICAN WOMAN: FROM KINSEY TO NOW By Rhoda Koenig "Baby" has indeed come a long way. Here's how the once-shocking Kinsey Report helped her get there. 50 MISTAKES WOMEN MAKE WITH MEN By Carole Altman How women foul up their love affairs and destroy their own self-respect. 64 A HISTORY OF THE CENTERFOLD: THE FOLD-OUT GIRL By Jerry Bowles The women gracing the pages of the first centerfolds were presented as examples of physical perfection, even if those pictures had to be doctored. Today's mid-magazine maiden is apt to be as real as the girl next door. 70 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN OF 1979 Here's Gallery's little list. 78 THE NEW WOMAN Fiction by J.S. Weill She was young, aggressive, independent, and thought she didn't need a man in her life. He thought she did. 87 PRIVATE LIVES: THAT NIGHT A man tells the almost unbelievable but true tale of a night of sexual cornucopia. 102 ORGASM POWER Humor by Bruce Jacobs The energy source of the future has arrived! PICTORIALS 44 LINDA: THE OTHER BARDOT Photographs by Len de Lessio 54 THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR" Amateur Erotic Photo Contest 69 TODAY'S' WOMAN Cartoon Pictorial 72 TO VICTOR GOES THE SPOILED Photographs by Hans Larsson 81 TO EACH HIS OWN: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE What makes you a leg man? A breast man? An ass man? Find out here. 95 THE BEAUTY GAMBLE: Ms. International Nude Beauty Pageant Photographs by R.K. Alflen 115 TETRA Created by Malcolm McNeill Part IV: The Woman leaves the planet, and her purpose begins to be revealed. DEPARTMENTS 8 FEEDBACK Letters from our readers. 19 PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS By Susan Toepfer 23 GALLERY AT LEISURE Hosting by Sheldon Marks Music by Meridee Merzer Screen by Tom Seligson Books by Donald Newlove 36 SPEAKING OUT: SEX AND THE OLDER WOMAN 38 ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT By Jerry Shields Environmental trouble spot update. 92 INSIDE-OUT Advice by Peter Frishauf and Katharine Rice 120 FACE TO FACE: DR. PAUL EHRLICH Willem Oltmans' discussion with the world-famous biologist.