8 HOUSECALL
Introduction
10 FORUM
Correspondence
52 FEEDBACK
Opinion
58 CALL ME MADAM
Counsel by Xaviera Hollander
67 VIEW FROM THE TOP
Comment by Emily Prager
68 SCENES
Jay Perry
70 FILMS
Roger Greenspun
71 WORDS
Gay Haubner
73 SOUNDS
Robert Palmer
76 HOSTAGES FOR THE CHASE MANHATTAN
Article L. J. Davis
84 PET OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP
Pictorial by Bob Guccione
94 STOLEN ART
Article by Robert Stephen Spitz
97 PENTHOUSE 1981 DESK CALENDAR
102 THE GOD BIZ
Article by James A. Haught
109 FRENCH KISS
Pet of the Month, Photos by Earl Miller
130 THE SELLING OF AMERICA
Essay by Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
132 THE WORLD'S SIK-EST CHRISTMAS FEATURE
Satire by Oliver Christianson
138 Robert Redford
Interview by Dan Yakir/Jeffrey Wells
142 ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT
Service by Richard Trout
146 PAST LIVES THERAPY
Article by Craig R. Waters
176 SOME LIKE IT HOT
Pictorial by Pat Hill
192 THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE
Fiction by Pat Conroy
195 TENNIS MOTHER
Fiction by Catherine Hiller
199 WHAT IS YOUR SEXUAL IQ?
Quiz by Frank Donegan
204 NIGHTS IN BLACK SATIN
Fashion by Ed Emmerling
212 A CORDIAL INVITATION
Service by Michael VerMeulen
238 THE LOTUS POSITION
Service by Wade Hoyt
240 GROOM AT THE TOP
Service
242 OH! WICKED WANDA
Satire by Frederic Mullally/Ron Embleton