Playgirl # 79, December 1979 Magazine

FEATURES
10 QUIZ: HOW GENEROUS ARE YOU? by Carol Lightwood
A tricky test to discover just how much you give.
16 DIET: TEN TIPS FOR A SLIM HOLIDAY SEASON by Julie Logan
Stay-slim secrets for season's greetings eatings.
46 HOW TO GIVE THE VERY BEST PARTIES by Paul Ciotti
As year-end festivities approach, here's a guide for giving the type of party they'll never forget.
50 SEX IN THE SEVENTIES by Diana Newell
A voyeur's view of the last ten years of the sexual revolution.
58 EROTIC GIFTS: CHRISTMAS PLEASURES FOR YOUR LOVER
This Christmas give him something sensuous.
82 FIRST ANNUAL SEX POLL by Michael Toohey
Tracking the changing sexual trends of one hundred of today's women.
106 WHAT BOTH OF YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL by Jack Jardine
The latest and the greatest methods, with future favorites, too.
INTERVIEW
42 NICK NOLTE by Susan Price-Root
Hollywood's sexiest jock-turned-actor on backseat love, living illegally and his new movie, 'Heart Beat.'
DEPARTMENTS
4 INSIDE PLAYGIRL
7 READERS WRITE
12 PERSONAL ADVICE
15 HEALTH
18 GOSSIP
21 NEW FACES
22 BOOKS
24 FILM
29 TELEVISION
30 MUSIC
33 EROTICA
124 HIS TURN
136 STARSCOPE
WARM BODIES
63 GRAHAME WHITE: DECEMBER'S MAN OF THE MONTH
72 ANOTHER VISIT WITH THE VILLAGE PEOPLE
85 THE MEN OF 1979: OUR PAST TWELVE CENTERFOLDS
117 GUYS NEXT DOOR Rocky Ruiz, Ozona Mayo, Chuck Gilcrest, Tim Lucas, Bob Hood, W. Daniel Hopkins, Ron Stark, James Kreiser, Bob Schick, Roger Ferris, Bill Mehlhaff, Bill Ferson, Frank Piserchio, Richard Brooke, Steven Nicolas, Tom Caylor, and Glenn Lockerby
FICTION
97 A CHRISTMAS CALL by Taylor Caldwell
102 THE MAJA by Anaïs Nin
FASHION & BEAUTY
75 PAM SLADE: PRIVATE EYE by Len Riley & Bud Slocomb
High fashion and chic thrills in a tale of mystery.
ETCETERA
132 GIFTS FOR HIM
Some pleasant presents for lavishing him in luxury.