Playboy 1971 12 Dec

Gala Christmas Issue

Playmate of the Month 
Karen Christy photographed by Pompeo Posar.

Interview 
Roman Polanski by Larry DuBois.

Features 
"New York - A Town Without Foreplay" by Bruce Jay Friedman 
"Can the Real Howard Hughes" by Edwin Fadiman Jr. 
"...Still Stand Up?" by James Phelan 
"Shelley" by Dan Greenburg 
"The Coming of the Psychopath" by Alan Harrington 
"Crazy Kids Cross the Ocean" by Herbert Gold 
"My Last Mugging" by Murray Kempton.

Personal Visions of the Erotic 
Models photographed by Skrebneski, Ben Rose, Will McBride, Francesco Scavullo, Pete Turner, Art Kane, J. Fredrick Smith, Douglas Kirkland and Joel Baldwin.

Vegas Comes Up 007 (Diamonds Are Forever, film) 
Sean Connery, Judy Ritsko, Jill St. John, Lana Wood photographed by Simon Nathan (not all nude).

Sex Stars of 1971 
Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen, Jack Nicholson, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Melvin Van Peebles, Richard Roundtree, Karen Black, Sally Kellerman, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott, Steve McQueen, Carrie Snodgress, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot, Elliot Gould, Robert Redford, Ursula Andress, Elke Sommer, Catherine Deneuve, Elga Andersen, Dominique Sanda, Jacqueline Bisset, Marianne McAndrew, Lainie Kazan, Trish Van Devere, Christina Lindberg, Marie Liljedahl, Edy Williams, Rosella Olson, Marisa Berenson, Jennifer O'Neill, Paula Pritchett, Lauren Hutton, jo Ann harris, barbara Leigh, brenda Scott, Sarah Kennedy, Rosalind Cash, victoria Vetri, Claudia Jennings and Sue Bernard.