Birthdate: April 13, 1955
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California USA

Bust: 36

Waist: 24

Hips: 34

Height: 5′ 6

Weight:118 lbs

Ambitions
To train jumpers (horses).

Turn-Ons
Traveling, keeping on the go.

Turnoffs
When I always get my own way.

My Playmate Fee
Will help me start a business.

Great Performers
James Caan, Steve McQueen, James Taylor, Lauren Hutton

Favorite Author
Hermann Hesse

In My Spare Time
I love to ski, fly, horseback ride, swim or practice ballet.

My Weak Spot
I’m too shy. It keeps people from getting to know me.

The Perfect Meal
Prime rib and champagne.

Interview
Sarah Jayne Moore

Features
“The Great Whale Battle” by Jack Richardson
“America at Speed 55 Be Damned!” by Brock Yates
“World’s Fastest Carnival Ride” by Dan Gerber
“Sex for Your Health” by Edward M. & Jeremy Brecher
“Playboy’s History of Assassination, Part VI — Death Crosses the Color Line” by James McKinley
“And A Picture Tube Shall Lead Them” by John Leonard
“Is There Life After High School?” by Ralph Keyes.

Pictorials
Caution: Women at Work! Models photographed by Richard Fegley.
Debra Peterson (PMOM) photographed by Ken Marcus.
Lillian Muller (PMOY) photographed by Richard Fegley.

Some people like onions. Others don’t. I prefer steak. I hear there’s such a thing as a vegetarian. Weird. I hope I never meet one of them. People love discussing who’s the best, who’s the brightest, who’s the prettiest. And we stick by our choices pretty strongly. Or we’re supposed to stick by our choices in that manner. A man that changes his opinions, however infrequently, is considered whishy-washy, weak, made to react to whimsy. So, we make our choices early on, and we fight hard to stick by them.

Whenever I tell other men that Debra Petersen would probably make my top 10, I am almost always confronted with opposition. Some think that she looks too old. Many hate the enormous amount of, how do you say, foliage about the ether region. Many hate that so many of her pictures display the eagle spread quite religiously. I tend to love all of these faults. It’s one of the reasons why I always glance at the Debra Petersen pictures on a regular basis. I’m addicted to her nature. Or the nature of her pictures.

There are always several women, several Playmates, that define a decade. The way they look, the background setting, the hue, the gloss, the manner, that when you look at that one woman, you’re looking at an entire era. Debra Petersen represents one of those women. The Playmate of the Year, Lillian Muller, who she is coupled with in this issue, is another, which makes the June 1976 issue one of the must-haves for any Playboy historian.

Now rather all of that is true or not is anyone’s guess. But that’s usually how my argument goes. I believe that almost anyone can make the same argument. Someone told me that 1976 was the best year Playboy ever had concerning Playmates. I couldn’t disagree with him. But I couldn’t necessarily agree with him either. How do you make that assessment on some scientific level, where the outcome is always the same, no matter the tools being used to judge, or the perspective. Unfortunately, I don’t think you can.

Instead, all we can ever do is wing it. I wing it all the time. There are some things that I say one day, that I believe and stand by, and hold true to for that 24 hour period, that wouldn’t hold up in the long run, the span of my entire life and judgments. For whatever circumstance, something was important enough, or unimportant enough, that I fought holy for an instance for the acceptance of some idea or belief within the greater group, possibly for sport, or in response to some warped form of personal nature. Who knows.

But I’m sticking by Debra Petersen. She’s one fine Playmate. I couldn’t possibly tell you why she’s one of the greatest. It isn’t that the belief that she’s one of the greatest has dissipated. It’s just that time has passed and the feelings I once exhibited don’t quite exist on the same level as they once did.

Well, on second thought, maybe they have. I can see why I used to get really excited by Debra Petersen. And some of those same feelings still exist. But many exist out of principle alone. And now it has left me. Now I know the thrill is gone.

You know I’m free, free now baby
I’m free from your spell
Oh I’m free, free, free now
I’m free from your spell
And now that it’s all over
All I can do is wish you well

 

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