Male and Female

> Sex in the patrol car may be more than just a fantasy of policemen's wives in the growing number of cities using women cops on line duty. In Washington, D.C., Officer Peggy A. Jackson, 27, charges that it is practically a rule of the force that "you've got to make love to get a day off or make love to get a good beat." Washington's 4,200-member police department includes 333 women, about half of whom are assigned to patrol duty with men. No formal complaints have been filed, but D.C. Councilwoman Willie Hardy is investigating several verbal charges of sexual harassment. Though the U.S. Attorney's office has dropped the case for lack of evidence, the police department is investigating the alleged rape of a woman cop by a sergeant during a stakeout of an office building. All of which suggests that the life of a female on a big-city force is not quite as simple as that of Angie Dickinson on NBC's Police Woman. In fact, says D.C. Officer Delores Henneghan, 21: "It's like Peyton Place."

> Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky's emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography law, the courts may well agree. Until the courts act, male employees at Steimatzky's Agency will dutifully wield their black-magic markers. Says he: "We wouldn't ask women to do it because it would be tasteless."

> Four years ago, an elderly convicted pimp appeared in a Seattle court for sentencing. Instead of sending him to the slammer, the judge ordered him to contribute $3,000 to begin a scholarship fund for prostitutes who want to go to college. "One of the biggest hassles for a prostitute is getting the money for education," says Jennifer James, an anthropologist at the University of Washington and one of the trustees of the fund. "The only solution seems to be to go back to prostitution or deal with the bureaucracy, and I can see why a prostitute would find it easier to turn a trick than to take on the Department of Vocation." So far, five women have gone to college with the help of the fund.

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