Elite June 1980 Magazine

3 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
7 NOTES & BOLTS
15 SEX RATED
19 MOVIES
23 MUSIC
26 LEONARD NIMOY
Interview by A. Jaffe
Mr. Nimoy reflects his own odyssey
33 FANTASY TAPE
35 SIMONE
Pictorial
Life in the fast lane
44 THE VIVACIOUS VAGINA
by Wilmon Menard
47 MANON
Pictorial
Is the real French kiss?
56 SEX IN SPACE
Article by Don Strachan
59 THE GREAT CANADIAN BEAVER HUNT
A visit to the bedrooms of the nation
65 HOUSEWIFE HOOKERS
75 SEXUAL OPINION
Article
Sado-Masochism
83 OUT TO LUNCH LISA
Pictorial
Is it true that people who live together, eat together?
93 A NOVEL IDEA
Pictorial
A real best-seller

PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
The Million-Dollar Rip-Off
The other day I picked up the newspaper and read that a man prayed to God on Friday that he would win a million dollars in the lottery and on Saturday his ticket was drawn. He won a million dollars.
These little news items can be found in the paper nearly every week and I'm positive it's part of a publicity campaign to get the suckers to buy more lottery tickets.
But don't you realize, folks, that when you buy a lottery ticket you are getting badly ripped off? So badly, in fact, that you'd be better off giving your money to the first person you meet on the street. You have a better chance of being left a fortune in his or her will than you have of winning a lottery.
Consider these facts: Las Vegas gambling casinos offer returns of up to 98 cents for your gaming dollar; horses return 82-83 cents on the dollar; but the average lottery returns only 42 to 49 cents on the dollar. So even if you are a gambling freak, you have more of a chance of winning at a racetrack or in Las Vegas where you can bet on almost anything!
Sure it sounds great — one million tax-free dollars! The dream of a lifetime!
Enough money to say "fuck you" to your boss and that mother-in-law who always said you'd end up in the gutter. But it's a dream, a political fantasy concocted to make you keep buying those tickets to paradise.
Moralists always argue that governments should not make it easy for citizens to gamble because the average man might gamble away the rent or food money, and that argument has a lot of merit. But where are the same moralists when it comes to lottery gambling?
Go to any city and depending upon the local laws, you can't go into a bank, supermarket, milk or cigar store without being urged to invest in some government-sponsored fleece.
It's ironic that our elected leaders condemn casino gambling because they're concerned that underworld influences might take over, yet they ballyhoo lotteries and tell us that they're beneficial to society.
But beneficial to whom? Certainly not you — the average man in the street, because you don't stand a chance.
Lotteries are loaded dice calculated to swindle unsophisticated people.