Arnolds Libido

We all know what happens when you administer exogenous testosterone into your body. Some people are insatiably from there early puberty, these are mostly the people with a (very) high endogenous testosterone level. When these people are famous they are likely to hit front-page articles. Most of us remember one of those celebrities. And one of those guys is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2011 it was all over the news that Mildred Patricia Baena, Arnold Schwarzenegger's mistress, and mother of his child, was his former house keeper. In the same year Gigi Goyette disclosed she was also a mistress from Arnold, starting when she was 16.

And then of course Barbara Outland Baker his first US girl wrote a book about him and gave interviews, she dated Arnold from 1969-1975 when he had just moved to California to make himself a superstar bodybuilder. About the housekeeper she said: “I don’t think Mildred was the only one and she was an unusual choice as well. I think when it’s possible for him to have sex he will have it.” And:

“I’m not saying there aren’t still a line of a million women lining up to have sex with him but I think he’s past the time when he can have a real relationship. No one will trust him.”

“This is his rock bottom, maybe he will find his true self now but I don’t have a lot of confidence. I care for him and wish him the best.”

At 15, Arnold was disenchanted by soccer and describes a sense of "power" when looking at bodybuilders, a vision that inspired him to begin weight training. By all accounts he took on this task of self- improvement with zeal and consistency, winning awards as "Junior Mister Europe" (which required he go AWOL from his army post to compete) and the non-junior "Mr. Europe." These awards started coming into his resume while he was still in his teens.

It was during this formative period that Schwarzenegger began to discover the joys of sex. As he recounts in his 1983 autobiography Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, the teenager's love-'em-and-leave-'em attitude received the enthusiastic approval of his father (although not his mother):

I used to feel that women were here for one reason. Sex was simply another kind of exercise, another body function. I was convinced a girl and I couldn't communicate on equal footing because she wouldn't understand what I was doing. I didn't have time to take one girl out regularly and go through a normal high-school romance with all its phone calls and notes and squabbles. That took too much time. I needed to be in the gym. For me it was a simple matter of picking them up at the lake, and then never seeing them again.

Eventually there was a split between my parents about me. My mother obviously knew what was going on with me and the girls my friends lined up. She never came out and said anything directly, but she let me know she was concerned. Things were different between me and my father. He assumed that when I was eighteen, I would just go into the Army and they would straighten me out. He accepted some of the things my mother condemned. He felt it was perfectly all right to make out with all the girls I could. In fact, he was proud I was dating the fast girls. He bragged about them to his friends. "Jesus Christ, you should see some of the women my son's coming up with." He was showing off, of course. But still, our whole relationship had changed because I'd established myself by winning a few trophies and now had some girls. He was particularly excited about the girls. And he liked the idea that I didn't get involved. "That's right, Arnold," he'd say, as though he'd had endless experience, "never be fooled by them." That continued to be an avenue of communication between us for a couple of years. In fact, the few nights I took girls home when I was on leave from the Army, my father was always very pleasant and would bring out a bottle of wine and a couple of glasses.

Long before he was the Terminator or the Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was just a badly-dressed boy looking for a home in London. He found one with Wag and Dianne Bennett, a couple he now calls his 'British parents'

In 1966, a young, badly dressed, gap-toothed man arrived in London for the first time. As he says himself, “I was like this little puppy, you know, venturing out into the world. When I first came to London, I'd never even been on a plane before.”

Aged 19, just out of the Austrian army after doing his national service, Arnold Schwarzenegger had come to London to compete in the Mr Universe competition. He moved to America in 1968, to California where he had been offered a contract by Joe Weider who, along with his brother Ben, effectively controlled American bodybuilding.

Bodybuilding in those years had a bad reputation. Too many people associated bodybuilding with the gay community. Joe Weider, who was able to create a myth via his many magazines, decided to make Arnold the walking and talking feminine dream. A real role-model for insecure boys reading his magazines. Like he had previous done with bodybuilders like Dave Draper (picture). He published pictures of bodybuilders with dune buggies and surfboards and many, many beautiful models, life like everyone would want it. Arnold learned how to speak, dress and had stylist and a different haircut. And Arnold started to live Joe’s myth.

In The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger Laurence Leamer wrote:

“Gays are a crucial component of bodybuilding.” “The economic connection between bodybuilders and gays is clear,” writes Alan M Klein in Little Big Men, a study of the elite California bodybuilding world in the eighties. “Segments of the gay community have been bankrolling aspiring bodybuilders in the West for decades, either through their role as procurers of sexual services or through their position as entrepreneurs, contest judges, gym owners, sellers of steroids and the like.”

“The sport struggled to put down the idea that bodybuilding gyms were often little more than gay camps. Youthful bodybuilders were often insecure about their sexual identity. They were hardly likely to have swamped the gyms if they thought they were likely to be accosted there by gay bodybuilders. The supramasculinity personified by Arnold in Weider’s magazines and the chronicles of his wild sexual adventures were offered as an antidote, driving the gay world of bodybuilding farther into the closet.”

“The idea was to have sex with a woman and then move on.” “His [Arnold's] sex appeal is so terrific he never has to date the same girl twice,” noted Muscle Builder/Power.

The magazines chronicled behavior that bordered on the misogynistic but was celebrated as the very model of how a man should act. In less than a year, using Weider techniques, Arnold had supposedly transformed himself not only physically but sexually. He had become Weider’s leading expert on male sexuality with insights such as “the laboring class still produce the most babies and are by all accounts the grooviest, sex-wise!” His smiling photo graced an article celebrating the virtues of masturbation, which stated that “masturbation is nature’s way of keeping millions of healthy, virile young men from becoming savage rapists.”

“He’s (Arnold’s) turned on like he never was before, “the photographer Zeller told the readers of Mr.America, “and when we go out to the beach the girls flock over to him from Handsome Wo-ever-it-was, like bees to flowers, leaving their dates biting their nails and cursing the very word “muscles.” He’s so muscular and so streamlined and so sexy. When he goes into a malt shop or restaurant the girls take one look, then lay odds on who’s gonna swing with him next (generally all of them win… it takes a little time but Arnold doesn’t play favorites!)”

Franco was as much a swordsman, and Arnold and he sharing common experiences. “Sometimes people would bring these girls up to the apartment, “said Tyler. “And they ( Arnold and Franco) would be asleep, and they’d open the door and throw these girls in. They wouldn’t know who they were. And the girls would just jump on top of them.”

Picture: In August 1977 issue of OUI Arnold in his prime, gave an honest interview. Talking about the size of his penis and Marihuana and other controversial subjects. This interview discloses how Arnold thought in those days. He was even thinking of becoming a Governor otherwise he would have done what most politicians do ..lie !!

I posted the complete interview on the end of this blogpost.

A GOOOD Colleague

Tom Arnold has been dishing about the sex life of his True Lies co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who reportedly has sex five times a day. The 54-year-old comedian said Schwarzenegger , has a harem of women who visit him daily to fill his needs, according to an article in the UK’s Daily Star.

Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver separated in May 2011 after 25 years of marriage when it was revealed that he had fathered a teenage son with the family maid. The action star since the split has found a string of women to keep him fulfilled, according friend Tom.

‘Arnie has a tremendous sex drive. There are women who come over. He is not lonely. He has female companions,’ Tom told the Daily Star. He does have a lot of needs and he believes it is all part of the fitness. Five times a day, as he says. It is a good number,’ Tom said.

‘A lot of women won’t do that, but he is in great shape,’ he added. Tom also was quoted in the article claiming that Schwarzenegger surrounds himself with semi-naked muscle men who live at the actor’s Los Angeles home. The muscle men regularly work out on Schwarzenegger’s front lawn and show off their muscles to visitors,’ Tom said. There are guys in their underwear. It’s a weird scene.’ ‘When you pull up in your car they all scamper out. He is trying to live life like a king,’ Tom added.

Brigitte Nielsen

The book, titled: ‘Total Recall: My Unbelievable True Life Story,’ already the most talked about celebrity autobiography in years, goes into detail how the 65 year old actor, former California governor had a sexual tryst with Danish model/actress Brigitte Nielsen whilst he was by then living with his soon to be wife Maria Shriver.

Appropriately enough, Schwarzenegger is a combination of high energy and a style best described as laconic no-bullshit. After several weeks on the road with him, free-lance writer Peter Manso reports: "Initially I figured it would take a while to adjust to the sheer physical presence of the guy, but that wasn't so. He doesn't appear particularly monstrous, although he's definitely not the kind of fellow I'd like to pick a fight with. First and foremost, Schwarzenegger is a European, with the manners and humor to match, although his willingness to discuss his body may be a result of his past six years of California living. In any case, never before in my life have I had the nerve to ask somebody the size of his cock. That was not, of course, my first question."

oui: You've spent most of your life turning your body into a model of excellence. Why? What does having the world's greatest body mean to you?

SCHWARZENEGGER: It means that I'm somebody special. What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys. I didn't get into body building until I was 15, and, at the time, my parents thought I was crazy to get deeply involved with something for which there was so little precedent in Austria. They even thought of sending me to a psychiatrist. They couldn't see any future in the sport; but there I was, lifting weights two or three hours every day.

oui: Did you have any idea then that body building would eventually bring you fame and fortune?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, not really. I was just locked into the idea of winning the world championship in body building. As time passed, I began to see it as a way out of Austria, an escape from the everyday life around me. I'd look out my parents' window and see people talking over a cup of coffee for two hours or more, and I knew it wasn't for me. My father was the local police chief and he led a very regular life. I became determined to make it without working from nine to five. Sports, I thought, was the only way to act out.

oui: But, at the time, were there really any bodybuilders who were making a living from the sport?

SCHWARZENEGGER: There was a guy named Reg Park. He's an Englishman who now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and he was my idol. He was publicized in the muscle magazines as a businessman and movie star, and the combination of the two so impressed me that all I could think of was winning the Mr. Universe title the fastest way possible. The basic problem, though, was that the Americans had an enormous advantage. Every Mr. Universe had come from America and, as it later turned out, I was the first one to break that pattern.

oui: Why were the Americans so successful? Was it a question of having more money?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, it was because the Americans had all the confidence. Theirs was a mental superiority, the feeling that they owned the title. But in Austria, the mentality was the reverse; winning against the Americans was unthinkable. By the time I was 15, though, I had a vision of absolutely wiping everybody off the stage. I had no idea, really, of what a stage even looked like, but I saw myself standing there, posing and winning.

oui: An epiphany, a dream?

SCHWARZENEGGER: A dream, yes, though not at night. It was just like having a vision—you know, like when you hear a person say, "I saw Jesus and he talked to me, and now I'm so happy with life because I know I'm going to be taken care of," and all of a sudden he's relaxed, he's not haunted anymore—well, it was like that.

oui: When was this visionary sense of yourself confirmed?

SCHWARZENEGGER: When I was 18 and still in the army, I entered the European body-building championship and won. It was my first competition and, even though it was the junior division, I instantly felt like King Kong, as if I'd already won the Mr. Universe title—which, in fact, I did win a year later. The title itself wasn't so important to me as the lifestyle it brought with it. I was living in Munich at the time, hanging out with night people—entertainers, hookers and bar owners—and I had a girlfriend who was a stripper. I was an innocent boy from a farm town, but I grew up fast in Munich. Then an American promoter wired me to come and compete in the States.

oui: Was your training affected by the drinking and screwing around?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, because having a good time is not nearly so damaging as people think. I'm constantly amazed when people ask me about discipline. Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

oui: You lift five and six tons daily because you enjoy it?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes, because I want to. Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline—the usual concept of it—doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.

oui: You never had to push yourself?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Absolutely not; at least, not the way most people think. I love body building. I positively get off on it. When you lift weights, there's a certain point in the repetitions at which it really starts aching—where you can't go on any further, and the body starts shaking, and you know you have to press one more time. That's where the satisfaction is: in going that one step further. That's why it gets painful. It's also what makes a champion. If you can't go through that pain period, that dead point, then competitively you won't make it.

oui: How do you deal with the pain?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I look forward to it, and when it starts, I tell myself that I have to go through this because damn few people can. It's like any other sport: You have to do what nobody else can do, and the only way is to push yourself past the limit.

oui: Do you have a training partner?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes. He helps push you through the pain periods. The relationship between the two of you is very close— closer than most marriages, in fact—and he has to understand when you're trying to chicken out, as well as when you really have to put the weights down, when you absolutely can't go on. He's looking after your body as if it were his own. Sometimes your body really gets bombed out: You try to go through this pain thing, but your body won't push the weight, and your partner will help you with his fingers just enough so that you can handle it. He'll stand behind you and lift with his fingers and make it possible—but just barely possible—for you to make the lift, and then on the next repetition, maybe he'll help a little bit more.

oui: With just his fingers on the bar?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Just with the fingers, yes. Maybe he's lifting five pounds, maybe only a single pound, but it can make all the difference. What it means is that somebody is helping, paying attention and really giving you his energy. It's all vibes: The two of you are out to conquer, to win. The two of you become a unit. You're working and nobody can get into your territory—it's that type of thing.

oui: It sounds as if your relationship with your training partner is so close that you wouldn't have much energy left for other relationships.

SCHWARZENEGGER: No. My training. belongs to the gym, period. When I walk out, it's an absolutely different thing. I lived with a woman for five years, a very smart lady who teaches English at a college in California. She finally split when I went into the film business, not because of the training.

oui: Still, you talk about the workouts as if they were taking place in a temple.

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes and no. There's often a point where you say, "It's getting too intense here." Your partner might be a little scared of the next set because you've been pushing him too hard, so you'll crack a joke and go over to somebody else and bullshit a little. Then you talk him into it. The best example I can think of was one day when Franco Columbu walked into the gym, went down into a squat with 500 pounds on his shoulders and couldn't come back up. Someone had to lift the weight off. I reminded Franco that four people from New York were watching the great Franco Columbu, the world's strongest bodybuilder, crashing down under a mere 500 pounds. "Franco," I told him, "this is very embarrassing. There are a lot of people here watching and they think that the muscle magazines are all bullshitting." He looked around and started breathing heavily, so I pushed it further. I bet him $20 in front of everybody that he couldn't do another repetition and then offered an additional $50 if he could go on and do eight reps. "Bullshit!" he screamed. "I did it a few weeks ago and I can do it again." Out of the door he went, took a few deep breaths and came back to do ten repetitions with the same weight—not eight but ten. Do you think his body changed? No; his body was the same, his power was the same, but he was motivated. He ripped the weight out and just started going up and down as if there were no end, as if he were going to do 50 repetitions.

oui: Can you push yourself too far?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I've torn pectoral muscles, fibers in my knee, in my thighs, and once I had to have an operation to repair torn cartilage. Generally you let muscles heal by themselves or get cortisone shots. Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle. At the same time, though, we generally manage to have a good time. Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's—the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train—there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

oui: A gang bang?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes, but not everybody, just the guys who can fuck in front of other guys. Not everybody can do that. Some think that they don't have a big-enough cock, so they can't get a hard-on. Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.

oui: What do you think about when you look at yourself in the mirror? Does your body become something outside yourself, an object?

SCHWARZENEGGER: It's outside of me and also part of me. I don't say, "Arnold, how do you look?" but rather "Let's check out this body in the mirror and see what it looks like today." Professionally, I have to be detached in order to be critical of it. I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

oui: With a body as perfect as yours, it seems strange to hear you talk of criticizing it.

SCHWARZENEGGER: From the bodybuilder's point of view, my physique was perfect when I won my last title; yet I felt it could have been better. It's true that I was in perfect proportion, but I weighed 228 pounds and I wanted to be 240, overall just bigger. If you keep the proportions, bigger is always better. The goal is to carry the weight but keep the proportion and symmetry.

oui: Does that mean that 300 pounds would be better than 240?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, because it wouldn't fit my height. I'm 6'2", and 240 pounds is the perfect weight for me.

oui: Wouldn't your head be out of proportion if you weighed 240 pounds?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No. Visually that can be taken care of very easily. All you have to do is let the hair grow and you have a bigger head. Also, in competition, the judges concentrate only on your physique. More than one Mr. Universe was an ugly son of a bitch.

oui: Is your cock disproportionate to the rest of you?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, that depends on what you mean by disproportionate. The cock isn't a muscle, so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure. Besides, I've never even heard of a bodybuilder who's tried to make his bigger.

oui: Really?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Really, though in my case, women have told me they're curious about its size—you know, outgoing chicks who're just trying to be outrageous or horny. I hear all kinds of lines, including "Oh, you're hurting me; you're so big." But it means nothing. Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's. oui: Many people think that bodybuilders see their physique as an instrument for getting laid. Is that true?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Are you asking if my basic motivation in building my body was to pick up girls? That's ridiculous. There are many easier ways to pick up girls, believe me. Of course, I do use what I have when it comes in handy. If nothing else, my body's a conversation piece.

oui: Are you embarrassed by that?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Not at all. A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent—anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger. A number of women, however, will say, "You're way too big for me; I don't like that."

oui: What kinds of women generally come on to you?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I can't categorize them. I've been approached by waitresses, stewardesses, teachers—come to think of it, there have been a great many teachers, women who are smart. Their trip is such a mental one that they are often attracted to men who are big and muscular.

oui: Do you feel exploited by such women?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, I'd feel used only if I didn't get something out of it. If a girl comes on strong and says, "I really dig your body and I want to fuck the shit out of you," I just decide whether or not I like her. If I do take her home, I try to make sure I get just as much out of it as she does. The word exploited therefore wouldn't apply.

oui: Do you think that your familiarity with your body gives you a sounder mind sexually?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I don't have any sexual hang-ups, but I'm sure there are bodybuilders who have trouble with sex, and obviously the body building hasn't helped. Still, if you're in touch with your body, you certainly have an enormous sexual advantage. The mind-body connection is the same in sex as it is in training. If I tell myself to train the thighs, then the calves, it's boom, boom, mind-thighs, mind-calves, mind-this, mind-that. And it's the same with fucking—mind-cock. You're in touch. You realize you have a body. Ninety percent of the people, though, don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

oui: Stirling Moss, the British racing-car champion, claimed that he'd never fuck the night before a race because it would sap his competitive drive. Does anything like that apply to bodybuilders, say, on the eve of the Mr. Olympia contest?

SCHWARZENEGGER: I get laid on purpose. I can't sleep before competition and I'm up all night, anyway, so instead of staring at the ceiling I figure I might as well find somebody and fuck.

oui: Doesn't it take the edge off your performance?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, why should it? For ten years, I've been building a physique. It's not going to run away after one night. What Moss and others are talking about is a totally mental thing: If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders. The guys who are working their way up often say they have to sleep ten hours a day and they try not to get laid more than three times a week, but, sooner or later, most of them find out that all this means shit. Whether you sleep two hours or ten, get laid a dozen times a week or not at all, eat three meals or five, at the end of the week you look absolutely the same; there's no difference.

oui: So you believe in writing your own rules?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Exactly. There are bodybuilders who are afraid of indulging in sex or even of playing other sports for fear of harming their bodies. I think that's silly. What's the use of building your body if you don't use it? At the Mr. Olympia contest in 1972, we had girls backstage giving head, then all of us went out and I won. It didn't bother me at all; in fact, I went out there feeling like King Kong.

oui: This business of feeling like King Kong—is it your act to psych everyone out so they know you're King Kong?

SCHWARZENEGGER: In the past five or six years, I haven't had to do that, but I used to do all kinds of numbers in the gym just to make it clear that I was the best. Gold's gym has produced ten or 12 Mr. Americas, and obviously there were guys there who wanted to take the Mr. Universe title away from me. What I do is make them feel great. I tell a guy that he's never looked better, that he looks brilliant, fantastic. "Your deltoids! And how did you get the tan and the proportion? I'm positive that you'll place; you'll beat Frank; I think you'll even beat Corney. You can easily beat this guy and that guy. I'm certain you'll go all the way—to second place."

oui: Is there a code of dos and don'ts in a championship?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Of course; but when you become a star almost anything goes. It's like Ali doing something dirty in the ring—not many people are going to take it too seriously. You're not supposed to talk while you're posing, for example, yet I used to do it all the time and it would blow the other guys' minds. If we were going through the compulsory poses—a double-biceps pose, say—I'd just turn to the guy next to me and say, "What a shame, what a disadvantage for you," or I'd psych him in reverse by aying that the disadvantage was mine, that he was definitely going to be the one to win. Once, I even sent a guy offstage. He was enormous, really fantastic, and the audience was screaming for both of us, so you knew it was going to be close. After about 15 minutes of posing, I told him I thought I'd had enough and that we ought to quit, just walk off. He agreed, turned around and left and I just stayed on. The audience immediately turned against him and I won—my first Mr. Olympia title, in 1970.

oui: What percentage of bodybuilders is gay?

SCHWARZENEGGER: The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.

oui: Many people think that bodybuilders eventually become muscle-bound. Is this true?

SCHWARZENEGGER: The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports. Columbu, for instance, was the Italian boxing champion. Ken Waller was a football player and Mike Katz played for the Jets. Robbie Robinson runs the 100-yard dash in 9.3 seconds. When the Russians were lifting weights in preparation for the Olympics—for the shot-put, the hammer throw and things like that—the Americans picked up on it immediately. Then there's the Russian master weight lifter, Alexiev. Do you know what speed it takes to do a snatch, to lift a 700- or 800-pound bar bell so fast that you can raise it over your head? Alexiev can't run because he weighs 375 pounds, a weight he needs in order to handle the bar bell. The Olympic decathlon champion, Bruce Jenner, is one of the world's best athletes. When training for the Olympics, he lifted weights for two hours daily, squatting with almost 500 pounds. The idea of a muscle-bound freak is nothing but a myth.

oui: Do you get freaked out by being in such close contact with men in the gym?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Not at all. When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders. Men shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to have nice- looking bodies. Another thing: Recently I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us. Well, I have absolutely no hang-ups about the fag business; though it may bother some bodybuilders, it doesn't affect me at all.

oui: Is there a broader acceptance of the body these days, as an offshoot of the sexual revolution of the Sixties?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes. I've been in America for only eight years, but there's been a change and it's getting better. It's happening in Europe, too. People are more at ease with their bodies.

oui: Being at ease is one thing, but whatever possessed you to pose for the Whitney Museum?

SCHWARZENEGGER: A woman from The New York Times had been doing a piece on body building. She came to the gym and asked if Corney and I would pose at the museum. I thought at once that it was a terrific idea. I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form. After the show, a lot of people came backstage and said it was fantastic, that they'd never thought of body building as art before.

oui: Didn't you feel like a pet monkey performing for the East Side ladies?

SCHWARZENEGGER: No, I felt great because I was the first athlete to be in a museum displaying his work of art, which just happened to be my physique. Overall, it was a great success. What does piss me off, though, is when people try to trick me into going to parties. You know, rich people in Beverly Hills who want to make the gossip columns.

oui: Now that you've retired from professional body-building competition and are concentrating on acting, don't you need the Hollywood publicity?

SCHWARZENEGGER: If that's the kind of publicity I have to depend on, I'm a sad, sad case. I don't choose my friends for publicity purposes. Jon Voight, Warren Beatty, Sylvester Stallone—I've gotten to know these people and they're a lot of fun. Stallone's into body building, and Jack Nicholson had a birthday party for me after we finished Stay Hungry. All my bodybuilder friends were there, really a mixed crowd—actors, bodybuilders, weight lifters, karate guys and writers—and it was great. The other kind of party, though, where someone's trying to rip you off—no, thanks.

oui: Are you serious about becoming a professional actor?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes, I've been going to acting school and I know that this is what I really want to do. At the moment, I'm looking for the right vehicles, and I pretty much know what I want. Do you know Hemingway's short story The Killers? I'd like to do a remake, play the guy the two mobsters are after—the Swede. I realize there's only one Arnold in the world, that there's never been an Arnold before, and the one thing that won't work on the screen is my being an ass-kicker. If Robert De Niro kills in Taxi Driver, it's perfect, because he's a little guy and people are 100 percent behind him. For me, that isn't the right kind of role, because I'm big and therefore I have to play the opposite kind of guy. When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody. If there's one thing I ought to do, it's the unexpected. Whether it's The Killers or something else, I probably should play the victim.

Interview Copyright 1977 Playboy Publications Inc.