Since the element of sexual tease is a relatively dead issue in mainstream adult productions, matters such, are pretty much left to companies who excel in feeding the imagination, visually.

This time around, Playboy, well established in its video magazine and playmate video formats, has put together a program of love, lust, deception and amusement — not necessarily in that order — in stories patterned after their famous "Ribald Classics."

A winsome farmer's daughter seduces the traveling salesman; a magician's beautiful assistant shows a few tricks of her own; Casanova gets caught in the clinches; a peasant girl gets the last laugh on a nobleman.... Notice that it's the women who are scoring the big "lib" points in these sexual mano e mano.

Combining a beautiful cast with lavish sets and the patented filigree of the camera, Playboy has given us an hour's worth of what the foreplay factor is all about—the wistful eye, the glimpse of the leg and the turn of the screw.

The tape is well designed for couples who are looking for something else besides cookies and warm milk before bedtime.