Her mainstream screen work never went beyond a minor role in Eve of Destruction (1998). That's because Zdrok has always been more interested in academia than Hollywood. That's continued to pay off with her "Ask Dr. Z" column in Penthouse and a SIRIUS Satellite Radio show"The Sex Connection"on Howard Stern's Howard 101 channel.
Now there's Dr. Z on Scoring: How to Pick Up, Seduce and Hook Up with Hot Women. This book is the how-to guide for regular guys who've dreamt of unattainable women. Zdrok certainly sounds reasonable as she provides an insider's view of what women in glossy magazines really want in a man. Some of it sounds pretty pulpy. The very good doctor gave Mr. Skin more insight into all this from her home headquarters in New Jerseywhich helps her sound attainable right there.
We just watched a reality show where a professional matchmaker was talking to a woman with a doctorate. She didn't want her client to list herself by her official title, since, "if you lead with your business affiliation, the man's ding-dong goes down."
Wow. If anything, more people who end up falling in love with me have a real infatuation when they find out about my degrees. Beauty's captivating, but it's also common. There are a lot of beautiful women. They can be created, to some extent. When a man learns that there's more to a woman than just her good looks, then she really has his attention. Men have told me that they have fallen in love with me because they love to hear me talk. There are insecure men out there, but they're a low percentage, statistically speaking.
Also, I used to wear glasses, but then I got LASIK eye surgery and quit wearing them. All my fans were saying, "Put the glasses back on." There are entire generations of men who have this sexy schoolteacher prototype that's imprinted in early childhood. Now I just wear fake glasses.
Your new book doesn't have anything in common with The Game or any other product by all the pick-up artists we've seen in the media lately.
My book was written partly as a response to those books that tell men to put a woman down or to act arrogant and cocky. All these pick-up artists claim that they date beautiful women, but I've never seen any beautiful women with them. I've been in the glamour industry for over fifteen years.
Everyone knows me, and I know the majority of Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets. I can assure you that, over the years, I've seen how these women are into normal guys. The distinction is that these are normal guys with talents and charisma.
They also have a certain kindness and know where to find women. There are natural habitats for beautiful women. A lot of them marry their make-up artists or photographers or yoga instructors.
One of our Penthouse Pets of the Year is with a short, chunky guy who's kind of broke and has two kids from a prior marriage. She's supporting him, basically. We couldn't figure out why. He's a regular nice guy, but then we also learned that they went to rehab together, so they're also each other's guides in sobriety. That's the kind of experience that can bring people together.
You mentioned that women's physical preferences come from an early imprint in their early childhood.
My book is based on prototypes for love mapswhich explains why some women might reject a man. Don't internalize it or think that you're ugly. You're just not their prototype. The good news about prototypes is that there's a lid for every pot. I recommend that every guy figures out what type fits them. I list the most popular ones in my book. If you want to be a bohemian artist type, then it works to have long hair and dress a certain way and be melancholy. If you want to be the driven charismatic businessman, then have business cards and wear a suit.
Some woman will be attracted to that prototype, and you can move on if the woman you're after isn't. If you're going with a rock-star look, then it's going to be successful with Pamela Anderson (Picture: - ). We know her prototype.
I like more of a professional medical look. Men in white, even if they're not doctors. Paramedics are good, or rescuer types in general.
Here at Mr. Skin, we pretty much make our living on the impression that a beautiful woman can make on a young man.
I'd say so, absolutely. It's that way for women too. I always loved the old movies that made their way into the USSR. They were sort of forbidden.
I remember sex scenes with Cary Grant, and his hair slicked back with that shiny stuff. I still love it when guys do that. The man I'm with now does that. He looks like he stepped out of a movie from the 1940s. There was also the taste of the forbidden, so it was especially delicious to watch something like that.
That influenced the kind of woman I wanted to project as well. I dress in hats with feathers, and I have on high stockings for the book cover. You see me in garter belts. It's all influenced by those old movies.
The fetish industry relies on young impressions.
It's fascinating. I was talking to a guy with a pie-in-the-face fetish, and he distinctly remembers becoming excited while watching Vanna White getting pied in the face on national television. He was six years old. So the media definitely influences us. There's a whole generation of boys right now who'll grow up to want women who look like Hannah Montana.
You have sex tips in your book, and they're a lot more useful than anything we ever see in magazines like Cosmopolitan. Why are the sex tips in women's magazines always so dull?
They seem to have a strange attitude about sex. They cover it, and they're fascinated by it, but there's also a lot of shame underlying those articles. You'll never see tips on BDSM. They may write about the occasional submission fantasy, but you can see them trying to avoid territory that might seem sinful. My publicist told me that she was sending the press release on my book to all these media outlets, and some places were immediately bouncing it back because it refers to me as a "sexpert." So we took the word out. It's the usual Madonna/whore dichotomy.
Have you ever regretted posing nude or making adult films?
No, I've never played it safe. I grew up with this very interesting avant garde youth in the USSR. We were rebels. My generation was the one that brought down the Iron Curtain. We rebelled against all the rules. I cut off my red tie in school, which was a very defiant act. That got me in huge trouble. If you know my roots, then you know that our 1960s happened in the 1980s, including the wild sex parties.
I've always seen myself as a free thinker, and I won't be told what I'm supposed to do to be a lady. I've always been eager to redefine eroticism and challenge the stereotypes. I'm almost a caricature. I meet people who think I'm crazy when I tell them that I've posed for Playboy and Penthouse.
So does this new book mean that you're some kind of gender traitor?
I'm telling a few secrets, but I think I'm actually helping women. The advice in my book creates the kind of guy that every woman wants. They really don't want that arrogant jerk who won't even pay for dinner. I want to bridge the gap and maybe create some knights in shining armor. Guys will say that women don't want that, but every girl dwells on the fairy tales.
