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Friday? l9; 19S6 Alcohol won't excite 'em, says L.I. psychiatrist By OWEN MORITZ women and alcohol, is that the standard charts listing the blood alcohol levels to be expected with a given I amount of drinking don't ap-1 ply to women. I "There's a very strange in-' consistency from day to day," she said. "It's somehow related to the menstrual cycleblood alcohol levels go up in the premenstrual period but it's not so clearly; related that it's predictable." The unpredictability of women's response to alcohol means that they to be more careful than men about i driving after Blume said. In a nationwide study, only 8 of women who were heavy drinkers said they were less particular about choosing a sexual partner when they had been drinking, she said.

But 60 said they had been targets of male sexual aggression during drinking bouts. "Although many alcoholic women report that they expect desire for and enjoyment of sex after drinking, at the same time they suffer from sexual dysfunction," Blume wrote in the journal. One. crucial finding, Blume said in the survey of Association, Blume said that both men and women report the same reaction to alcohol increased sexual desire. But studies of women's physical signs of arousal showed "a negative linear relationship" to alcohol intake, Blume said the more alcohol, the less arousal.

Body doesn't agree "When she's drinking, she reports greater excitement," Blume said. "But her body knows it's not so." The boozy, promiscuous woman exists more in male perception than in reality, Blume said in an interview. Breezing along with the frJ i "IT I 't" Split decision? No one can accuse Andy O'Rourke, the GOP candidate for governor, of letting a little private business get in the way of a campaign issue. O'Rourke, the Westchester County executive, has made an Issue of New York City's new gay rights biff he doesn't Hke K. This is the same guy who represented Irwin M.

Chtnitz, a Westchester gay bar mogul, before the State Liquor Authority in 1979. Explains O'Rourke: This shows that I haven't the slightest bit of discrimination against people who are gay." BATTLEFRONT: Oft-troubled developer Harry MackJowe Is again under fire this time from his old nemesis, the Russian Tea Room. Owners of the restaurant have filed a S1 million suit for damages growing out of Macktowe's 65-story Metropolitan Tower, rising next door at 150 W. 57th St The Tea Room's James Stewart-Gordon complains falling glass and Macklowe's construction apparatus have hurt business. 00 0 OVERBOOKED? Remember Michael Burnett, the con man who helped the FBI uncover official corruption in Chicago and New York's Parking Violations Bureau? Well you may not, but two guys think Burnett is worth a book.

One is William Aronwald, a former federal prosecutor and Burnett's attorney. The other is Gaeton Fonzi, the journalist who broke the 000 1812 OVERTURE: Arab billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed summoned Mayor Koch to his suite at the Pierre yesterday to give him a rare bottle of 1812 vintage Napoleon brandy. The mayor promptly offered to arrange an auction of the fifth at Sotheby's, the proceeds to benefit the Citymeals-On-Wheels program. Nice Idea, but state law bars the selling of liquor at auction. One possibility auction the booze at Sotheby's in London.

The sheik, no piker, also handed the mayor a $100,000 check to benefit the meats By EDWARD EDELSON Day News Sconce Ed'tc Contrary to popular opinion, alcohol is not an aphrodisiac for. women, a Long Island psychiatrist said yesterday. Even the popular and well subsidized male belief that heavy drinking makes women promiscuous is not borne out by scientific studies, said the psychiatrist, Dr. Sheila Blume, director of the Alcoholism and Compulsive Gambling Program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical UWrTEO PRESS INTERNATIONAL ROCHESTER, N.Y.

If women are forced to cover their breasts in public, then men should have to wear ear-muffs to cover "sexy" ear lobes, one of the "Topfree Seven" feminists argued yesterday. Summing up at their trial challenging a state law that requires women but not men to cover their breasts in public, Nikki Craft, 36, of Oshkosh. complained that it's unconstitutional and also makes no sense. Craft, one of the women arrested during a "topfree picnic" in Rochester's Cobbs Hill Park June 21, wore a scarf, earmuffs and held a yellow bikini top to her chest at times to demonstrate that various cultures demand women cover different parts of their bodies. "In many countries I would be required to appear before you with only my eyes showing through," she said, wrapping the scarlet scarf around her head.

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in regional sections the back of the bus she said, referring to Rosa Parks, the celebrated Montgomery, black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man in the 1950s. "I think we've made a major, major statement" said Mary Lou Schloss, 38, of Rochester, another defendant Defense lawyer David Moss, representing five protesters, called the exposure statute "a dinosaur of the penal law" and said the protest was a much needed attempt by women to "reclaim their bodies from por- SUNDAY MIDLIFE CRISIS angst is treated in yet another film, "That's Life," starring Jack Lemmon. City Lights Lemmon I PA.Y NEWS PHOWE8: Wnmrf21gg1100 Ct-irrHd MwWnq (212)949-2000 Ptgpt AdvrtWog gio-2060 Circulation (212)949-204 Nm T)p to Ciry DMk 21 0-NEWS.