Although there are quite literally hundreds of magazines in this category, and many of them have subtitles, all but a few fall into 2 main subcategories. Those subcategories are shown below - one is the "BEST OF GENESIS" series and the other is "GIRLS /GIRLS" - the first few issues of this particular title were actually part of the "Best of" series until being spun off as a separate title in 1984.

Like most other titles that published 'Best Of' or 'Special' issues these mags generally consist of reprinted material from regular monthly issues. However, some of the later issues contain all new material that did not appear in regular monthly issues and still others are a combination of reprints and new material. In the case of reprinted material I have cross referenced what appears in the special issue with the original source magazine and the dates listed are those of the original source. In many cases what appears in the special issue is identical to what appeared in the original source and no other information is given. However, a significant number of the features in the special issues differ from the sources and in those cases I have noted the differences. This information applies ONLY to the photos and does not include cases where the text accompanying the photos may have been changed slightly or other inconsequential differences.  

GENESIS began it's highly popular 'Friends & Lovers' Amateur Erotic Photo Contest feature in the issue of Sept, 1978. Just about a year later the very first Genesis special appeared, Not surprisingly it was a compilation of the women featured during the previous year and titled "Friends & Lovers Amateur Erotic Photo Album". It included the 12 months from 9/78 - 8/79. A year later (in late 1980) the 2nd volume of the series appeared bearing the same title and the #2 designation and indicating an annual publication frequency. It seems reasonable to assume sales of this issue were farily good since it was only 6 months later that the 3rd volume was published covering the period from 9/80 -2/81 and doubling the frequency of publication to semi-annually.

Sometime during 1981 it was determined that the "BEST OF GENESIS" would be the umbrella title under which all the specials would be published. Also adopted was a system of numbering the issues using a standard Volume, Number notation. This accounts for the appearance late in 1981 of the 4th issue in the series (covering the months 3/81 -8/81) being designated V.3, #5. The number 5 apparently is the total number of special issues to that point, over a period of 3 years.