Introduction
The young English write, Jack Ross made his mark with this remarkably frank, well-written first novel featuring some highly unusual varieties of sexual perversion. Sales of the book zoomed to astronomical proportions during the first two weeks it was in the London bookshops, and then it was summarily banned by the censors. The DeGaulle government also forbade the book, and the disappointed author left the inhospitable atmosphere of England to continue his writing in Nazare, Portugal. Underground sales of the book continued brisk and it soon became a collector's item in the field of "avant garde" erotica.
Some of the motivations of the main characters and their unusual sexual reactions may perhaps be better understood from the following data from the files of the famous analyst, Dr. Berndorff:
"Even though my husband called me frigid, I enjoyed having sexual intercourse with him. When we lay in bed together nude, with only a sheet covering us, I would caress his anus and think 'If only he were a woman'. As his penis became rigid and he entered my vagina he would
become very excited. He would work it in and out in a frenzy until he ejaculated in me, but I had to pretend to respond.
"He liked to continue intercourse in unusual and perverted ways. Although we had a bed, he liked to lay me on a hard floor. He asked me to suck his penis. I wanted to please him in this, but his penis was so large, I could only manage to get the head of it in my mouth. Then when he ejaculated, the flood of warm sperm spurting down my throat would make me gag and choke on it.
"I did enjoy it when he would perform cun-nilingus on me. His tongue would barely touch my vagina and clitoris and it would be sufficient to give me a powerful orgasm. I also liked it when he would insert his penis in my anus. Even though its huge size would pain my rectum, if he did not use a lubricant to help the head slide in.
"But seeing a woman nude in the toilet would give me a far greater thrill than having sex with my husband. I would masturbate by putting a sanitary napkin between my legs and wriggle it against my clitoris. I would soon have a most thrilling orgasm as I thought of the nude woman."
It should prove instructive and enlightening to the reader's psychological understanding to realize that sexual perversion in real life often outstrips the wildest action in even a novel like "A Hole In One".
Continental Classics presents this book in its unexpurgated, original version. It is recommended only for the graduate student or the mature adult reader.
Allan Saunders, M.A. New York City April, 1968