Introduction
"Corruption" is another of the recently liberated "avant-garde" novels written and published abroad, which were arbitrarily classified as obscene and banned in Paris and London. New psychological enlightenment, and the new sexual revolution now make possible this edition of a truly extraordinary piece of literary erotica.
At first glance, it might be said that never did a book's title fit its subject matter so well. Among the sexual aberrations and perversions described with complete frankness are rape, copulation between humans and animals, necrophilia or intercourse with corpses and a host of other psychological curiosa. Also dealt with in passing is normal and abnormal intercourse between negro and white, psychosexual cannibalism, and sexual oddities not even met with in medical texts on abnormal psychology. So varied is the treatment of previously taboo subject matter that the reader is carried through a dazzling array of fascinating erotica in this fascinating story.
Peter Finchley, the author of "Corruption," also won wide notoriety when he confessed that the use of the hallucinogens such as peyote, marijuana and LSD were of considerable help to him as a writer. Perhaps the genesis of many of the utterly fantastic sex scenes in this story can be attributed to this type of inspiration. In any event, "Corruption" will be found to be one of the most unusual and imaginative erotic "tour de force" ever encountered by the reader.
Freud has said, "The blindly unconscious sex desires repressed in every man's mind would, if left to run rampant and unchecked by the psychic inhibitions of the ego, turn civilized society into a bestial chaos."
This bizarre, highly erotic story seems to have been written to prove this principle of Freud, the greatest of all psychoanalysts.
Continental Classics presents here for the first time in this country one of the most extraordinary erotic novels of the modern genre. It is recommended only for the serious student and mature adults.
Allan Saunders, M.A. New York City, January 1968
Archive Note: The truly amazing number of misspellings in the original pocketbook are faithfully reproduced in this text. No attempt whatsoever has been made to correct the misspelled or misused words.