Introduction
"Getting Hers" is the first novel of a young Danish writer residing in London. Although written in the highly stylized manner of "My Secret Life", this frank detailing of a most unusual sexual triangle was promptly banned by the London Metropolitan Censor. Subsequent copies published in Paris were also confiscated after being banned by the DeGaulle government. Nevertheless the Twentieth Century boldness combined with the Victorian charm of this revealing story made it a popular favorite with collectors of modern literary erotica.
We can more readily appreciate the heroine's sexual problem in the light of the following notes from the casebook of the famous psychoanalyst, Dr. 0. Wernecke:
"A girl, who for many years had habitually masturbated as her only sexual outlet, had an affair with an older man and experienced her first ecstatic orgasm induced by the entry of his extremely large penis. Although she clearly recognized the difference in their ages, she fell under his spell and succumbed again and again to his unusual sexual endowment. She thought of him as a kind of magician and doubted that any other man's entry could make her as happy as his. No matter what abnormal sex gratification he demanded, she yielded to him nevertheless. Her mind said "no", but her body cried "yes", so great is the power of complete sexual satisfaction over women. When she felt the man's hands on her flesh, she felt her blood bounding and singing, her vagina hungry for his piercing entry. In letting the affair start in the beginning she had meant it to be no more than an innocent kind of flirtation. She had never realized the depths of depravity and passion into which she would be driven."
In reading of the not so gradual descent into perversion in "Getting Hers" one can see that the old-fashioned proverb of "Look before you leap" should be applied to one's sexual life above all else. As this tale draws to its startling and dramatic conclusion it should prove enlightening as well as exciting.
Continental Classics presents this story in its complete and unexpurgated entirety to the American reading public. Because of the nature of its central theme, this story is recommended for graduate students or mature adults only.
Allan Saunders, M.A. New York City March, 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.