Introduction
The highly original and unusual "Memoirs of Dee Dee" were originally published in Paris and all available copies were sold out in record time. Reprint was forbidden by the French Bureau of Public Morals, and copies of the story of the fabulous Dee Dee were soon bringing fantastic prices from tourists, and other interested readers who had heard of Dee Dee by word of mouth.
For purposes of comparison in intimate sex details, normal and otherwise, let it be said here and now that "Candy" is like a Sunday School student compared to the irrepressible "Dee Dee". Dee Dee lives and breathes as a very attractive girl in these pages, and her allure is such that we can forgive her most outrageous sex adventures and lapses from morality.
The creation of an American expatriate writer residing in Paris, Dee Dee is the actual story of the adventures of an alluring, immoral wench. It is laid in America and is a biting satire of sex-practices in this country. Rarely has the psychology of the "loose woman," not actually a prostitute and on the make, been told with such vivacity and objective psychological probing of certain revered sex customs in this country. If the sex scrapes and other questionable adventures that Dee Dee undergoes seem a bit far-out, we refer the reader to the dozens of girls like Dee Dee who are unfortunate enough to get caught and are duly written up in the daily tabloids all over America.
Psychologically the mainsprings of Dee Dee's sex behavior can be traced to an overpowering need for love and affection, due to childhood traumatic denials from parents and other sources of a child's ego strength. Dee Dee is driven to unusual lengths of sexual expression as she matures, driven by her need for the love and recognition she was deprived of in her maturing years. The combination of these repressed desires in the body of a voluptuous young female is the mainspring that drives Dee Dee to the furthermost reaches of the fleshpots of perversion. It will be noticed that in amoral individuals of this particular type, any feelings of guilt or remorse are practically non-existent.
But "Dee Dee" must be read to be understood, and Continental Classics is fortunate to have secured reprint rights to Dee Dee's story for the first time in this country.
The complete and unexpurgated Continental Classic edition is recommended for the mature adult reader only.
Allan Saunders, M. A. New York City, September 1967