Introduction
Lors Torberg, the young Swedish author, set a new high for stark sex reality in revealing the relations between many different kinds of women in all walks of life. Rarely have the forces tending towards the degeneration of female morals today, been more graphically described. The book proved extremely popular in Stockholm, but was banned in London within two weeks after its publication by the Chief Censor's Office. 'Teaching the Girls" soon became a popular underground collector's item for libraries of avant garde erotica on the Continent.
In reference to some of the highly unusual situation occurring to the young women in the story, the following observations will be of interest. They are true excerpts from the actual case histories of Dr. S. Fliezell, the prominent psychiatrist.
He states "My patient, Norman C, a young, virile looking school-teacher, was impotent in most types of normal sexual intercourse. However there were certain sex situations where he could have a normal erection. In his own words: 'I found that I could have a normal erection only if I were "teaching" a young girl something about sex which she didn't know before. For instance, a lot of girls don't know that a man's nipples have an erotic, erectile response. I like to teach girls how to massage my nipples and watch the expression on their faces when they see them "erect" just like their own.
'I .actually taught one girl how to be a real good cock-teaser. I trained her to lick with her tongue right near my pecker, along my bush-hair, and then to tickle my balls as well. Then I taught her to take my dick in her mouth a number of different ways.
'Most of the time she'd begin licking my head like an ice-cream cone, from the bottom up. When she finally took it in her mouth, she would make it seem better than her vagina-she moved it in and out with so much stimulation. She'd build up the sensation until I generally shot my wad right down her throat. I trained her to swallow the whole load, to really drain the last drop of sperm right out of my cock!'"
The reader should experience a greater knowledge of perverted sexual behavior from reading this novel. If this leads to greater restraint and self-discipline in these matters, it cannot but help having an all-around beneficial effect.
It is from this standpoint that Continental Classics presents the original and unexpurgated version of this novel. It is recommended only for the graduate student and mature adult reader.
A. L. Saunders May, 1969 New York City