Introduction
"Voluptuous Experiment" is an unusual story, so astonishingly frank in its detailed expose of a European society woman's love life that it was banned in Paris and London upon its publication. As several eminent psychologists have remarked after reading this remarkable document, if it would have been published in a clinical journal of psychology, it would have been acclaimed as a noteworthy piece of work. There is no doubt that it represents a valuable addition to the archives of abnormal sexual studies.
It should be borne in mind that except for the obvious changes in name to protect the identity of certain prominent persons, this story recounts the psycho-sexual adventures of the heroine which actually occurred. Since identities have been concealed, the most intimate sex secrets of some of those fascinating people composing the "international set" are frankly recounted.
Basically, these are the intimate memoirs of a most attractive, voluptuous woman whose sex life was frustrating and unsatisfactory, due to no outwardly discernible cause. Frantic at being denied the one joy of supreme sensuality which is every woman's birthright, she strives zealously to release herself from the bondage of her neurosis. Oddly enough, a famous psychiatrist she visits advises her to indulge in every extreme type of lustful perversion as an attempt at curing herself.
She follows his advice to the extent that a fabulous reputation as a nymphomaniac and even worse begins to build up around her as she seeks her "Cure" in foreign lands, she indulges in so many perverse sex experiences, that although she knows she is following a psychiatrist's advice, she begins to lose what remains of her self-respect.
At this point, several dramatic events occur in the sex-life of our heroine which have a most unexpected and unforeseen physical effect in her relationships with all males. Many interesting psychological questions are raised here; not the least being just how literally should a patient follow a psychiatrist's counsel. The reader himself will have to be the judge as to whether more damage was wrought by the sex advice given to our neurotic society woman, or whether it resulted in a real psychological cure.
Continental Classics is proud to present this edition of an outstanding case history of a modern nymphomaniac as told by herself for the first time in the United States. It is recommended only for professional people and the mature general reader.
Allen Saunders, M.A. New York City, October 1967