Foreword
Of all forms of sexual aberrations, none has produced more violent and yet widely divergent public reactions than that of mother-son incest. These range all the way from the fact that this activity is, in fact, the ultimate form of mother love to the other extreme that the dirtiest word in the English language is "mother-fucker."
By whose word and decision is this practice indeed judged as sinful? Even theologians are hard pressed to find direct references condemning it in the scriptures. Sociological researchers tend to agree that the cultural bans against sexual relations between mothers and sons can be traced back to the totem and taboo of primordial cultures during the age of the Neanderthal man. During this period, at the dawn of civilization, mankind was a minority group that was engaged in a never-ending battle with the animals and the raw elements of nature. Survival was the name of the game. The nomad tribes of Cro-Magnon man who banded together to share a single cave for the primary purpose of self-preservation vied with each other in a constant uphill battle against extinction.
These tribes were the forerunners of the family group as later generations grew to know it. They were hard pressed to keep up with the attrition of those members of their clans who were lost in the perpetual battle with the animals who outnumbered and overwhelmed them on all fronts. The natural tribal birth rate alone would not keep the scales in balance. A constant supply of new adult blood was required. If the virile young male members of the "family" were allowed to satiate their sexual appetites in continual cohabitation with what we now call their mothers and sisters, the tribal "family" would be doomed to sure extinction. Realizing this fact, the tribal elders established strict taboos against such intramural sexual liaisons. Thus they forced the young males out to capture and subdue the maidens of other tribal groups and drag them into the communal cave to serve them sexually and thus perpetuate the balance of tribal population.
Even as civilization progressed and man emerged triumphant over the animals and the elements, the old rules persisted and became the foundation for the cultural bans against intra-family sex, or what we have come to refer to as incest.
It must be noted that once the original need for the taboo had passed not all cultures and societies continued to embrace and enforce it. Indeed, in many such cultures which are still prevalent in Africa, Central and South America and the South Pacific islands, the sexual education and indoctrination of the male child is considered a primary and sacred duty of the mother.
To what extent mother-son incest flourishes in current sociological circles, even experts can do little more than venture a guess. Statistics in this highly personal realm of human existence are virtually non-existent. Rare indeed is the son who would blow the whistle on his mother to the local religious or social authorities for making sexual advances to him. How do these anti-social practices come into being? What spawns and nourishes them?
In the author traces the life cycle of one such sociological phenomenon from inception to fruition to resolution. The characters are, to be sure, fictional and yet their individual experiences and pattern of progression through this little-understood and seldom-discussed aspect of human sexual behavior are classically genuine. Even in the informal manner in which they are presented to the reader, they may well represent one of the most cogent studies of this particular aspect of human sexuality.
-The Publisher