Introduction
They will try anything to cut the boredom of deadening solitude-endless strings of soap operas, the latest crash diet, pills to induce sleep and relieve depression. A sad lot they are, these housewives whose husband's work pre-empts marital responsibilities. Worse still, many of these young and attractive women are approaching their thirties when the female animal's sexual appetite has been whetted by experience and craves total and unabashed satiation.
Crumbling it is to a woman's ego to discover that a weekend romp in the bedroom is her sole raison d'etre, that to please her husband, her life mate, is the skimpy reward for sacrificing a career and refusing tempting extra-marital affairs behind his back.
Edward Mitchell has again surprised us with an energetic work, The Kidnapped Housewife, the story of one such woman, Jill Carlson, who has fallen into the dark trap of the abandoned housewife and who goes to bed one evening deeply depressed over her husband's obvious infidelities. She contemplates suicide and awakens after a drug-induced sleep with the horrifying realization that she has been kidnapped by the burglars who have stripped her house clean. The contortions, the madness of buying minutes of life with inches of flesh is the ultimate conclusion to this story.
We, the publishers, present to our avid readers our latest edition of the Captive Women series which explores the inner workings of the female mind under humiliation and distress.
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