Foreword
Given the current climate of sexual freedom among American youth, it is hardly surprising that their search for sexual kicks has spread to the once considered perverted practices of bi-sexuality, homosexuality and lesbianism, and even to incest.
This gripping and explicit book explores the strange relationship between a lovely young seventeen-year-old girl and her older brother- a relationship that would have, in other circumstances, been nothing more than a bothersome but harmless episode to be laughed at later in their lives. Instead, when they are left alone and to their own devices by their parents, their explosive lusts for each other threatens to destroy them both.
Contrary to contemporary opinion, incest has not always been universally condemned. Indeed, in some societies-the Polynesian and Roman-to give two examples, incest was required to perpetuate the ruling families. It was common practice for mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and brothers and sisters to have sexual relationships openly and unashamedly.
Our society, of course, has considered incest to be the most heinous sin of all and has done everything possible to use the full weight of the law and morality to discourage it. However, instead of stamping out the practice we have driven it underground and filled the participants in such a relationship with enormous feelings of guilt.
This vivid account of such a relationship is no brief for incest. Instead, each reader is left to determine for himself whether the protagonists are more to be pitied than censured. The author has left nothing to the imagination in portraying the agony and the ecstasy that Marsha and Billy Cobb find with each other.
Precisely because of the explicit language and the realistic descriptions contained in this valuable work, we recommend it for mature and understanding adults only.
Through the years we have attempted to provide for our readers a range of outstanding fiction by some of America's best authors on subjects which inform as well as entertain. This is such a work and we fell that only by graphically exploring the psycho-social implications of the entire human condition can we hope to achieve a better understanding of ourselves.
We hope we have succeeded.
-THE PUBLISHERS