Foreword
When a child is the daughter of a landlady, she gets a more worldly view of mankind than other children. Instead of going out into the world to gain experience, the world comes to her.
Unfortunately, the area of opportunity dictates much of the relationships between men and women and adults and children. It is haphazard and, simply because of opportunity, there are people who have a greater latitude of experiences than other individuals.
Good or bad, this means that people in certain situations have greater risks and greater opportunities than others. Sexually this holds true also.
A girl, like the one in this book, has no choice in what she will learn about sexual activity. The combination of her own budding lust and the fact that she is in contact with a wider segment of adults with a greater diversity of backgrounds and sexual attitudes almost insures that she will grow up with knowledge about sexual perversity.
Is it good or bad? That is an impossible question to answer. Somebody must always know more than someone else. This is true in sex as it is in science or computer math or whatever. The question raised by the moral judgments about sex is, who knows enough to judge what other people should learn.
-THE PUBLISHER