Introduction
The libido is a wonderful thing. It is unfortunate that even in this enlightened age people have not yet learned to trust their own bodies. We are as much body as mind, and to deny the one because of the perversity of the other is a problem that has been with us since man first created values.
It was Cicero, the great Roman thinker who said, "Nothing that is human is alien to me". We, the publishers, believe this adage to be true, and regret that so many people still enslave themselves in the chains of their frustrations.
We are, all of us, creatures of our desires. And when these desires are repressed, they become warped and malignant. It is far better to enact the pleasurable fantasies of our humanity with the willing cooperation of our partners, than it is to foist curdled dreams on an unwilling society.
We live in troubled times, when terrorism and political outrage run rampant through the nations of our world. We live in a time that preaches freedom for the individual while entwining him in the restraints of commercial necessity: buy the pleasures that we say you can buy, not the pleasures you desire.
Guilt, obscenity and the moral strictures of our society are involved in a concatenation of political debauchment that is more obscene than any of the simple pleasures of the flesh.
The author of this volume attempts to show that the illumination of one's fantasies can be an enlightening and rewarding experience. For it is by facing up to our own humanity that we can truly find out who and what we are.
The author is not advocating social or moral upheaval. Rather, he asks that the reader be honest enough to question a few of those values that are accepted, and venerated, for no better reason than that they are there.
We live in the midst of social turmoil, and to choose the wise and straight path it is necessary that we consider and decide issues for ourselves.
This author has published many books with us, and we consider his thesis of personal responsibility to be an important landmark in contemporary thought. With no further delay then, we invite you to enjoy as we did, John Wilson's, "A Family Vacation ".
THE PUBLISHERS