Introduction
Ever since the spectacular reports that Doctor Alfred Kinsey and his army of researchers published, a vast of amount of information concerning the sexual habits and practices of our sophisticated peoples has become known. There has been much research and persistent effort among those who examine into the sexual upheaval that has taken place, and surprising co-operation and garrulity on the part of those who have revealed their sexual experiences with remarkable candor. And, because this is so, many unsuspected types of human behavior have come to light, not only in the files of those who research, but in the case histories of the nation's psychiatrists and psychologists.
The prevalence of incest as a part of our social scheme has been unsuspected for a long time, mainly because those who usually participate in such acts rarely if ever reveal such activities to parents or other authorities. When and if the police learn of such acts they invariably keep the matter secret, supposing that no good can be accomplished by revealing such information. Because of this reticence about this particular type of sexual activity, it has long been supposed that incest was either non-existent or on the wane.
The practicing psychiatrists and psychologists can refute this belief and many have reported that incest as a way of life is much more common than supposed, and no psychiatrist is surprised to learn that an incestuous experience was a part of a person's early sexual development.
What is surprising to many is the fact that there are many people who continue their incestuous relationships after they have met and married other mates. Yet, as one psychiatrist said recently, this, too, has become quite common.
Commenting on this facet of today's mores, the psychiatrist pointed out that many people become accustomed to the person and the sexual reactions of their incestuous partners and are often unable to function properly without them. Too, there are many others who develop into highly sensual hedonists who find the continuation of incestuous relationships intensely pleasant and rewarding.
Whatever the reasonings behind such activities there are many women who marry and for one reason or another continue incestuous relationships, and in some cases, achieve great satisfaction from such arrangements.
Perhaps because of today's permissive attitudes and mores those who are involved with such practices seem to have little interest in the moral aspects of such relationships, but concentrate instead upon the ability to enjoy voluptuous sensual pleasures with little or no reserve. And because there are so many such cases now being revealed this volume will attempt to examine into some of them.
It can be mentioned, in passing, that the utter frankness people who do talk about their sex lives exhibit, need not be considered as wholesome. Many psychiatrists suspect that those who do talk so frankly, and at such great length, can and do experience strong sensual feelings while doing so, and they suggest that it is this thrilling sensuality that is mainly responsible for the frankness and candor so prevalent in today's case histories.
Contemplation of the case histories suggests that this is so.