Foreword
There have been many explanations put forth as to why incest taboos have been formed, in one way or another, in most cultures; explanations ranging from a need to strengthen the tribe by a constant introduction of new blood, to incest creating rivalries that disrupt family life. However, the former explanations grow weak in the face of the current world overpopulation problem, as well as in cases where there is no record of latent hereditary defects in a family line. While the latter explanation pales under circumstances, like the one put forth in this book, wherein rivalries cease to exist. Though, despite rationalizations possible that might make incest a viable form of sexual relationship, it is often exceedingly difficult for people to successfully break down ingrained taboos, especially when considering the role of the church in formation of society norms. For, as states Vance Packard in his THE SEXUAL WILDERNESS: "Many of the conventional norms, principally those of the church ... produce many guilt complexes."
The following novel is of one family rife with incestuous desires, some of which have been allowed to run their natural course, others of which have been held in check so long that it becomes a matter of the right catalyst to release them. This is the story of that catalyst, and how it finally brings one mother, via her ordeal of pain, to the realization that her love for her children, and their love for her-even their incestuously sexual love-isn't necessarily sinful when there are invariably no victims, only mutual enjoyment accepted without guilt by all of those involved.
Read, then, of Barbara Wiler and the catalyst of pain that opens her eyes to the pleasure of her incestuous sexual awakening.
"While in men it is possible to have a tendency to inflict pain on the women they love," says Havelock Ellis, "it is still easier to trace in women a delight in experiencing physical pain when inflicted by a lover, and an eagerness to accept subjection to his will. Such a tendency is certainly normal."