Foreword
Among teenagers, sex is like a virus that strikes without warning. One minute, they blush at an innocent good-night kiss. The next thing that happens is they are frantically masturbating themselves under the covers at bedtime and are blushing because they were almost caught.
Although this book deals with the rampant sexuality that seems to envelop most teenagers like some sort of disease, this book is based on the even more important problem of sexual sadism.
For many people, too many for comfort, sexuality once begun leads ultimately to a series of excesses because the individual's sexual appetite requires inflicting pain on others. In some people, this might be caused by nature-a physical deformity that makes normal sex impossible for the individual. But sadists have been prevalent in human society since the dawn of time.
Pain and sex are intermingled. Sexual ecstasy frequently contains elements of pain-particularly to women-that are not noticed until after the sex act is completed. Physiologically, this is understandable. Women must be prepared to withstand the enormous pain of childbirth without being permanently traumatized by it. And nature concedes the point by mingling pain and pleasure in such a way that the pleasure of sex and the joy of birth can be indulged again and again without creating a resistance to either one.
Though not a psychology text, this novel is an insight into some of the perversities of human sexuality.
-THE PUBLISHER