Foreword
Since the days of ancient Greeks-when Oedipus seduced his own mother-two misconceptions about incest have prevailed:
Young and defenseless women are the primary victims of this lecherous attention from their male relatives. Incest is a deviation from the norm that occurs entirely in the lower levels of modern day society. Both of these ideas are pure bunk. The author of this exciting and fact-filled novel graphically illustrates just how older, frustrated women from any walk of life will find a safe, if unconventional, outlet for her sexual drives. This outlet may be in a conveniently placed young male relative, his friends, or even total strangers. Yet once the outlet is found, the desire to continue the illicit relationship becomes compulsive by nature.
Perhaps this is a byproduct of the new liberation of the American female, or perhaps we should take the Freudian view and call it the result of "penis envy" or the "castration complex." Perhaps the spreading practice of incest-now more than a mere fad in our society-is a healthy part of the modern sexual revolution.
These items, however, must be considered by the meticulous rigors of scientific investigation rather than by the less accurate speculation by the arts. The author in general has always seemed to be one step ahead of the scientist in recognizing and exposing certain aspects of social behavior, but the reader must judge the morality of that behavior himself.
The novel which follows is a stark and honest depiction of one of the last forbidden sweets of human sexuality: the desire of an older woman for the son of her own sister!
-The Publisher