Foreword
Sex is a healthy aspect of modern human life.
A simple statement, isn't it? However, knowing something to be true intellectually is quite a different story from knowing it in the "gut."
Psychiatrists and psychologists the world around have been trying to convince us that the above statement is true. Physicians have found that nothing can relieve tensions better than sexual expression. Sex appears to be a "miracle" cure for problems ranging from over-weightness to relief of repressed aggression.
More and more persons are discovering that what these doctors have been saying for years is true. Many public commentators have remarked on the loosening of tight bonds on sexual activity. National magazines now readily publish articles and pictures concerning nudity, bisexuality, and the exchange of sexual partners by consenting adults. Advertisements for "swap clubs" abound in newspaper classifieds. The former President's own commission agreed that the changing American morality is, on the whole, quite healthy.
The discovery of sexual freedom has often been the pathway that leads many to a rediscovery of the self. Rather than hiding in fear behind the barbed-wire fence of guilt, many persons today are accepting themselves as they are, and this is only the first yet most necessary step in accepting others as they are.
Over fifty years ago, poet D.H. Lawrence said it best when he penned the following verse:
"That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.
That I must have the courage to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women."
-The Publisher