Foreword
"Psychoanalytic investigation teaches us that many, perhaps most children, at least the most gifted ones, go through a period beginning with the third year, which may be designated as the period of infantile sexual investigation ... The investigation directs itself to the question whence children come."
Thus Sigmund Freud in high-flown academic language tells us what every four year old-indeed, any three year old-knows. The two young protagonists of An Orgy For Mom could certainly tell us that children want to know where babies come from, and that they make every effort to find out. Our young heroes would also deny Freud's theory of the "latency period"-that is, the idea that from about five years of age to puberty children are not much interested in sex and make little effort to find out about it. Ron and Jon Worth, the fourteen-year-old boys featured in this novel, know better. But while their knowledge is perhaps more up-to-date than Freud's, the reader might not consider Ron and Jon "normal" children.
Ron and Jon are the products of a broken home, which in itself is not so unusual in modern America. What is "abnormal" about their childhood is the almost complete lack of guidance and discipline they received from their parents, so that the boys reach the age of fourteen with no clear-cut moral principles and no emotional or physical inhibitions. Many American children can, alas, be called "undisciplined" or "bratty," but Ron and Jon go beyond this. Working as a team, absolutely loyal to each other, they get into various kinds of mischief which would make the average parent shudder; and because they are adolescent boys, with all the developing instincts common to that age, most of their mischief involves sex.
How did they get that way? What factors produce the undisciplined and unruly youth of modern society? In general the experts agree that lack of firm parental guidance is the major cause. This is easily shown in the case of Ron and Jon Worth, whose mother abandoned them as infants, and whose father lacked the energy and courage to keep them in line. On the death of their father, the boys go to live with their mother, Trudy, who reaps the consequences of their formless unbringing. Trudy not only finds that the boys are unmanageable, she also discovers herself-much to her horror-helplessly slipping into an incestuous involvement with her own sons. What the boys need, and have always needed, is a strict and consistent father-figure in their lives, someone to pattern themselves after. It is only with the appearance of such a man that Trudy and her sons are saved from physical and emotional degradation.
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