Foreword
"Inside every jolly fat lady is a slender, lonely girl who is waiting to be freed." The anonymous writer of those words might have had Helen Hornaday in mind when he took pen in hand. The heroine of DIET OF SEX epitomizes the individual who is prone to every emotional problem mat can occur with the pill-taking dieter. She is an attractive woman of middle age who gained weight early in her marriage and subsequently lost her exposure to the total sexual experience before her desire for sex had matured. Confined in layers of fat, she is sexually retarded. Once freed of her obesity by her diet pills, it is not surprising that she is swept off on a sexual binge of astonishing proportions.
A lifetime of sexual learning and experience is compressed into just a few days of Helen's life once the floodgates of her overwrought emotions are opened. With the loss of her excess weight, her entire life is changed, and with the change in her life comes the inevitable changes in the lives of those around her. In the span of a few days she goes on a headlong sex binge in a wild effort to make up for everything sexual she feels she might have missed. In so doing, her blossoming sexual appetites carry along those around her, regardless of their age or even their sex. Helen is not by any means a madwoman nor is she a sexual pervert. She is a woman who has been released from the prison of obesity that has confined her for so many years and who quite understandably goes on this sexual binge to celebrate her freedom.
It is interesting to note that this is the perceptive work of fiction by Joyce Morrissey, who last year dieted away over fifty pounds.
-THE PUBLISHERS