Foreword

This recent article began by sawing that the swinging sexual revolutionaries of the '60s, who pioneered swap parties and gave birth to the Sexual Freedom League, have had it. They are now saying that "sex doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't have an emotional zing, according to a panel of social scientists."

In this novel, the author has described a situation very much like those in the interviews-but with, at least one hopes so, a big difference.

The protagonists are Helen and Max, happily married but suffering from the marital "blahs" and who have just given up swinging; their teenage son, Tim, and his younger sister Sally.

The reasons for Helen and Max quitting the swinging scene are unclear, but probably the reason for that is the couple themselves are uncertain. All they know is that they've had it.

So they take off in their camper for a vacation, a typical American family, in order to make the break easier. In the course of their travels various temptations arise, but the parents are able to resist them as long as they come from outside the family group. What they can neither resist or defend is their tremendous physical attraction to their own children.

They fight, but not hard enough, and the inevitable happens.

Perhaps they are looking to recapture their own youth, and perhaps the outside sexual contacts have left them vulnerable to forbidden incestuous activity.

While these four seem happy enough, in their new world of sexual pleasure, obviously the day of reckoning is yet to come. Even as a temporary solution, theirs is not one recommended by either law, moralists or psychologists. Nonetheless they blunder happily into what Max thinks of as a classic example of "togetherness" as recommended by women's magazines.

No attempt is made here either to glorify or condemn, although the bizarre family scene is probably not unique. If anything will save them, it is the honesty with which they face life, or so the husband and father thinks.

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