Foreword
It is not enough to merely admit that the sexual revolution is here; the popular media have done a good job on that level. But there is more to it than merely publishing photographs of streakers, or alluding to the fact that many young people are choosing not to marry.
Young people have always been in the forefront of sexual experimentation their youth and their freedom from social pressure insures them this role.
And so to relate the sexual revolution to the nation's youth is begging the question. Of course they enjoy more freedom than their parents not only on the sexual level, but on almost every level.
But the importance of the sexual revolution if it has any-lies in how that social change relates to the middle class, the middle-aged the backbone of the nation.
Obviously, it is there that change must occur if that change is to be immediately relevant to think of teenage behavioral patterns as little more than group conformity would be a mistake.
In this novel, mixing as it does America's young and the middle-aged, we are given a startling insight into the workings of the sexually liberated mind.
And while at first glance we feel that we are dealing with a simplistic version of a familiar story, we soon see that there is more here than meets the eye. What at first seems to be a fantasy society devoted to sexual pleasure soon stands revealed as an extension of the world we all know too well, the world which is all too willing to be corrupted by desire; desire which has gone bad, desire which can spoil any scene no matter how pleasant and natural that scene might be.
Sex between the generations is this why it is forbidden?
-THE PUBLISHER