In only the last two years in America has a marketplace developed for the interchange of ideas, experiences, and fantasies in the sexual area. Consequently, much literary material, previously hidden and or suppressed, has come to light. In particular, Victorian fiction has been uncovered that shows those people were human after all (how, we might have wondered, did they ever manage to make babies in all that stuffiness!)

A Ravished Maid, recently gotten from a private collection in London... the same collection, incidentally, which yielded “Frank” and I—is certainly one of the most graphic and fast-moving stories to appear. As usual, we know nothing of its author, but then, he was having such a good time he probably had not opportunity to worry about his reputation.