The New Sexual Underground

“As John Warren Wells points out, the past decade has witnessed the triumph of the sexual revolution. With the bedroom as the battlefield, and with scarcely a shot fired in anger, we have in uncountable ways revised our manners of thinking and acting about intercourse (premarital, extramarital, and plain marital), homosexuality (male and female), and those forms of behavior which in turn have been called perversion, deviations, and preferences...

“In an extreme example of reportorial honesty, [Wells] manages to convey more effectively than I have ever seen it done before the whole atmosphere of the sex orgy... I would go so far as to label this chapter as a milestone in the annals of sexologic literature. It is undeniably unique in my experience, an extraordinary subjective interpretation of an extraordinary sexual phenomenon, lucidly seen through the eyes of an articulate and incisive observer.”

— from the introduction by Benjamin Morse, M.D.