<p><em>From the author:</em></p><p>You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but&mdash;oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent?</p><p>Oh.Well, never mind.</p><p>Dave and Nancy Grantland look for all the world like happy couple leading a comfortable suburban lifestyle. And Lucy King, the regular babysitter for the Gavilans next door, looks for all the world like a normal teenager.</p><p>But Dave&rsquo;s lost interest in sex with his wife, as he increasingly becomes obsessed with the desire for a much younger partner. Not a Lolita, exactly, but someone a few years under the age of consent.And Nancy&rsquo;s recalling her college days as what we&rsquo;ve since learned to call a LUG. (That&rsquo;s Lesbian Until Graduation. But you knew that, right?)</p><p>And Lucy&rsquo;s ready for sexual experience, but with whom? Someone more knowledgable than her oafish boyfriend?</p><p>Dave finds a caf&eacute; in the West 20s where a man named Hassan can supply anything he wants. Nancy finds a job working for a woman named Bobbie, who can supply anything she wants. Lucy finds a man who&rsquo;ll teach her what she wants to learn&mdash;and what she doesn&rsquo;t.Can you see where this is going? Well, along the way you&rsquo;ll get to look over Dave&rsquo;s shoulder as he watches a pornographic movie, courtesy of Hassan.</p><p>I&rsquo;m not sure which book was the first in which I employed this device, but the editors at Nightstand thought it was a great way to spice up the books, and I was encouraged to include such scenarios in future books. Well, you know, you didn&rsquo;t have to tell me twice&hellip;A Google search advises me that in 1959, two years before this book appeared, Gold Medal published Marijane Meaker&#39;s suspense novel, The Twisted Ones, under her pen name of Vin Packer. My guess is that it&#39;s a better book than mine, but who&#39;s to say you won&#39;t enjoy them both?</p>