H.R. Kaye (1)

This book, although it contains a preface extolling the virtues of the erotic novel, and invoking such spirits as Alexander Trocchi, quickly degenerates into something closer to a sleaze novel. It starts well enough, with the promise of being a variation on the frequent theme in which a young (school-age) boy is introduced to the pleasures of sex by an attractive young woman. The boy also has a male friend who is already experienced. Although the plot maintains this predictability for a while, the young woman (the eponymous maid) turns out to want the boy more as a sex slave than a pupil, and she beats him to the blood before allowing him more standard sexual access. The boy’s male friend then proves to be sleeping with the boy’s mother. This would not necessarily move the plot outside its predicted course, but then a third boy is brought in, a masochist who allows anal penetration, and the whole scenario blows wide, with the maid shooting the mother and her young lover before she and the boy become fugitives from justice, being drawn into a number of unsavoury situations. The transition in atmosphere from that of gentle seduction to mayhem and vice is shocking. It is in the course of this transition that the book acquires its sleaze, and loses a certain ‘respectability’ in the process.… (plus d'informations)