M-104 The Sausage Factory

Introduction

No one can read this novel without acquiring a deeper insight into the private world of the homosexual. K. B. Raul has painted a fascinating portrait of a money-hungry, security-starved young-man on the loose, and how he is corrupted into seeking his goals through selling his body.

The story of Rick Talbot is a shocking report of homosexuality in America today—particularly of homosexuality as a formula for success.

The normally sexed male is often baffled by the phenomenon of inverts who can pursue homosexual patterns without a deep feeling of revulsion. But as this book reveals, once the initial shocks have worn off for the seduced male, repetition blunts any sense of repellence. He becomes conditioned to homosexuality as a normal (for him) method of sexual expression, often to a point of no return. Rick Talbot enters the open door of the homosexual world voluntarily, if hesitantly; but when he later must respond sexually to a girl who seeks to give herself to him, that door threatens to slam shut behind him. The sound would be a frightening one to the normal male who values his heterosexuality as the very essence of his self-respect.

The book skillfully underlines the emotional dilemma of many homosexuals who are confused about how far they dare let their homosexual feelings follow their homosexual acts. Most homosexuals yearn for a close emotional relationship, and know that this is impossible for them with women. Yet they dread growing too fond of the men they go to bed with, for fear of becoming too dependent upon them; or out of dread that they will be financially or physically abused, or blackmailed.