NIL-103 A Shot in the Corral

FOREWORD

One of the strangest of human enigmas is the confident attitude of each succeeding generation that they have not only discovered sex, but added new and unusual embellishments hitherto unknown. By some odd, seemingly inherited quirk, the average mortal in any given age presumes incorrectly that their forefathers treated intercourse and other related sexual activity with something akin to disgust, and engaged only in that copulation necessary to reproduce.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Granted, there are few historical documents available relating to sexual participation in the distant past, and little literature survives to tell us what occurred in the darkened bedrooms of our ancient sires. However, based on what little data we do have, and intelligently considering the natural human drive for pleasure, it is logical to assume that there is no area of sexual enjoyment that hasn’t been engaged in since the centuries before Christ.

Since the beginning of the golden age of the printing press, first the church, then the state, then a combination of both have tried to totally restrict any printed allusions to, or documentation of, sexual practices, which precluded the passing on of such information except by word of mouth. While the descriptive verbiage was handed down from age to age, the sex acts and the deviations performed by our ancestors were not, forcing us to only speculate.

The ban on all references to sex in literature until only recently would lead the unsuspecting to believe that all our fathers and mothers, and grandparents going back through the years, were paragons of virtue, as were their peers. No one of honor frequented whorehouses, engaged in extra-or pre-marital sex, and there was no oral copulation save among the savages and the seamier populace. Among the gentility, sex was pristine and pure, and virgins of either gender were the rule and not the exception.

On the very face of it, that anomaly is ridiculous and farfetched. Mortals, being blessed (or cursed) with an intrinsic desire for self-gratification, could not and would not assume the role of celibates in any era, regardless of social strictures. Their strong inherent sexual drives would propel them into rapturous trysts, no matter how clandestine they must be. As hunger and thirst must be appeased, so must the sex urge. It is normal, and natural.

In this book, the author shatters the false illusions that were previously given of the old west in books and movies, portraying characters and events in the true light of what actually might have transpired. No punches are pulled, the fairy tale concept is cast aside, and the reality of people in the late 1800’s is depicted incisively without hiding under a cloak of juvenile morality.

This is not a story for the reader of commerical Western pulp and pap. It is strong, virile, and blunt. So, if you have true grit, let’s swing in the saddle and go!