First Sentence

"... Assuming you have bought this book and seek to get your money's worth, you will read it at least in part thus involuntarily becoming a captive audience; when (or if) you finish it you will probably conclude there is much to he said for capital punishment with particular reference to the author though here I want emphatically to state that this polemic is a posteriori rather than a priori autobiographical. I will attempt in the following pages to put into perspective a relatively unknown area of human activity which has been affrightedly neglected in pornographic and popular literature though not in classical . . ."