Saturday, January 18, 2014

Silverberg's ORGY MAID: Teen Rape, Incest & Lesbianism


In Orgy Maidby Robert Silverberg (pseud. Don Elliott), twelve-year-old Lonnie Garth is continuously raped, sometimes via double-penetration, by her brother-in-laws. And the nymphet's drunken father-in-law forces himself upon her as well.

But Lonnie's rapes weren't anomalies. On page five of the book it states:

In the hill country of Tennessee, where Lonnie Garth was born, they have a quaint little folk saying about virginity. “A virgin,” they say, “is a five-year-old girl who can outrun her daddy and her brothers.”

Lonnie was a fast runner. That’s how come her virginity lasted all the way to the age of twelve. And, at twelve, she was about the oldest virgin in town.

On page thirty-one Lonnie was told, "You been getting loved since you were six, I bet. Your brothers and your old man got there first."

Eventually, just like a number of women in The Secret Garden, Lonnie fantasized about being raped by her brother-in-law. For example, in the novella it states "[...] deep down, she had wanted to be raped by Gary Holston, she had wanted to be known by some man not her husband, somebody with Gary's elemental ferocity and force."

Unsurprisingly, twelve-year-old Lonnie even began to relish lipstick lesbian sex after her brother-in-laws forced her to have sex with a "slim, sixteen-year-old redhead named Peg Marron" who had "[...] lavishly voluptuous buttocks of a Rubens nude".

Orgy Maid is considered to be in the vintage sleaze genre, but you may be shocked to learn that the novella was written by Robert Silverberg (pseud.Don Elliott) who is a Brooklyn born graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in English Literature and a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. 

I've reviewed other mainstream teen and adult novels such as Lauren Myracle's TTYL and Philip Roth's The Humbling that rivals Orgy Maid in its graphic teen sex scenes. Therefore, an additional question is, who determines which books are considered sleaze and which are considered literature?

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