The undergrowth of literature / Gillian Freeman ; with a foreword by David Stafford-Clark.

"The Undergrowth of Literature is a woman's-eye view of what has hitherto been an almost exclusively male domain. With gentleness, wit and candour, the author makes a serious attempt to analyse the whole range of publications devoted to sexual fantasy in the English-speaking world. Her book will go a long way to allay the fears of those who see pornography as something wholly evil and corrupt, since the absurdity of much of the material she analyses shows that its chief function for those who turn to it may be a playful one and, in the deepest meaning of the word, innocent."