You can tell this book was written in the 70's, when so much trash was published. Rosemary Rogers books were much better in the 80's, which is true of a lot of authors in the genre. I'm guessing what happened is that, with the new freedom to write scenes and storylines that would have been banned just a decade before, they tended to go overboard, "forbidden fruit syndrome", like young people escaping from strict parents. Thankfully, they grew up. ( )