 "Women's
Ward"
by Orrie Hitt
Softcover Library, Inc., 1966
The back cover reads: "Diagnosis--NYMPHOMANIA!
And because of her incorrigible sexual behavior, young Irene Conway had
to go into an institution. There, to her amazement, she found even greater
excesses raging than she had known on the outside. Male attendants peeped
at her, violated her privacy, forced their attentions on her. Other females
assailed her. Irene was suppose to be the kind who enjoyed such unrestrained
license--and sometimes she did... But gradually a pattern emerged from
the assaults. Was Irene being deliberately persecuted--even to the point
of rape? Was she sane after all, merely too warm-blooded, too responsive
to passion? If so, a man virile enough to cope with her might also be able
to cure her!"
With a set-up like that
you would think this would be a nice juicy women-in-prision-type book about
the hard life on the inside. Nope. It's actually about a male attendant
named Mike Steele who actually get more action in the course of the story
than our committed nympho Irene. And he's actually suppose to be the hero!
He not only makes his was through Irene, but her sister as well! Overall,
Women's Ward is a strange mixture of a Mike Hammer novel
and One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest.
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