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While the negative aspects of egotism and ambition are all too apparent, it is also true that for a man or woman to function adequately and maturely in a society, it is necessary to have a certain amount of healthy self-confidence.
The successful businessman, the woman who rises in her chosen profession despite tremendous odds, the serenely happy and efficient housewife—all are imbued with the self-confidence necessary for them to skillfully carry out their chosen tasks. Without it, they would find it difficult to do well, and would possibly fail.
When a man or woman lacks self-confidence on a sexual level, it can be apparent in every aspect of their lives. It is often necessary to be sure of one’s identity as a man or woman in order to be successful.
Christine Sanders is a woman who suffers from a lack of sexual self-assurance. Buried for twelve years behind the drab, stern facade of her librarian job, Christine at last realizes that it is a waste for her to hide her natural beauty and sensuality. Thus it is only when she learns to appreciate herself and she at last breaks free of the deeply imbedded strictures of her moralistic upbringing that she becomes a confident and successful adult.
THE LUSTY LIBRARIAN is a novel about a woman’s struggle to free herself of deep-seated fears and inhibitions and take her place as a fully functioning, independent and knowledgeable adult.
Christine Sanders’ mind was wandering from her work again, wandering back to that long-ago day when she had lost her cherry. She stopped herself, knowing perfectly well that she had no business letting her attention stray from her work. She had, after all, been entrusted with the considerable burden of managing the Centerville, Indiana Public Library, a task that few had handled as efficiently as she. It was an important position, an important service to her community, or so she had tried to tell herself these twelve years. On days like this, she found it hard to lie to herself.
There was really nothing important about cataloging books, hushing noisy students, and levying library fines, and Christine knew it, knew it in spite of herself. She had settled into her uninteresting life in Centerville as an escape from reality, and she knew that, too. Her escape from reality had been successful at first, until the pain and loneliness of her hollow existence had eaten through her hard shell to the sensitive and loving woman that was the real Christine Sanders, the Christine Sanders no one in Centerville had been allowed to know.
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Note: This story is the same as catalog number PR-3027 in the original publications (a duplicate).