When fourteen-year-old American Brian visits his parents on U.S. diplomatic assignment to Bonn, Germany, over the summer school holidays not long after the end of World War Two, Brian is taken with--and taken and initiated and trained by--the mysterious, bitter ex-German soldier, Gerhard, who has become the family's handyman and gardener and who lives up a spiral staircase from the family's apartment.
Denny and the baseball coach he worships, Coach Wallace, have been building up to a homerun all summer of a different variety than on the baseball field. Coach Wallace decides they should make some money out of Denny's first time before they enjoy themselves with each other, and the day Denny hits his first bases-clearing homer on the baseball field, he's sold to Mr. Austin for a first-time initiation session in a motel room.
Fourteen-year-old Brian, an adventurous member of a group of fourteen-year-old boys moving around to countries where fourteen is the age of consent and dancing the pole and servicing patrons in gay bars specializing in boys of that age, dances the pole in a Cape Verde gay bar and walks out into the night and into the arms of cruel, dominating ex-Marine stallion Butch.
Fourteen-year-old fatherless boy, Chris, is summering with his mother at their Fenwick Island, Delaware, beach cottage. Chris's mother encourages him to be have contact with the men living on either side of them, randy Andy Murphy, a muscular builder from Allentown, younger then his rich wife, on the one side, and war veteran Ned Brice, living in his house full time and in a wheelchair, on the other side. As the summer ends, Chris receives sex education from his neighbors.
The small-farm valley in Idaho on the western slope of the Grand Tetons was devoid of fit men in 1943. They were all off fighting the war. The job of getting in the harvest and taking care of business was left to the women and older men and boys too young for the war, like 14-year-old Jimmy and Sam. Sam is being covered by the town lawyer who would also like to cover Jimmy. A disabled veteran, Jack Fox, is added into the mix. He is quite able for the women and for Jimmy too.
An author of teen (and sex) novels, photographer of sexy men and boys, and connoisseur of fourteen-teen-year-old boys sees an older man who arouses him and finds a fourteen-year-old version of him on an Internet dating site. The inevitable, with a quirk, results.
The lives of two fugitive brothers of successive Phoenician kings become entwined in the villa of the Greek philosopher exile Phaedo, where one fugitive is Phaedo's fourteen-year-old catamite, Hiero, and the other, Prince Xander, brother of the current Phoenician king, is a hidden guest. Hiero and Xander's lives as sometimes lovers continue to intersect over the years of trying to gain the throne.
Dex, the fourteen-year-old mulatto slave boy a New Orleans gambler wins and uses for sex starts out for California with the gambler in the gold rush era. When Indians attack their stage coach outside Laramie, Wyoming, Dex is thrown off the stage and is gang banged by the Indians before being saved by a hunky French fur trapper with an appetite for fourteen-year-old boys.
Fourteen-year-old mulatto slave boy Sweet barely settles into the rice plantation, Riverside, up the Cooper River from Charleston, before his new master is dealing him to Charleston gambling house and male brothel owner Chance Drake to pay off a gambling debt.