On my trip recently through Europe and,especially, Scandinavia, I have met several people. Usually stories(and unusual stories) and information is exchanged during the sauna visits and even business meetings are commenced in the sauna sometimes,of course,in the company and enjoyment of the necessary booze, mostly beer that is. O,how I love the sauna.
I had been to Sweden and the other Nordic countries before and according to me, the only places you can come to a complete stop and clear the overly tired and not so anymore perfectly working brain. I went totally unprepared on the plane, just some necessities as some clothes and a toothbrush and shaving kit and that was about it. I do not speak the language, but I can get by and most people, if not all, speak a good word of English. Some wet Holiday this turned out to be....
Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for fourteen-year-old boys. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, fourteen-year-old Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.
Z's biography continues. She remains a sex worker joining SU, an always nude, sexually-oriented resort. She takes her job as a 'companion' seriously. While working there she makes and helps a friend. Later on in the story an outside of SU opportunity with another companion and Z's sister generates serious income.