Meet Brad, a twenty-ish college graduate working in the advertising field. He is a small man with small hands, tiny feet, short stature, and a timid soul. Blessed or cursed with a soft, elegant face more suited to a woman than a man, Brad has deep-seated fears—some he is aware of, while others he does not even know exist—not yet, that is. Then there are the desires—he doesn’t know about those either or perhaps, more to the point, won’t own up to them.
Fourteen-year-old, homeless Santiago finds a home as a "giving privileges" mascot at a firehouse where all of the firemen are randy for fourteen-year-old boys.
Male-perspective bisexual: NY doctoral student, Aiden Macallum, is in an open marriage of convenience with older Columbia U English professor Sandra Gainsworth. They both fall for New Zealand author Bram Overby, who invites Sandra to take a sabbatical at his hedonist artists' colony NZ beachfront house. Sandra accepts, Aiden tags along. Both become sexually embroiled not only with Overby but also in a community where everyone is doing everyone else and everyone wants to do Aiden.
Bob has a hard life but luckily his brother Terry takes care of him.. that is in more ways than one! Little by little Terry turns Bob into a girl and Bob begins to enjoy it!
The coming of age ritual of the Ravenclaw tribe on the Colombia River was for a high chief or god to initiate four-teen-year-old candidates to be warrior scouts and then to turn them over to a warrior for training and seeding for four years. Ravenclaw's high chief sends out a search party to find a dark god to initiate his son, Pony Boy. They come back with the studly black slave, Jonas.