American opera set designer Clay hasn't messed around with fourteen-year-old boys since his Oxford days with friend, Italian opera impresario Lorenzo. A pandemic closes down Clay's work but Italy is up again and Lorenzo invites Clay to Naples to work with him. Lorenzo has a seventeen-year-old boy toy and two fourteen-year-old houseboys on offer.
The ponyboy fetish becomes popular in an international gay men's enclave on the resort coast of Honduras. Older Englishman Martin and his younger black bull Jamaican lover, Felix, have made a ponyboy out of fourteen-year-old Cesar, who they have taken from a Honduras slum. Cesar rebels and flees, only to be taken as a ponyboy by an old Austrian man, Reinhard, who heads up the Jockey Club, whose members all have the ponyboy fetish.
A mid-twenties former male model American is sent by a New York/Milan fashion house to Hanoi, Vietnam, to open a factory producing fabrics to pass off as expensive material for fashion house designs. He's frustrated by the bureaucratic runaround he gets in the old, Asian city he hates until he connects with a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys he'd enjoyed in Milan.
Fourteen year old Harry has to move to a new school where he and his younger sister befriend Gene and a French girl, Mary. On a ski trip to France, Mary hatches a plan that lets them explore their desires
Cory is a 21-year-old sent to serve in Drena, after three years of grueling training. Although he is meant to remain pure, as Masters only use sex slaves to vent off their lust, his Master, a handsome dangerous man named Xavier, the ruler of the beautiful city, takes him on the first day in the household. From there, Cory gets trapped in a world of lust, treachery, intrigues and political machinations.