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.
As a fourteen-year-old orphan boy moves west with a wagon train after losing his parents and being taken on by a wagon master with the proviso the boy lie under him, in an encounter with a young, virile savage, the boy learns there are deeper pleasures to experience from ravishment.