Delwen Jones, a pioneering female constable in early-Sixties Birmingham, finds herself assailed by literally ravishing erotic visions of past lives while on an undercover assignment. Worse yet, the visions all seem to feature prior versions of the very criminal she's pursuing in 1961.
A very short story with no sex. Carol is a woman who catches her husband cheating and devises a plan to end their marriage. As things sometimes happen, plans go awry and in the end everything works out for Carol.
"History is more or less bunk." Henry Ford
"Well this history isn't." Holly Rennick
"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
"But could we give this one another run-through?" Cindi Barton
Times are a changing. With the recent 1978 Equal Opportunities Act in Victoria, there are now even more policewomen attached to Senior Sergeant 'Wild Bill' O'Donoghue's 'Uniform Branch' - Sergeant Tess Gallagher and 'Trainee' Constable Susie Raynor now joining the select cadre of local policewomen. And then, there's 'Charlotte the Harlot' and the girls at the Sunbury 'Halfway House' to deal with too! A follow on from Kelly Maree O'Rourke and Joanna Louise Parrish...
The continuing cycle of fourteen-year-old boys and men in the business of photographing nude and sex scenes for various levels of publishing and special subscription audiences plays out in Europe in the first twenty years of the century.
Some memories, experiences, attitudes, and fantasies from my early teens, with some present day wishful thinking and regrets about those years, tagged on.. You figure out what's what. LOL.
Argos Flavius, master painter of panels in sexual pleasure chambers for elite ancient Greek men enjoying boys, is living temporarily in Rhodes to paint panels for the Baths of Dionysus, where he sees and is drawn to a fourteen-year-old blond Greek boy slave. He loses the connection but later sees the boy on a balcony of what must be a male brothel across the skyline of Rhodes from Argos's own balcony. Argos goes in pursuit of the boy, both to paint and to possess him.
At the Rowanberry Wifely School for Girls, bedroom activities is one of the major lessons. A classroom of girls are taught the motions of sex through a live display. Afterwards, one of the girls gets some private time with the instructor in his suite.