A futuristic version of Gulliver's classic voyage, describing societies with reproductive practices that are close to human but also have some poignant difference. Four are described in detail: The agony of getting pregnant, Desiring a woman is sick, Wait until you're a man, Losing your virginity is deadly.
Fourteen-year-old Jim Caldwell's father apprenticed his second son to go to sea as cabin boy to the HMS Royal Sovereign's captain, Sir Edmund Doman, with the best intentions of giving his son a future in the British Navy in the waning years of the eighteenth century. Little did he or Jim know what a "sailors' poke" was and how that would apply to Jim.
It's open season on beautiful male tail in Hollywood--even when the prey is only fourteen--especially when the boy is as angelic but willing and needy for coupling with men as Eddie is. And it's so very difficult for parents of a boy like Eddie to protect him from spiraling down into the world of depravity with sexual predators when he wants what he should be protected from and when they are steeped in obsession with their own careers and perverse sex themselves.
A kidnap arranged by a husband goes wrong when the wrong woman is grabbed; butt he group manage to reticfy the problem and have twice the fun in doing so.