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.
Howard, Lord Hardwick, escapes the nuisance of the 1931 recession-driving collapse of the British Labour government by taking an extra constitutional retreat to his seaside villa on the coast north of Brindisi, Italy, to indulge in his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys.
Udo, a fourteen-year-old German boy, is taken in by his aunt and uncle when his parents die in an airplane accident early in the summer. It is a house where his uncle is dying and his aunt is absorbed in that. It is too late in the summer for Udo to enroll in summer activities in Munich, and his aunt and uncle have no children of their own. Udo, lonely, turns to Herr Klein, suffering a loneliness of his own, who Udo has met in the park, and the summer unfolds from there.
The small-farm valley in Idaho on the western slope of the Grand Tetons was devoid of fit men in 1943. They were all off fighting the war. The job of getting in the harvest and taking care of business was left to the women and older men and boys too young for the war, like 14-year-old Jimmy and Sam. Sam is being covered by the town lawyer who would also like to cover Jimmy. A disabled veteran, Jack Fox, is added into the mix. He is quite able for the women and for Jimmy too.
Early 20th-century English novelist Bryan Bancroft hadn't been aware of the undercurrents of fetish sexuality in his novels until a literary review pointed them out. Thus it came as a surprise to him when he found himself between the thighs of Thomas, the ripe 14-year-old son of Lord Chartwell. The scandal sends Bryan abroad, where, in Morocco, he fights his new-found urge for 14-year-old boys in isolation from England. He finds, though, that these aren't urges he has to fight in Tangier.
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.