The kagaijin are a race of people who share a common ancestor with modern man, but took a different evolutionary path - a stronger one, in most respects. Prince Tsuyoken is their newest king in training, but every king needs a queen, and he has his sights set on one.
Travis's parents are New York Philharmonic musicians. They take a year's sabbatical with the Munich Philharmonic and take Travis to Germany with them. In a new country in the summer without friends nearby, 14-year-old Travis takes to a bicycle and thinks of the sexuality of a boy turning into a man. His parents give him no attention. His violin teacher, Werner, is happy to give him attention, pointing out that the German age of consent is 14. Then farmer Gerhard gives him attention too.
Rob and Jane are the senior class brainiac nerds, and also the victims of a cruel competition devised by the football jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends. Rob doesn't fare too badly in the competition - his manhood sees the cheerleaders having second thoughts about him. Jane, on the other hand, gets hurt badly by one of the football jocks. Rob and Jane are thrust together to work on a project, and they become closer due to their shared experiences....much closer and intimate.
In July 1941, journalist (but really military intelligence agent) half English-half Burmese Gordon is dispatched to Burma to convince the artist who deflowered him at age fourteen and set him into having the fetish too to return to England to work on the war effort. The artist is in Burma because there are easy boys there and he tries to convince Gordon to stay. Gordon indulges in his old fetish and is also pursued by a Japanese sadist.
The husband has always wanted to see two women having sex especially if one of them was his wife, then she confesses its similar to her secret desire, but there are surprises instore for him but not what he expected.