Newly discovered sexual curiosity and willingness, the Arabian Nights, the "Scheherazade" Symphony, neglect of an art dealer father, and the lusts of a charismatic symphony conductor all come together for fourteen-year-old American Evan in the back of a limousine in a Nice, France, seaside park.
A small community, very tightly-knit and controlled, stuck in the north woods and isolated from certain laws and regulations, has determined that proper sex education is a great deterrent to crime. They create a requirement that all children, just prior to entering high school, are given in-person instruction in all forms of sexual activity. The teachers, hired by the community, are recent college graduates who serve for three years as instructors.
A young male college student notices that a coffee shop is only employing pretty young women. He disguises himself as a girl to get a job in the establishment but soon discovers that the girl he has become must surrender her virtue to remain employed.
When Clay's life partner since he was fourteen, Mustafa, who owned a Turkish restaurant in Berlin, dies, Clay brings his remains back to the Anglican church in Izmir, Turkey, where the priest, Father Thomas, initiated Mustafa when he was fourteen. Thomas introduces Clay to fourteen-year-old American-Turkish altar boy Rifatt, who needs attention and someone to take care of him.]
When Paige is sitting in class fantasizing about her professor, the urge overtakes her and she decides to make a quick get away to the bathroom for some relief. What she doesn't know is that someone noticed her secret.
When Portuguese priest, Padre João, headmaster of a Macau Catholic school in 1934 discovers that a handsome, blond student, Clayton Bryant, whose parents work far away, is interested in a life of being covered by men, the priest doesn't condemn him, he helps him do what he wishes. After selling his virginity to a Chinese Macau Triad chieftain and then helping himself, Padre João gives Clayton over to be taken to serve men in the Bitten Peach male brothel.
Leslie Melton and her Mom are having their first ever, mother-daughter talk. From this day forward, their lives will never be the same, and their love for each other will continue to grow and grow, as they meet and make new friends, and lovers. One new friend is an old Chinese man who knows everything about everything. Leslie learns a lot from her friend Bin.