My Gawd! Is that allowed? Can you write that? The overarching theme which links the thirteen stories in this collection is sex in its various forms, sexuality, the roots of sexual development and expression. If it were a film it would be rated R: adults only. But not rated X. This is not erotica. That's the fun of Fairbanks' clever writing. It sometimes gets very 'close to the line' but then it backs off. There are only a couple of jolts in retrospect...