"In their confessions, our beautiful horizontales relate simply, and in every detail the adventures which led their first steps to what we may, in caesarian language call "The Passing of the Rubicon.""

With Lord Halifax absent their palatial abode, his lover and courtesan Diane de Bledor plays host to six of her good friends and confidants for an evening of revelry. It is soon suggested that the ensemble reveal in utmost unexpurgated detail the manner in which each lost their virginities.

From lesbian awakenings replete with vigorous tribadism and gamahuching, to the unexpected group...

"The Exploits of a Young Don Juan" recounts the sexual coming of age of Roger amidst his entourage of naive and not so naive woman while his father is away on business. And Roger surely plays while the cat is away, possessing a virility and manhood to match, as he seduces those around him into the most compromising scenes and situations with his lascivious will.

From the author who brought us "Eleven Thousand Rods," a work banned in France until 1970, Guillame Apollinaire succeeds in emulating the Libertine ideas and doctrines gleaned from the Marquis De Sade. Told in a wonderfully...

"May's Tale" recounts the sexual coming-of-age of our curious young protagonist as she is tutored in the physical arts of love by all the libidinously willed individual's about her.

At the hands of her school tutor, her groundsman's son Robert, and a mysterious sapphist called Kate who grew up on a West Indian plantation, May will learn all manner of forbidden deeds and to give over every part of herself to the pursuit of the wildest of orgiastic heights.

With gamahuching, tribadism amongst both sexes alike, and Kate's tale of interracial indiscretions adding a piquancy to the...

In the same deliciously corrupting tradition as the Victorian erotic classic, "First Training," "Astrid Cane" tells the story of a young girl in the midst of self, and sexual, discovery.

At the tutelage of her friend and dominatrix, Julia, Astrid will learn the sweeping art of the rod, birch, cane, and palm, in one orgiastic scene after the other. Lost in wild abandon, she will be dominated and, in so being, will learn to bend all, men and women, young and old alike, to her every libidinous and lustful whim.

Written anonymously in 1890, "Astrid Cane" is a delicious example of...

This English written pastiche of erotica set in Russia recounts the life of a young peasant girl sold into servitude to Princess Katerina. What Grushenka doesn't know, however, it that the palace of Prince Alexey Sokolow is one where maids and serfs are paired to fornicate in controlled conditions and often under the wanton eyes of the Royals.

It is not long before our protagonist's reticence is forgotten; the naive girl overcome by the sheer ecstasy of her many lascivious encounters. Lost to her new-found lust, and developing a talent for all deeds and devices sexual, she will rise...

Flossie Eversley, being deliciously naughty, risque, playful, headstrong, and forward, knows exactly what she wants the way she wants, and exactly how to get it. The very minute she and Captain Jack Archer set eyes upon each-other, they both know they want nothing more than to devour one another in true gamahuchingly-debauched fashion.

Ever eager to please and equally eager to share, she directs Captain Jack's talents towards her friend and guardian Eva Letchford, who is only too willing to take considerable pleasure in taking his considerable member. And when the deeds are done, they...

When the impoverished parents of young Lucille are thrown a financial lifeline by the wealthy and debonair Lester Raleigh, they are more than happy to consent to any terms the rakish gentlemen wishes to impose; even if those terms require that their daughter remains in his custody as security for the loan. And given their liberal use of the whip and birch on the poor girl, they willingly agree that the gentleman administers any punishment he sees fit while she is in his care.

What follows is Lucille's exposure to Mr Raleigh's den of debauchery, the rooms of his mansion estate given over...

When Adelina is caught in the most compromising of positions, she is soon sent to a convent school for wayward adolescents in far off France.

The first part of this gem describes our female protagonist's first tastes of lust as she embarks on a torrid and forbidden love affair with her tutor. Their gradual draw to one another is wonderfully erotic, each attempting to hold back but unable to do so. The old monk, eager not to spoil Adelina's virginity, introduces her to all those forbidden pleasures that one of his proclivity are want to practice.

The next part of the book is presented...

Colonel Spanker has one simple proposition; that flagellating upper class ladies is immeasurably more pleasurable than committing like acts on those of lower standing and prostitutes. Thus, for the benefit of those members of the Society of Aristocratic Flagellants, our lascivious lecturer decides to put his thesis to the test, the subject of said experiment being one extremely unfortunate Lady Ponsonby.

What follows is positively Sadian, as each stroke and spank and poke is told in sumptuously graphic and uncompromising detail.

Described by the Victorian bibliographer Henry Spencer...

Inspired by the presumed poison of De Sade's violent and licentious masterworks 'Justine' and 'Juliette', Nicolas-Edme Retif (also known as Retif de la Bretonne) wrote this antidote; a work which morally defends the debauchery therein graphically depicted and shows us that even the most libidinous of lifestyles can have a happy ending.

Enter Cupidonnet and Madeline; siblings with a singular passion for all manner of deed and device. Amongst maids, Marquesses, Lords, and lawyers, the pair will seek pleasures unparalleled and spend profusely therefrom. Front and back, all will saviour the...