The coming of age ritual of the Ravenclaw tribe on the Colombia River was for a high chief or god to initiate four-teen-year-old candidates to be warrior scouts and then to turn them over to a warrior for training and seeding for four years. Ravenclaw's high chief sends out a search party to find a dark god to initiate his son, Pony Boy. They come back with the studly black slave, Jonas.
Fourteen-year-old Stephan swims like a fish and looks like a Michelangelo statue as he plays in the sea off the Lido di Venezia beach in Venice in 1924. As he stretches and dries off on the sand, he is ogled by expatriate American banker Jeremy Biddle, German doctor Reinhard Gleason, English patrician Sir Clarence Hailley, and French priest Father Franz. Each of the men aches in want for the boy and each of them has him--but at a price.
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.
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.
By 1920, the Chinese authorities in northeast China's Manchuria respond to the vast influx of White Russian refugees flowing into the city of Harbin, escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, by disenfranchising the refugees, making them nonpersons. They are on their own to thrive or die. Beautiful, small fourteen-year-old boy Pyotr survives by selling himself to an auction house serving men with a boy fetish and unusual sexual tastes.
The deflowering of the virginity to being mounted by men of a fourteen-year-old boy as beautiful as the Italian vineyard worker Paulo is so precious that, with care and lack of scruples, it can be sold more than once.
Bounty hunter Jacob Harding tracks down an escaped slave, fourteen-year-old Nat, from a Virginia plantation. He wonders why the plantation owner is offering such a high fee to get Nat back, but after Harding encounters the boy and finds out how he can be used, he doesn’t wonder anymore.