I have written the stories of this book for my personal pleasure, to recreate experiences that I would like to have lived, but did not have the good fortune to do so. However, each one has been generated by a grain of reality perhaps just from a fleeting glance or a situation never fully resolved. The subject matter of each of these stories is erotic. From a young age I have been a voracious reader, and the erotic genre has always interested me. The percentage of time devoted to these readings, has been increasing over time, and is now overwhelmingly dominant for me. However, more importantly, I have come to appreciate the powerful role of sex in human behavior in general and in myself in particular. As long as our fundamental needs for food and water are met, the desire for the erotic prevail over, or at least color, all other concerns. The survival of the species after all depends on this drive. Sex is at the crossroads between survival and extinction. There is a strong component that was suppressed in my childhood for social and cultural reasons. Over time this restraint has be released. I believe that a certain kind of physical sex is much more important for men than for women. For women, a primary drive and source of satisfaction is the protection and welfare of offspring. Male sex, on the other hand, is linked to power relations. Usually a man by his nature wants many partners, and may seek them indiscriminately. This might include homosexual contacts. For those who have found the latter, they have also discovered a liberating freedom to pursue sex in its pure an unadulterated form unfettered by responsibilities or consequences. Sex with like-minded males is pure and hard. The stories I write must first be exciting for me and also, I hope, the reader. They are in that sense, stories to be read with only one hand. I realize that not everyone has the same sensitivity; indeed each one of us is unique. However, it is very important for me to know that someone gets pleasure by reading my stories. The knowledge that another person has been touched and excited with the images that I created, makes me feel an intimate contact with them. As situations and feeling are described, I hope they evoke responses in others as they did myself. This contact through words and images may be more profound and exciting than direct physical contact itself. Sex, like many other things, lies in the complex and wonderful organ that is our brain. It excites me to think that someone masturbates with my stories, and that I am the one who is providing him pleasure even though my hands never touch him. I sought to create sensual scenes that may be both delicate and powerful as well as representing profound truths. In the stories that follow some situations and emotions reoccur. Some might say in a obsessive way. So be it. They include first times experiences, but predominantly they are predator-prey relationship, dominant and submissive roles, initiator and initiated situations, master and apprentice associations, and relationships with marked age differences. All the younger characters are of legal age. I also like the play of light and shadow, between desire and fear. My stories depict the dualities of sex, smooth and rough, curve and edge, cold and heat, resistance and surrender. The relationship between pleasure and pain are also explored. Whether they are derived from biology or culture, I believe they lie within all. Active and passive roles are traditionally stated as those of the male and the female, but I submit they are present in all of us to a greater or lesser degree. I recognize both types of sensations in myself and I presume readers will too. The position between the two poles depends on the person, but the two are inseparable and cannot exist without each other. In these stories, the staging sketches are intentionally cinematographic. To accompany the images I attempt to create, I suggest background music to your own taste.