User:Crucibles of Passion

Crucibles of Passion, an erotic novella, can be described as a one-of-a-kind erotic narrative. It resists comparison with other erotic works, except in the citation of it belonging to the confessional literary genre of authors like Frank Harris ("My Life and Loves") and Henry Miller ("Tropic of Cancer"). It relates the very personal adventures of Sid Fletcher, a sexually repressed and unhappy divorced father of two boys. The beginning of the book sees him leaving Paris where he has tried and failed to live the bohemian life he always aspired to and write the Great American Novel.

On the passenger freighter headed towards his home in the USA, he meets three carefree, happy-go-lucky guys who are on a sex tour of the world. They persuade him to join them in the next stop over in Rome. The time period is the late 1990's.