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312 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2013
Our eyes are soiled by the soft haunches and scarlet petticoats of women. These female beauties are good for nothing save to give pleasure to old men in lands where there is not a single good-looking boy. If a man is interested in women, he can never know the joys of pederasty.So that should give you an idea of the cultural divide you're working against when you pick up this book. It's tough for us modern folks, whose culture is dead set against cross-generational homosexual relationships, to really be comfortable reading stories like this. Usually when you hear stories about a grown man and a teenage boy, it's immediately classified as "abuse." Images of windowless panel vans, sweaty gym teachers, NAMBLA meetings rise up and.... Yeah.
Korin was very beautiful: his young, untroubled face was like a serene moon in the autumn sky; his black hair was lotus, and his voice had the love-murmuring of the nightingale amid young peach blossoms.
The moon is disgustingly modest
under a great cloud
When I am waiting,
And when he comes
She spitefully breaks forth