In this excerpt from a longer piece of work, multiple characters' lives intersect near an interplanetary brothel.

A man in LA meets a younger man online who reminds him of his ex. After a wild night, the two go home together and the man discovers a love for dominating his submissive partner.

A sixteen-year-old Catholic schoolboy and his crew plot to save up for a night at a local whorehouse. He wrestles between parching lust for the nameless female essence and soft, wavering love for his sweetheart, finally feeling the two sensations meld into one when the experience is through.

A young man invites a tourist to his favorite London café and recounts the strangest affair he’d ever had with a woman he picked up there; a woman who challenged and changed him. A young, beguiling man picks a tourist out of a group and invites him to see the real sites of London, not the tired and disappointing spectacles. He takes the tourist to the Café de Paris, an old but grand establishment with the promise of dancing and young ladies. The man admonishes his companion to loosen up, stay and drink, and while they wait for the evening to unfold the man begins a story.

After a frustrating date—upset by the way even sex between women is shaped by patriarchal forces—a lesbian in NYC has sex with a male friend from college, determined to prioritize her pleasure over her learned instinct to satisfy the interests and egos of men.

In Bulgaria, two men who met online play submissive and dominant roles in an innitially-consensual sexual encounter that turns into a violent assault.

A young college student is visited by his girlfriend for his birthday when they learn that they’ve unfortunately outgrown each other since he’s been away.

As a strictly sexual affair stretches past its expiration date, a woman and her taken lover struggle to define their burgeoning feelings for each other.

Consumed in a disturbing relationship with an older woman, a girl from Ohio slips through the impoverished side of New York City in search of an experience that she thinks will make her a woman in what she knows is a man’s world.

In downtown Houston, a teenage boy hustles for an older pimp and navigates an increasingly intimate relationship with one of his clients. He also keeps the pimp’s HIV diagnosis a secret from the rest of their crew.