All Comments on 'Strangers of the Flesh'

A woman's account of her defloration by an experienced man is one of the standards in erotica. Usually it is not done well - filled with cliches - the almost mandatory progression from blow job to cunnilingus to intercourse. The author skated along the edges of this stereotypical approach, but avoid it - and had the right pacing, the right amount of patience. Nice twist at the end. Not clear about the virgin's motivation, but what the hell - few, very few, stories deal with that at all well (one is the scene in Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP)

The second person approach usually turns me off - doesn't add anything - story would have been better either first or third person