A chance meeting between a married man and a priest becomes a game of confessions and penances. As the married man recounts his youthful forays into masturbation and his later more sophisticated sexual adventures, the priest introduces him to BDSM. After the married man's marriage crumbles, his life is turned upside down by shattered illusions, until he meets another person who loves him. Although he is more at ease with his new love, he is still not able to give up his clandestine adventures and seeks out even more radical sexual thrills. The book is a compendium of activities of what men can do alone or together, but it is not for the prudish or easily offended as it contains graphic language and multiple depictions of sexual acts.