The book details the sexual awakening and erotic adventures of “Charlie", a young man born into upperclass British society. The original edition was published in four volumes. The first two (this book) detailing Charlie's introduction to sex and his exploits up to his teenage years. Volumes three and four were about his more mature years. Today, it is often published as two seperate books.

In this book, written entirely in letters, we meet a young Victorian couple who are, at least in the beginning, profoundly ignorant of anything to do with sex. Then they meet a “woman with experience”, and their sexual education begins. They are soon awakened to their amorous longings and describe exactly how that happens in a series of letters. This book is for adults only, since the descriptions describe a wide variety of sexual activities very explicitly. Like many books of Victorian erotica, this book is a fascinating look at the “other side” of the Victorian era.

This is the story of a young Victorian girl named Laura, and her sexual awakening, at the hands of both her new lover, and her brother. All three become very close indeed, and the story chronicles a wide range of their sexual experiences and adventures.

This book is intended for adults only. It is an erotic story from the Victorian era, written by Edward Sellon, a prolific writer of such erotic stories. The hero, or perhaps "anti-hero", of this novella is a sensual surgeon, who lovingly tends to the ladies of his practice, offering sexual experiences to his female patient as as well as medicine. As is the case with most erotic books of this period, it is extremely "bawdy" and sexually explicit, no doubt as a "pushback" to the extreme puritanism of official Victorian society.

Captain Charles Devereaux, who is very happy in his post in Britain, where he can be with his loving and very amorous wife, is sent to the North West Frontier of India for a prolonged posting. Although it was his intention to remain faithful to his wife, he soon finds temptation is too much for him. For the first half of the book, he describes his erotic adventures with Lizzie Wilson, his "Venus". Then he is transferred to a more remote outpost and meets the three lovely daughters of a colonel.