Here are lovers and maids, rakes and whores from texts known only to connoisseurs of the forbidden: the innocent but naturally sensual Bella in The Autobiography of a flea * the wild and wanton Victorian lady known as Eveline * the precociously flirtatious Flossie, a Venus at Sixteen * the over sophisticated Tony and Casilda here laid bare in A Gallery of Nudes * the passionate Romans, Spartacus and Clodia, whose love is destined to spark a revolution in Roman Orgy - and, of course, the mysterious Victorian Philander Walter, author of the notorious confession My Secret Life.