An Academic Pursuit: A Modern Shorts Contemporary Romance

Regency romance author Jean and her husband spice up their sex life via seduction role-play fantasies based on characters in her books with Jean playing the virginal heroine. The tables are turned when Jean finds herself alone on a research trip to Bath, England where she is propositioned by an eighteen-year-old virgin college student in need of her expertise. She’s tempted, but what will her husband say?

“An Academic Pursuit” is a contemporary erotic-romantic short story featuring an unexpected vacation fling between an older woman and a younger man, the coming-of-age of a virgin college student, and a married couple negotiating polyamory. The story first appeared as “An Age Play” in the anthology Sweet Confessions: Erotic Fantasies for Couples, published by Cleis Press, 2011.

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