Seeking the Forbidden

When Liz Steele was in the sixth grade, her daydreams were about a romantic Prince Charming. A jarring awakening to the world of sexual needs happened when she was 15. Working after school as a file clerk, her boss asked for sexual favors. She was able to rebuff him, but she continued to seek Prince Charming. At age 21 she moved to San Francisco. There, she met E. B. Braun, who had left Minnesota. In high school a car ride ended up out in the country with Karl getting rough and insistent, but E. B. was able to get away. At age 18 she had an unrequited crush on her college professor, so she decided to move far awayto San Francisco. The two girls, Liz Steele and E. B. Braun, became good friends. They had successfully resisted the advances from cads, curs and cool cats. Now each girl launched a search for the right guy motive: a more mature (read that as sexual) relationship. They meet David, a lawyer; Jack, social worker; Lance, used-car salesman; Wayne, radio sound-mixer. They meet Clark, who spent his Oklahoma childhood as a tomato-picker, but after his Army stint he opened a bar in San Francisco. They meet Lee, caught between gunfire in Macao, his father sent him from Hong Kong to San Francisco for a college education. The two girls had no idea that during their adventures, they would observe the effects that unprotected sex, racial prejudice, alcoholism, prostitution, violence and death would have upon their lives.