Exactly how steamy is this story?
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Baseball may be America's pastime, but this novel is for mature Americans only. With all the naked locker room scenes, Mike's tendency to use his Schwartz as a barometer for his current state of mind, multiple oral sex (on-page) and anal sex (off-page) scenes between Guert and Owen, and Pella's tendency to sleep with a man the first night she meets him, there's a lot of carnal shenanigans going on here. But like the no-big-deal locker room nudity, all of the sex is very casual. Pella cheats on Mike with Henry, and—aside from one outburst—it's barely a blip on Mike's sexual barometer. Guert has never been with a man before, but he and Owen slip easily into lovers' roles. Perhaps sex to everyone in this book is like baseball—just another game.