way. The dictionary gives three senses for seemly: Attractive or agreeably fashioned; Decorous or conventionally proper; and Appropriate or suited to its purpose.
With respect to appropriateness, Seemly Sex Stories range from the humorous to the inspirational, but all concern human sexuality. So they are clearly appropriate.
They are also seemly in the decorous and conventionally proper sense. For, while they treat sex candidly, they do not do so explicitly. There is nothing pornographic or erotic in any Seemly Sex Story. Of course, different persons’ opinions of conventional propriety differ. A few consider frank pornography decorous. At the opposite extreme was the abbot of the monastery where the great biologist Gregor Mendel did his epochal research. This monk thought Mendel’s studies were decidedly indecorous because they concerned the sex of plants. The stories in this collection aspire to be in the middle of this range.
Finally, there is the principal sense of seemly, attractive and agreeably fashioned. Like every author I exert my every effort and ability trying to make these stories seemly in this regard. But like every author, I must await your determination of the degree of my success. Since both of us will be pleased if you find them attractively seemly, I very much hope you will.
Bobby B.
Other titles in the Seemly Sex Stories series:
CONTRACT LOVE: 108,124
Mike fell in love with his lady dentist. She resisted. So he signed her to a contract whereby he would teach her to play golf. He hoped golf would lead to romance and then to marriage, but she insisted their relationship was strictly tutorial. Everyone at the country club was guessing what made her spurn such a "catch" of a husband. Why did she resist?
COULD IT BE RAPE?: 29,010
Many unmarried women who wish to have a family use an anonymous donor whose sperm are used to artificially impregnate the hopeful mother. But this is a costly medical procedure. If a woman, wishing to bear a child but not this expense, gets some man to do the job in a natural way, surely the act could not be construed as rape. Or could it?
COUNTY LINE: 3,000
Slim was glad to give the business consultant of his friend, Mick, a lift back to town. But the three hour drive was an extended, extensive pain because the consultant is an obscene loudmouth who offends everyone's every principle of decency. Slim found a way to give the jerk his deserved comeuppance.
FAMILY FEUD: 9,890
The good conservative American town was totally disrupted by the abnormal amorous goings on of a couple outsider couples. But of course, once such unconventional lovers left town everything would settle back to good conservative American normalcy. Or would it?
GIRL-S-Q: 4,500
Hank was the do-everything octogenarian who kept the GIRL-S-Q striptease club operating. He was also the dancers' always helpful friend and emergency banker, thereby incurring the gratitude, affection and thanks of them all. But did the dancers thank the old man to death? And did he care?
IMPOSSIBLE LOVE: 76,140
Lyle loved Edith with an obsession bordering on madness. Indeed it was madness, for it was impossible. Edith is an historical figure who died decades before Lyle was born. Nothing but madness could have led anyone to suppose Lyle’s passion could ever be satisfied. But perhaps with madness an impossible love can be consummated. Dr. Kendrick would have to determine if it had.
JONES SMITH: 5,040
Jones Smith, in today’s euphemism, would have been called intellectually challenged. Yet he was enormously generous in giving what he could. His untimely death led all his beneficiaries to learn just how abundantly, if perhaps improperly giving Jones Smith had been.
KELLY'S BAR: 6,700
Stag is a Kelly's regular who claims to be so sexually adept that, unlike most men who must marry to get sex, he simultaneously shacks up with two women. He ridicules Kelly's cook as sexually inadequate and therefore subordinate to his wife. Could the cook even the score?
LADY LOVERLY’S CHATS: 9,530
It was a reasonable business decision for billionaire Lady Loverly to use part of her family’s country estate to build an upscale suburb. But what in the world led her to reveal the intimate details of her youthful sex life at the estate to all the new community’s lady residents?
LAST WISH: 8,110
Dr. Carl Frieder was facing his terminal disease alone. As a nonbeliever he did not have even the consolation of religion. Dr. Christine Heuber is a Lutheran minister who with agape, Christian tolerance and love, filled the last part of his life with succor and love.
LOVE, MARRIAGE AND PROSPERITY: 7,330
Love and marriage can lead to great happiness. But can they also lead to prosperity and great wealth? For Mr. & Mrs. Clark McMurry Clarke they seem to have so done.
MOTHER’S LOVE: 4,670
Some husbands' libidinous urges lead them to engage in extramarital sex. Such behavior can destroy a family. But in an unique and completely unexpected way Milford March's extramarital dalliance had the result of creating one.
PRAYERS AND ANSWERS: 3,870
On the average, male humans are taller than females. So on the average, husbands are taller than their wives. But must it be so? Can a short man woo and win a tall woman? Lyman resolved to try, but did he have a prayer?
SHORTY: 4,170
Shorty was appropriately named for he was the shortest man in the ranching valley. However he definitely was not small, weak or unmanly. And some people in the valley thought his physical attributes were ideal.
THE BEDROOM INVITATION: 2,530
It is unwise for a gal to accept dates when she knows they will always lead to a proposition. But if the dating man pays a lady for her time, and pledges to always accede to her refusals of his bedroom invitations, how can an unemployed girl refuse?
THE BEST LAID PLANS: 3,680
Coworkers Grace and Gary have libidinous interests in each other. But their company has a strict policy against such employee fraternization. With luck, determination, careful planning and assiduous adherence to their plan they sought to circumvent the company policy. Could they succeed?
THE KNACK: 26,160
Harry loved only literature: Until he met Gretchen! Then the impoverished, unemployed and unemployable literature nut had to figure out how, with nary a cent for dating, to win the girl of his dreams; and how to support her if he ever did. Harry’s inept impoverished attempt to court Gretchen almost got him drowned, but did it work?
THE PROPOSAL: 5,650
Bob had fallen in love with Sylvia, but because she had never allowed any intimacy greater than a goodnight kiss, he didn't realize he had, nor that she reciprocated his love. Sylvia, however, invented an interesting and appropriate way of informing him of their mutual attraction.