The perfect gift for that special person in your life. This book features short stories, essays, novel excerpts, and factual reports about love, sex, romance, lust, and the realm of human desire. Inside its pages you'll find tales both dark and humorous, romantic and passionate, weird and wonderful. Among the many offerings . . . an ageless devotion that defies both science and logic . . . a drug that heightens the intensity of the human orgasm . . . an animated warrior princess who springs to life out of a television screen . . . a mythical sea maid who guides and protects the first colonists headed for Maryland . . . alien observations of human sexual practices . . . young love so strong it transcends time . . . and the legendary Robin Hood's encounter with a mystical forest nymph.