Description from the 1964 original dust jacket:

Never before has a novel there to explore with such piercing honestly the "borderline" stage of transition from "straight" to "gay."

This is the story of Ted Randall, ardent body-builder, a human statue molded to perfection by the summer sun. He meets Ian, a hot-blooded Adonis who wants Ted for himself…who will do anything to tear Ted away from the arms of voluptuous, sensual Eileen. And there is Jerry, the curly-headed youth who is the only one Ted can turn to in his confusion

Inexorably, Ted is drawn toward the "gay" set as he and his companions mingle with the leather crowd in the beach beer bars. Strange forbidden acts occur on the moonlight beach, in the tiny rooms of the beachfront hotels and boarding houses, amidst the garish clamor of the amusement park.

Edwin Fey probes into the very depths of masculinity and virility revealing every thought, every act in vivid detail. Page by page he writes an all-too-true story about the decision every young man must make...involuntarily or otherwise.