Cry to heaven

A. Rice

Guido Maffeo, born a peasant, is castrated at the age of six to preserve his soprano voice, and becomes a star of the opera by the time he's a teenager. However, like many castrati, he loses his voice as he enters manhood. Although not considered one of Rice's pornographic novels, it stands out because of its constant, graphic, and romantic descriptions of homosexual sex, mainly between teenage castrati boys. Additionally there are affairs with "whole men" such as a Roman cardinal and the Florentine count.