Chapter Nine
Sex Show Tonight
One could feel the sense of anticipation in the air the minute you stepped into the dimly-lit room. The air was thick, warm with heat of close-packed, partially-dressed bodies. Mingled with the fragrance of perfume, and the haze of cigarette smoke, was the unmistakable sweet smell of hashish. But there was something else that permeated the air that night — a keenness, a sense of excitement, of anticipation, a simmering sensuality that grew more palpable as the evening wore on. Tonight, s*x was in the air!
In a moment the tinkling of small bell hushed the crowd. The lights went off; the serving girls scurried forth, moving furniture, clearing a space in the center of the room just at the foot of the stairs which descended from the upper floor. Now, from some
