title: Exposures
author: Jacquard, Joanne
description: Richard Carradine is an arrogant, testosterone-fuelled man of military stock who responds positively to every situation. He spectacularly loses his virginity to a glamourous whore and from that point on can leave neither her nor any other woman alone. He is still a very young man when he meets the cutest little virgin whilst on holiday abroad and proposes marriage. An unexpected coup in her homeland intervenes. They never meet again. While at university and throughout his military training he maintains a steamy affair with the whore to the satisfaction of both participants. They part only when his service duties take him abroad. On these trips he is sufficiently content with one night stands. Carradine meets the eyes of Pat across a crowded room. He beds her within 24 hours and weds her within 3 months but not before he has been side-tracked by the virgin, Elise Harper, making a bee-line for him with only one thing on her mind. Pat is the ideal wife for Carradine, strong, down-to-earth, and solid, determined her man will want for nothing and determined to keep him at all costs. Carradine will never be a one-woman man but he does find enough satisfaction from the three in his life - his amazingly active wife, his whore, who is available when needed, and his mistress, who takes him for a ride as often as possible. He takes his career down the political path but gets caught out by the obsessive behaviour of Elise's one-time assistant and, although it is founded on a misunderstanding, there is enough truth to force his resignation. Can Richard Carradine moderate his sexual appetite and maintain his public profile? It does not quite work out like that.